ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
REGULATIONS – 2017
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM
GE8292 ENGINEERING MECHANICS
UNIT I STATICS OF PARTICLES
Lami’s theorem
Equilibrium of a particle in space
Principle of transmissibility
UNIT II EQUILIBRIUM OF RIGID BODIES
Moment of a force about a point and about an axis
Equilibrium of Rigid bodies in two dimensions
UNIT III PROPERTIES OF SURFACES AND SOLIDS
Theorems of Pappus
Principal moments of inertia of plane areas
UNIT IV DYNAMICS OF PARTICLES
Newton’s laws of motion
Impact of elastic bodies
UNIT V FRICTION AND RIGID BODY DYNAMICS
Laws of sliding friction
Translation and Rotation of Rigid Bodies
General Plane motion of simple rigid bodies