PHY 3110: Engineering Mechanics

Prerequisites
PHY 1620 or PHY 1940

Corequisite
PHY 3112: Recitation

Primarily deals with the statics of particles and rigid bodies. Vectorial methods are used extensively. Topics include equivalent systems of forces, equilibrium of a rigid body, centroids and centers of gravity, distributed loads, analysis of trusses, frames, and machines, shear and bending moment in beams, and cables with concentrated and distributed loads.

Credit
3 semester hours