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Chap. 1 General Principles: What Is Mechanics? What Is Statics? Mechanics
Chap. 1 General Principles: What Is Mechanics? What Is Statics? Mechanics
Chap. 1 General Principles: What Is Mechanics? What Is Statics? Mechanics
Handout 1
Chaps 1 & 2
Fall 2013
Mechanics
Rigid-body
M e c h a n ic s
Deformable-body
Mechanics
St a t i c s
Dynamics Deals
Fluid Mechanics
2nd
3rd
Name
Description
A particle at rest or at constant velocity will remain so unless
Law of Equilibrium
subjected to an unbalanced force.
Law of Acceleration
A particle subjected to an unbalanced force accelerates.
Mutual action-reaction forces between two particles are equal,
Law of Mutual Attraction
opposite and collinear.
DFiller
Chaps 1 & 2
Fall 2013
DFiller
Chaps 1 & 2
Fall 2013
(number)
Vector
Orthogonal axes
Parallelogram Law
Drawing/illustration
Force triangle
Rectangular components
Cartesian vector
(specifies direction)
Dot product
Conventions:
z
+
+
DFiller
Chaps 1 & 2
Fall 2013
2-6. Resolve the force F2 into components acting along the u and v axes and determine the
magnitudes of th e components.
DFiller