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ME 2560 STATICS
Chapter I. General Principles
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1. Mechanics
Mechanics is the branch of physics (classic) that studies
the state of rest or motion of bodies subjected to the action
of forces.
Rigidbody Mechanics
Mechanics
Deformablebody Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
2. Fundamental Concepts
Basic Quantities are quantities which cannot be defined by
other quantities because there is nothing more fundamental.
TABLE 1.1 Fundamental quantities defined by the
International System of Units (SI)
Quantity Unit Description
Length Meter (m) Quantity required to locate the position of a point in space
Mass Kilogram (kg) Property of a physical object that quantifies the amount of matter
Temperature Kelvin (k) Measure of the average energy contained in the microscopic degrees
of freedom of a system
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Third Law. The mutual forces of action and reaction between two
particles are equal, opposite and collinear.
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W = mg
m Mass of the body.
g Acceleration of gravity (9.81 m/s2 or 32.2 ft/s2).
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3. Units of Measurement
Systems and Fundamental Units
Conversion Factors:
1 ft 0.3048 m
1 slug 14.5938 kg
4. Prefixes
Exponential
Form Prefix SI Symbol
Multiple
1 000 000 000 109 giga G
1 000 000 106 mega M
1 000 103 kilo k
Submultiple
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5. Aplications
The forces within the every member of these bridges must be determined to
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When a pressure vessel is designed, it is necessary to determine the center of gravity of its
component parts, calculate its volume and surface area, and reduce three-dimensional
distributed loadings to their resultants.
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