This course should enable the student to:
- Understand the laws and the principles that govern static.
- Perceive the basic concept in the field of this subject.
- Model and analyze static engineering problems.
- Lay the ground for various courses in engineering.
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A student who satisfactorily complete the course should be able to:
- Recognize common equilibrium problems.
- Grasp the condition for transitional and rotational equilibrium and form the proper equation of equilibrium
- Use the pictorial representation of equilibrium situation in terms of free-body diagram.
- Realize the difference between equilibrium force and the resultant force.
- Distinguish between the various forces and stresses arising in a problem such as the internal, external, tensile, compressive, direct , shear and other loading conditions, etc.
- Define centroid, center of gravity and center of mass of a rigid body and appreciate their location and significances.
- Define moment of inertia of mass and area and grasping methods of computing each about any axis.
- Handle various structural problems and utilizing sections and joint methods.
- Distinguish between various types of friction.
- Analyze beams in terms of shearing forces and bending moment under various boundary conditions.
- Carry out laboratory experiment to verify the conditions of equilibrium of forces, analyze beams.
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