This is the first-year, first-semester mechanics and thermodynamics half course for engineering students.
Coordinator
Dieter Geduld, RW James 3.05
Entrance requirements
Consult engineering handbook
Course outline
Vectors, kinematics, dynamics, work, energy, power, conservative and non-conservative forces, friction, impulse, momentum, collisions, rotation, rotational dynamics, torque, rotational inertia, rotational energy, angular momentum, Newton’s theory of gravitation, fluids, pressure, buoyancy, fluid dynamics, elasticity, elastic moduli, phases of matter, temperature, phase changes, ideal gas laws, heat, calorimetry, heat transfer.
Lecturers
- Dieter Geduld, RW James 3.05
- Spencer Wheaton RW James 4T4