ME 104 S2 Engineering Mechanics

(Spring 2024)
Instructor: Parag Tandaiya Total credits: 6 (2L+1T+0P)
Email: parag.ut@iitb.ac.in
Office: Room No. S18, Second Floor, ME Building
Out of class communication with the instructor: On MS Teams private message
Teaching Assistants:
1) Ashesh Singh (23D0888@iitb.ac.in)
2) Avinash Kumar Pandey (204100020@iitb.ac.in)
3) Sourav Goswami (214109002@iitb.ac.in)
4) Siddharth Pachori (22M1656@iitb.ac.in)
5) Parikshit Shukla (23D0911@iitb.ac.in)
 Attendance: On the SAFE App
 Classes:
[Slot #4] Mondays (11:35 am to 12:30 pm), Tuesdays (8:30 am to 9:25 am) and
Thursdays (9:30 am – 10:25 am) in LC 302
 Office Hours: 5 pm to 6 pm on Mondays
 Course announcements and material such as lecture slides/handouts, assignments will be
posted on course MS Team.
 Quizzes and Exams will be conducted offline in an examination hall. 1
Syllabus:
Module 1 (2 weeks): Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
Force Systems Basic concepts, Particle and rigid body equilibrium in 2-D & 3-D; System of Forces, Coplanar
Concurrent Forces, Components in Space – Resultant- Moment of Forces and its Application; Couples and Resultant of
Force System, Equilibrium of System of Forces, Free body diagrams, Equations of Equilibrium of Coplanar Systems
and Spatial Systems; Static Indeterminacy

Module 2 (1 week): Friction

Types of friction, Limiting friction, Laws of Friction, Static and Dynamic Friction; Motion of Bodies, wedge friction;

Module 3 (1 week): Basic Structural Analysis

Equilibrium in three dimensions; Simple Trusses; How to determine if a member is in tension or compression; Zero
force members; Beams & types of beams; Frames & Machines;

Module 4 (2 weeks): Virtual Work and Energy Method

Virtual displacements, principle of virtual work for particle and ideal system of rigid bodies, degrees of freedom. Active
force diagram, systems with friction, mechanical efficiency. Conservative forces and potential energy (elastic and
gravitational), energy equation for equilibrium. Applications of energy method for equilibrium. Stability of equilibrium.

Centroid of simple figures from first principle, centroid of composite sections; Centre of Gravity and its implications;
Area moment of inertia- Definition, Moment of inertia of plane sections from first principles, Theorems of moment of
inertia, Moment of inertia of standard sections and composite sections;

Module 5: Particle Dynamics

Kinematics of Particles (1 week): Rectilinear motion, Plane curvilinear motion - rectangular coordinates, normal and
tangential coordinates, polar coordinates, Space curvilinear - cylindrical, spherical (coordinates), Relative and
Constrained motion.
Kinetics of Particles (1 week): Force, mass and acceleration – rectilinear and curvilinear motion, work and energy,
impulse and momentum – linear and angular; Impact – Direct and Oblique.
Kinetics of System of Particles (1 week): Generalized Newton’s Second Law, Work-Energy, Impulse-Momentum,
Conservation of Energy and Momentum 2
Syllabus:
Module 6: Rigid Body Dynamics
Plane Kinematics of Rigid Bodies (2 weeks): Rotation about a fixed axis, General plane motion, Relative velocity and
acceleration, Instantaneous Center of Rotation in Plane Motion Plane Motion Relative to a Rotating Axes, Coriolis
Acceleration

Kinetics of Planar Rigid Bodies: (2 weeks): Equations of Motion for a Rigid Body, Angular Momentum of a Rigid
Body in Plane Motion, Systems of Rigid Bodies, Constrained Plane Motion; Energy and Work of Forces Acting on a
Rigid Body, Kinetic Energy of a Rigid Body in Plane Motion, Conservation of Energy, Plane Motion of a Rigid Body -
Impulse and Momentum, Conservation of Angular Momentum.

Kinetics of rigid bodies in 3 dimensions (1 week): Rotation about a Fixed Point, Angular Momentum, Kinetic Energy,
Equations of Motion, Gyroscopic Motion – Steady Precession.

Textbooks:
1. J. L. Meriam and L. G. Kraige, Engineering Mechanics, Vol I – Statics, Vol II – Dynamics, 6th Ed, John Wiley, 2008.
2. F. P. Beer and E. R. Johnston, Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Vol I - Statics, Vol II – Dynamics, 9th Ed, Tata
McGraw Hill, 2011.
3. R. C. Hibbler, Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, Pearson Press, 14th Edition, 2016.

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 Course Policies
Marks Distribution
End-Sem Exam Marks 40%
Mid-Sem Exam Marks 25%
Best 3 out of 4 Quizzes Marks 30%
Attendance Marks 0-5%
(for 0-100% attendance)

 Grading will be relative

Academic Integrity:
Students are expected to refrain from cheating and plagiarism while solving the exams/quizzes. In case a
student is found to indulge in any such activity, the matter will be referred to the Disciplinary Action
Committee (DAC). Such students are likely to get a two grade penalty or FR grade.