COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS AND ARCHITECTURE

MECH 2 DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES

MODULE 1: DYNAMICS
UNIT 4: fundamental equation of kinetics
 UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES
In this unit, here are the following desired learning outcomes:
✘ Differentiate Mass and Inertia
✘ Relate force, mass, and acceleration

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 Force, Inertia, and Mass
FORCE INERTIA MASS
push or pull exerted on property of a particle the quantitative
a particle. The only part to offer resistance to a measure of a particle’s
of a force system that change in motion. inertia.
will cause the motion of Although all particles
a body is the have inertia, they do
unbalanced force not offer the same
(resultant). amount or degree of
resistance.

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Consider this 𝐹𝐴 𝐹𝐵 𝐹𝐶 k = constant of
= = = … = 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐶 proportionality
experiment: 𝑎𝐴 𝑎𝐵 𝑎𝐶

Apply an external force 𝐹

Constant C is the measure of = 𝐶 = 𝑘𝑚
of different magnitude to 𝑎
resistance of the particle to be
the same body, each will accelerated at a rate a after The units of force and
cause a corresponding being acted upon by a force F. acceleration should be
acceleration. Dividing selected such that k would
each force to the be taken as unity.
acceleration of motion, 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 ∝ 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐶
the ratio will always be 𝑘 𝑚 = 𝐶 𝐹
=𝑚
equal to a constant 𝑎
value C.

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 Let’s review some concepts

“Inertia is a body’s property to

resist motion when acted 𝐹
upon by an external force; =𝑚
𝑎
mass is the quantitative
measure of inertia”

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 thanks!
Any questions?

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