EGN 3321 DYNAMICS

Course Syllabus
1. Course number and name: EGN 3321 Dynamics
2. Credits and contact hours: 3 credits / Three 50 minute lectures each week
3. Instructors or course coordinators name: Dr. C. Ghenai
4. Text book, title, author, and year:
Engineering Mechanics, Dynamics, Andrew Pytel and Jaan Kiusalaas, Third Edition, Cengage Learning, 2010, ISBN 13-978-0-495-2956-7 (or) Vector Mechanics For Engineers, Dynamics, Beer Johnston Cornwell, Ninth Edition,
McGraw Hill, 2010, ISBN 978-0-07-724916-8
5. Specific course information:
(a) Brief description of the content of the course (catalog description): This course deals with dynamics of particles
and rigid bodies, applications of free-body diagrams, Newton's second law, the impulse-momentum method and
the work-energy principle to solve dynamic problems in mechanical systems.
(b) Prerequisites: EGN 3311 Statics (a grade of C or above).
(c) indicate whether a required, elective, or selected elective course in the program: Required
6. Specific goals for the course:
(a) Specific outcomes of instruction (course specific objective): The objective of the course is to introduce the
physical principles to the analysis of particle and rigid-body motion problems.
(b) Explicitly indicate which of the student outcomes listed in Criterion 3 or any other outcomes are addressed by
the course. The learning outcomes of the course (and related ABET Criterion 3) outcomes are:
1. Students will be able to draw the free-body diagram for a particle or for a rigid body in plane motion. (a,e,k)
2. Students will be able to understand the basic concepts of force, mass and acceleration, of work and energy,
and of impulse and momentum. (a,e,k)
3. Students will be able to apply these three basic methods and to understand their respective advantages. (a,e,k)
4. Students will be able to explain the geometry of the motion of particles and plane motion of rigid bodies. (a,e,k)
5. Students will be able to effectively communicate in writing a report. (g)
7. Brief list of topics to be covered
Introduction, kinematics of particles and rectilinear motion
Curvilinear motion
Newtons equations of motion and angular momentum
Work and energy, power, and conservation of energy
Impulse and momentum, and impact
Dynamics of systems of particles
Kinematics of rigid bodies
Plane motion of a particle relative to a rotating frame and Coriolis acceleration
Forces and accelerations in plane motion of a rigid body
Principles of energy and momentum, and of impulse and momentum in plane motion of a rigid body
Updated: 8/13 By: Dr. P. Edgar An