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Engineering
Undergraduate 2
04/28/2013

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Term
Mechanics
Definition
Study of bodies at rest or in motion.
Term
Statics
Definition
Study of bodies at rest or in equilibrium.
Term
1 2 3 5
Definition
Which six principles of Mechanics apply most often in statics.
1. Law of addition of forces
2. Principle of transmissibility of forces
3.Newton's first law
4.Newton's 2nd law
5.Newton's 3rd law
6.Newton's Law of Gravitation
Term
Particle (shape,size ignored)
Rigid Body (changes in shape,size ignored)
Deformable body (changes " " not ignored)
Fluids (Liquids incompressible, gases compressible)
Definition
Real body simplified for analysis as:
Term
Force (vector quantity)
Definition
Action of one body onto another; characterized by its point of application, magnitude, LOA, and sense
Term
External or Internal (to the body)
Planar or Spatial (one plane or 3-D)
Concurrent or
non-concurrent (parallel or non parallel)
Definition
A force can be either...
Term
Vector
Definition
Parameter possessing magnitude and direction which add according to the parallelogram law. Ex. displacements, velocities, accelerations.
Term
Scalar
Definition
Parameter possessing magnitude but not direction. Ex. mass, volume, temperature
Term
Fixed or bound
Definition
______ vectors have well defined points of app. that cannot be changed without affecting an analysis.
Term
Free
Definition
_____ vectors may be freely moved in space without changing their effect on an analysis.
Term
Sliding
Definition
_____ vectors may be applied anywhere along their line of action without affecting an analysis.
Term
Negative
Definition
______ vector of a given vector has the same magnitude and the opposite direction.
Term

R2 = P2 + Q2 -2PQcosB

R = P + Q

Definition
Law of cosines
Term

commutative

P + Q = Q + P

associative

P + Q + S = (P + Q) + S = P + (Q + S)

Definition
Vector addition is...
Term
Concurrent forces
Definition
Set of forces which all pass through the same point
Term
Vector force components
Definition
two or more force vectors which, together, have the same effect as a single force vector.
Term
Equilibrium
Definition
When the resultant of all forces acting on a particle is zero, the particle is in...
Term
If the resultant force on a particle is zero, the particle will remain at rest or will continue at constant speed in a straight line.
Definition
Newton's first Law
Term
Space diagram
Definition
A sketch showing the physical conditions of the problem.
Term
Free-Body Diagram
Definition
A sketch showing only the forces on the selected particle.
Term
system of forces
Definition
A collection of forces acting at specific points of a rigid body is called a _____. Forces acting on the SAME BODY
Term
equivalent
Definition
Two systems of forces are said to be _______ if they have the SAME EFFECT on the rigid body.
Term
Dot Product (scalar product)
Definition
The result of this operation is scalar (numerically it could be postive or negative) It requires two vectors (binary operation). The product of the magnitudes of each of the two vectors and the angle between them.
Term
Multiplying it by a unit vector along a known axis.
Definition
To convert a scalar into a vector what operation is necessary which we learned in Chap. 2?
Term

Commutative P•Q = Q•P

Distributive P•(Q1 + Q2) = P•Q1 + P•Q2

Not associative (P•Q)•S = undefined

Definition
Scalar products are...
Term

Determine the angle given the two vectors.

Determine the projection of one vector along a given axis.

Definition
Two main applications of the dot product.
Term
Cross product (vector product)
Definition

_______ of two vectors P and Q is defined as the  new vector V which satisfies the following conditions.

  • LOA of V is perpendicular to plane containing P and Q
  • Magnitude of V is V = PQsinΘ
  • Direction of V is obtained from the right-hand rule

 

Term

Not commutative QxP = -(PxQ)

Distributive Px(Q1 + Q2) = PxQ1 + PxQ2

Not associative (PxQ)xS not= Px(QxS)

Definition
Vector products ( cross products) are....
Term
Moment of a force
Definition
is thus a measure of the effect of a force on a rigid body the tendency for roation (sometimes called a torque)
Term
Couple
Definition
Two forces of equal magnitude, opposite in direction AND their LOA separated by a finite distance.
Term

ZERO

Body is not in equilibrium b/c both forces tend to rotate the rigid body.

Definition
Net (resultant) force of a couple...
Term
Couple vectors
Definition
Obey the law of addition of vectors, are free vectors the POA is not significant, may be resolved into component vectors.
Term
A force-couple system
Definition
The three forces may now be replaced by an equivalent force vector and couple vector.
Term
force-couple systems
Definition
A system of forces may be replaced by a collection of _______ acting at a given point O.
Term
equivalent
Definition
Two systems of forces are _______ if they can be reduced to the same force-couple system.
Term
addition
Definition
The force-couple system at O may be moved to O' with the _______ of the moment of R about O'
Term

mutually perpendicular

single force

new LOA

Definition
If the resultant force and couple at O are __________, they can be replaced by a _______ acting along a ______
Term

1. the forces are concurrent

2. the forces are coplanar

3. the forces are parallel

Definition
The resultant force-couple system for a system of forces will be mutually perpendicular if...
Term

∑F acting on it is zero (no net translational effect)

∑M due to all forces about any arbitrary point is also zero (no net rotational effect)

Definition
The necessary and sufficient conditions of equilibrium for a rigid body is that...
Term
six scalar equations.
Definition

∑F = 0

∑Mo = 0

These two vector equations yield...

Term
Reactions
Definition
...are responses of one rigid body on to another due to the constraints placed on the system of rigid bodies to serve a certain purpose. They prevent the 2nd body from translation or rotation or both. Are either forces or couples or both and thus provide required constraints.
Term
  • # of unknowns > # of independent equations
  • Fewer # of unknowns than equations, partially constrained
  • Equal # of unknowns and equations but improperly constrained

 

Definition
Statically Indeterminate Reactions
Term
concurrent or parallel. If there is no single point of intersection then we could not show the sum of the moments about one point is zero.
Definition
For equilibrium of a three-force body the lines of action of the three forces must be ________ or ________
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