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ENGINEERING
MECHANICS
INTRODUCTION TO
ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Physics

Mechanics Thermodynamics Electricity

ENGINEERING MECHANICS
 Engineering Mechanics is the application of mechanics to solve problems involving common
engineering elements.

Mechanics

Rigid Body Deformable Fluid

 Statics of Rigid Bodies is the study of bodies at rest or in equilibrium.

 Dynamics of Rigid Bodies is the study of bodies in motion.

Kinematics, which is the study of motion without

reference force which causes the motion
Kinetics, which relates the action of forces on
bodies to their resulting motion.
FORCE
 A force is a vector quantity, because its effect depends on the direction as well as on the
magnitude of the action. Thus, forces may be combined according to the parallelogram law of
vector addition.
 Principle of Transmissibility states that a force may be applied at any point on its given line of
action without altering the resultant effects of the force external to the rigid body on which it
acts.
 Force is classified as contact or body force. Contact force is produced by direct physical
contact while body force is generated by position of a body within force field such as
gravitational, electric or magnetic field.
FORCE SYSTEM
Collinear Force
 Forces acts on the same line of action.

Parallel Force
 Forces that are the same angle to one another. Couple is a pair of of the same magnitude but opposite in
direction.
Frictional Force
 Forces that always acts in opposite direction to the applied force.

Concurrent Force
 Two or more forces are said to be concurrent at a point if their lines of action intersect at that point. Forces
can be added using the parallelogram law in their common plane to obtain their sum or resultant R.
Coplanar Force
 Forces lying on the same place
SCALAR NOTATION
 When a force is resolved into two components along the x and y axes, the components are then
called rectangular components.

Scalar Notation

where the scalars and are the x and y

scalar components of the vector F
RESULTANT OF THE FORCE
 The resultant force is formed by adding the resultant components using parallelogram law. We
can represent the components of the resultant force of any number of coplanar forces
symbolically by the algebraic sum of the x and y components of all the forces.
SAMPLE PROBLEM
1.)The screw eye in a is subjected to two force F1 and F2 . Determine the magnitude and
direction of the resultant force. Use Scalar Notation
SAMPLE PROBLEM
2.) Solve the horizontal 600lb force in Fig a, acting along the u and v axes and determine the
magnitudes of these components. Using Scalar Notation
MOMENTS
Force can also tend to rotate a body about an axis. The axis may be any line which neither
intersects nor is parallel to the line of action of the force. This rotational tendency is known as
the moment (M) of the force. Moment is also referred to as torque.

 The magnitude of the moment or tendency of the force to rotate the body about the axis O-O
perpendicular to the plane of the body is proportional both to the magnitude of the force and to
the moment arm (d), which is the perpendicular distance from the axis to the line of action of
the force. Therefore, the magnitude of the moment is defined as
SAMPLE PROBLEM
3.) Calculate the magnitude of moment about base point O of the 600-N force.
SAMPLE PROBLEM
4.) The rectangular plate is made up of 1-ft squares as shown. A 30-lb force is applied at point A
in the direction shown. Calculate the moment of the force about point B.
SEATWORK
1.)If the resultant force acting on the bracket is to be 750N directed along the positive x axis,
determine the magnitude of F and its direction .

2.) The cable AB carries a tension of 400 N. Determine the moment

about O of this tension as applied to point A of the slender bar.