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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CAE 2511 - Statics

2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Statics is a study of force systems acting on rigid bodies not in motion. The analysis includes forces acting in and on beams, trusses, and frames in equilibrium. Topical content includes 2D and 3D systems, free body diagrams, pulley systems, friction, centroids, and moments of inertia. Analysis includes both scalar and vector methods. Students may not receive credit for both CAE 2511 and MEC 2010 . (prereq: MTH 1110 ) (quarter system prereq: MA 137, PH 2011) (coreq: PHY 1110 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Prepare free body diagrams and apply the equations of static equilibrium to particles and rigid bodies
  • Analyze statically determinate trusses
  • Calculate reactions and internal forces in statically determinate beams, demonstrate the variation of shear and moment with diagrams
  • Calculate reactions and hinge forces for statically determinate frames
  • Determine the location of an area’s centroid
  • Calculate the moment of inertia for an area
  • Solve problems involving friction

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Fundamentals of scalar and vector mathematics
  • Basic concepts of trigonometry and calculus

Course Topics
  • Introduction to statics, review of scalar and vector values and mathematics
  • Force systems, magnitude, direction, and component
  • Equilibrium of particles in 2D and 3D, free body diagrams
  • Moments and force couples
  • Equilibrium of rigid bodies
  • Areas, volumes, centers of mass, centroids, and distributed loads
  • Trusses: zero force members, method of joints, method of sections
  • Internal forces in members within frames and machines
  • Beams, reactions, shear and moment equations, and shear and moment diagrams
  • Moments of inertia
  • Friction

Laboratory Topics
  • Weekly hands-on exercises and interactive problem-solving sessions that reinforce the weekly lecture topics 

Coordinator
Dr. Edward Sippel



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