Week 1  Lesson 1

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Chapter 1 Introduction

2.1 Scalars and vectors and Vector operations

2.2 Cartesian vectors

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Week 1  Lesson 2

2.3 Position vectors and Force vector directed along a line

2.4 Dot product

Chapter 3  Equilibrium problems of a particle

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Week 2  Lesson 3

Review of Chapter 1-3

4.1 Moment of a force-scalar formulation

4.2 Cross product

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Test of Chapter 1-3.

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Week 2  Lesson 4

4.3 Moment of a force-vector formulation

4.4 Moment of a force about a specified axis

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Week 3  Lesson 5

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4.5 Moment of a couple

4.6 Simplification of a system of Forces and Couples

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Week 3  Lesson 6

4.7 Reduction of a Simple Distributed Loading

4.8 Center of Gravity and Centroid

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Week 4  Lesson 7

Review of Chapter 4

5.1 Conditions for rigid-body equilibrium

5.2 Support Reactions in 2-D

5.3 Free-body diagrams

5.4 Two force members

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Test of Chapter 4.

Week 4  Lesson 8

Typical problems in Lesson 1

5.5 Equilibrium problems in 2-D

5.6 Support reactions in 3-D

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Week 5  Lesson 9

Typical problems in Lesson 2

5.7 Equilibrium problems in 3-D

5.8 Constrains and statical determinacy

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Week 5  Lesson 10

5.9 Simple trusses

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Week 6 Lesson 11

Typical problems in Lesson 5

5.10 Frames and machines

Review of Chapter 5

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Test for Chapter 5

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Week 6 Lesson 12

6.1 Characteristics of dry friction

6.2 Problems involving dry friction

6.3 Rolling resistance

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Week 7 Lesson 13

Review of Chapter 6

7.1 General continuous motion of a particle

7.2 Curvilinear motion: rectangular components

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Typical Problem in Test of Chapter 4

Test for Chapter 6

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Week 7 Lesson 14

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7.3 Curvilinear motion: normal and tangential components

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Week 8 Lesson 15

7.4 Absolute dependent motion analysis of particles

7.5 Relative motion of two particles using translating axes

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Week 8 Lesson 16

Review of Chapter 7

8.1 Planar rigid-body motion

8.2 Translation

8.3 Rotation about a fixed axis

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Test  for Chapter 7

Week 9 Lesson 17

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Typical Problem in Test of Chapter 5

8.4 Absolute Dependent Motion Analysis of Bodies

8.5 General plane motion：relative-motion analysis of velocity

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Week 9 Lesson 18

8.6 Instantaneous Center of Zero Velocity

8.7 General plane motion：relative-motion analysis of acceleration (1)

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Week 10 Lesson 19

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Review of Chapter  8

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Typical Problem in Test of Chapter 6

Test of Chapter 8

Week 10 Lesson 20

9.1 Newton’s second law of motion

9.2 Equation of motion for a particle

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Week 11 Lesson 21

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Typical Problem in Test of Chapter 7

9.3 Equation of motion for a system of particles

9.4 Mass moment of inertia

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Week 11 Lesson 22

9.5.1 Planar kinetic equations of motion

9.5.2 Equations of motion: translation

9.5.3 Equations of motion: rotation about a fixed axis

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Week 12 Lesson 23

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9.5.4 Equations of motion: general plane motion

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Week 12 Lesson 24

Test of Chapter 9

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Typical Problem in Test of Chapter 8

Review of Chapter 9

10.1 Work and power

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Week 13 Lesson 25

10.2 Kinetic energy

10.3.1 Principle of work and energy for a particle

10.3.2 Principle of work and energy for a system of particles

10.3.3 Principle of work and energy for rigid bodies in plane motion

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Week 13 Lesson 26

Test of Chapter 10

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10.4 Conservative forces and conservation of energy

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Week 14 Lesson 27

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11.1 Principle of linear impulse and momentum for a particle

Week 14 Lesson 28

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11.2 Principle of angular impulse and momentum for a particle

11.3 Linear and angular momentum of a system of particles

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Week 15 Lesson 29

Typical Problem in Test of Chapter 9

11.4.1 Principle of impulse and momentum for a system of particles

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Week 15 Lesson 30

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11.4.2 Principle of impulse and momentum for a system of bodies

11.5.1 Conservation of linear momentum

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Week 16 Lesson 31

11.5.2 Conservation of angular momentum

Review of Chapter 11

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Typical Problem in Test of Chapter 10