Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

This is Dr. Levy’s EGM 3503 Spring 2012 Applied Mechanics webpage

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Here is the EGM3503 Syllabus

My office is in EC3474, and email address is levyez@fiu.edu

My tel. no. is 305-348-3643. My fax no. is 305-348-6007/department fax no. is 348-1932

Office hours: T and W 330-5pm.

Please note there is NO TA for this class. If you desire help in the statics portion of the class, please avail yourselves of the peer to peer tutoring that the college has. As always you can come to my office

Start working on Problems: Chapter 1 – 7, 18 and Chapter 2 – 13,28,31,44,49,70,77,89,99,115,118 also read Chapters 1 and 2 in your textbook

Start working on Problems: Chapter 3 -- 2,4,7,15,23,27,47,51,63,66 also read Chapters 3 and 4 in your textbook.

Chapter 4 problems -- 4,12,26,36,39,40,50,57,61,68,76,86,94,102,104,111,113,124,128,130,144,148,151,156

Please note that our Friday classroom has been changed to EC1107. This applies to the Friday class only!

Read Chapter 5 and do the following problems out of Chapter 5 – 19,26,32,40,42,46,54,61,64,70,80,94

Please let us meet for Wednesday 1/31/12’s class in room EC1107.

This material and all the linked materials provided, except where stated specifically, are copyrighted © Cesar Levy 2012 and is provided to the students of this course only. Use by any other individual without written consent of the author is forbidden.

This is the first announcement of an exam: February 10. It will cover Chapters 1-5 of your books.

Friday Feb 3 we begin chapter 6 of your books. Please make sure you read about the method of joints, method of sections.

Do the following problems out of Chapter 6 – 3,10,12,16,20,32,36,40,44,47,73,76,85,88,108,110

Do the following problems out of Chapter 8 – 4,6,12,20,21,44,49,67,69,72

Do the following problems out of Chapter 9 – 3,8,20,25,40,46,50,57,69,74

First exam was returned on 2/20: We had a review of chapter 3 as a result of the deficiencies found in the first exam and you are asked to re-do and resubmit by start of class on 2/22.

We had a review of Chapter 5 as a result of the deficiencies found in the first exam

We have reviewed problems involving centroids out of chapter 9, to include centroids of composite bodies and also used the method of Pappus-Guldinus to find volumes and surface areas.

This material and all the linked materials provided, except where stated specifically, are copyrighted © Cesar Levy 2012 and is provided to the students of this course only. Use by any other individual without written consent of the author is forbidden.

On 2/29 the re-tests were returned to the class. If you have not picked up your re-test in class, please pick up from my office. We also started Chapter 10 on moments of inertia. So far we have covered moments of inertia, polar moments of inertia and radius of gyration.

On 3/2 we will be covering moments of inertia of composite bodies and mass moments of inertia.

Do the following problems out of Chapter 10 -- 9,18,21,35,42,43,92,96,100,101,104

Here are some example problems another book related to Chapter 9 and Chapter 10

Do the following problems out of Chapter 12 – 5,10,17,22,76,90,96,102,116,120,124,128,132,160,168,172,178,198,199,209,212,220,224,226,230

Do the following problems out of Chapter 13 -- 8,20,32,38,56,60,62,82,92,96,104

Just to remind you, there is an exam on Friday March 30, Exam 2: the exam will cover chapters 6, 8, 9, 10, 12.

Materials out of chapter 6 is method of joints/method of sections/frames and machines.

Materials from chapter 8 is friction, wedges, slipping and tipping.

Materials from chapter 9 is center of gravity, center of mass both in 1-, 2- and 3-D.

Materials from chapter 10 include moment of inertia, mass moment of inertia, parallel axis theorem for both.

Materials from Chapter 12 include finding displacement, acceleration and velocity in Cartesian coordinates, polar coordinates, normal-tangential coordinates; particle motion, dependent motion and relative motion.

You are allowed to bring in 4 8.5 x 11 inch formula sheets to include the materials found on the back flaps and front flap of your book. The exam will be 75 minutes long and may include 3-4 problems.

Here are some problems from another book related to Chapter 12.

Here are some example problems from another book related to Chapter 13.

Please read Chapter 14. Do the following problems out of Chapter 14 – 12,13,24,30,34,36,46,60,65,80,84,92,96,100

Here are some example problems from another book related to Chapter 14

Exam 3 is Wednesday 4/18 on chapters 12, 13 and 14. Please bring 7 8.5 x 11 inch formula sheets to include the materials found on the back flaps and front flap of your book as well as the support conditions encountered in Chapter 5. The exam will be 50-55 minutes long and will include 2-3 problems to solve.

This material and all the linked materials provided, except where stated specifically, are copyrighted © Cesar Levy 2012 and is provided to the students of this course only. Use by any other individual without written consent of the author is forbidden.

Final exam is in EC1107 on Friday 4/27 from 945-1145am. The exam will be comprehensive and include all chapters 1-6, 8-10, 12-14. Emphasis will be on the materials covered in class and by the homework problems assigned.

For the final exam, you will be allowed 10 8.5 x 11 sheets of formulas-NO SOLVED PROBLEMS FROM THE SOLUTION MANUALS! Your 10 sheets should include the pages that show what forces exist at which support (support reactions), as well as the materials from the front and back flap of your book on centroids, moments of inertia and equations related to Cartesian, polar( r-q), and n-t coordinates.

The exam will be all inclusive of everything we have done since the beginning of the semester but will be weighed more towards the materials covered in the area of dynamics and anything related to dynamics: moments of inertia, normal-tangential coordinates, polar coordinates, velocity, acceleration, equations of motion, work and energy, projectile motion, etc.

When you come to class for the exam, Friday, please sit yourselves as you have done in all examinations, one seat between yourself and the person on either side of you. If there is need, move some of the chairs to the front of the class. There is room there for at least three more places.