Lecture 1; Course Outline and General Definitions

Dr. Othman Hassan

Course Outline
Instructor; Dr. Othman Hassan
Tel.: 088 241 1239
E-mail: othman.hassan@eng.au.edu.eg
Office hours:
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/drothmanhassan/home

Lectures: Tuesday from 10:00am to 12:00pm and

Wednesday from 8:00 to 10:00am

Tutorials:

Textbook: Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines, George H. Martin.

Waveland Press Inc. 2nd edition 1982
Course Outline
 Practical Evaluation;
Midterm1 20/60 End of March

Midterm2 20/60 Beginning of May

Attendance and 20/60 + To Be announced

Projects Bonus
Final 40 To be determined by the Faculty during
June 2014
Course Objectives
 The main objective of the course is to present
fundamental principles for kinematic and
kinetic analysis of mechanisms and machines.
 Kinematic and dynamic analysis of linkages
and machines is a principal step in the design
process.
Course Topics
 Velocities in Mechanisms by Instant Centers and By
Component methods
 Velocity and Acceleration Diagrams
 Inertia force Analysis
 Cams
 Gear Trains
 Flywheels
 Balancing of Rotating and Reciprocating masses
 Gyroscopes
1. Introduction
Divisions of Mechanics
Our area of interest

Mechanics

Classical or Newtonian Relativistic Quantum

For bodies with visible For bodies moving
size and speeds less For very small bodies
with speeds higher (the atomic scale)
than the speed of light than the speed of light
Engineering Mechanics
Important Definitions
 Momentum, is the multiplication of the velocity of a
body and its mass
 Rigid Body, is a body that does not deform under the
effect of forces
 Particle, is an object that has mass and no size.
Usually it is a good assumption if the problem under
consideration involves relatively large distances
compared to the size of the body.
Laws of Mechanics
 Newton’s first law
 Newton’s second law
 Newton’s third law
 Newton’s law of gravitation
 Law of transmissibility of forces, and
 Parallelogram law of forces.
Law of Transmissibility of Forces
 The state of rest or motion of the rigid body is unaltered if a
force acting on the body is replaced by another force of the
same magnitude and direction but acting anywhere on the body
along the line of action of the replaced force.
Parallelogram Law of Forces
 If two forces acting simultaneously on a body at a point are
presented in magnitude and direction by the two adjacent sides
of a parallelogram, their resultant is represented in magnitude
and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram which
passes through the point of intersection of the two sides
representing the forces.
Forces
 A force is completely specified if the following four
characteristics are specified;
— Magnitude
— Point of application
— Line of action, and
— Direction
Systems of forces