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Rigid Body Dynamics (Coursera)

Offered by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - KAIST,

This course teaches dynamics, one of the basic mechanics subjects of Mechanical Engineering. Students would be able to organize their knowledge about force and motion, work-energy, impulse-momentum in view of Newton's 2nd law and its integration over time and displacement. The Engineering Dynamics consists of two parts: particle dynamics and rigid body dynamics. This is the second part of the dynamics: rigid body dynamics.

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The class will consist of lecture videos, which are about 15 min length (or a bit longer). These contain a couple of practice problem solving. There will also be standalone homeworks that are not part of video lectures, and a final exam.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Lecture Note
Before you start the Lecture, please download this lecture note. Each chapter has two version of lecture note. One is student version that has blanks, the Other is filled version.

WEEK 2
1-1 Week
Introduction to Rigid Body Kinematics, Absolute and Relative Kinematics

WEEK 3
1-2 Week
Relative Velocity & Acceleration

WEEK 4
2-1 Week
Motion Relative to Rotating Axis

WEEK 5
2-2 Week
Fundamentals of Kinematics of rigid body

WEEK 6
3-1 Week
General plane motion of rigid body

WEEK 7
3-2 Week
Work and energy of rigid body

WEEK 8
4-1 Week
Work and energy of rigid body

WEEK 9
4-2 Week
Impulse and momentum of rigid body

WEEK 10
5-1 Week
Impulse and momentum of rigid body

WEEK 11
5-2 Week
3D Kinematics of rigid body

WEEK 12
6-1 Week
3D Kinematics of rigid body

WEEK 13
6-2 Week
3D Kinetics of rigid body

WEEK 14
7-1 Week
3D Kinetics of rigid body

WEEK 15
7-2 Week
Gyroscopic motion

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