Syllabus and Lecture Videos
Lecture Schedule (links are mostly to Lecture
videos):
Lect 1, 8/27/09: Lecture cancelled due to flood in Olin
Hall
Lect 2, 9/1/09: What
is Mech Eng.? and Intro to MATLAB (video 1)
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Lect 3, 9/3/09:
2: More on MATLAB (video 2) Video
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Lect 4, 9/8/09: Buoyant
force & Archemedies principle (video 3)
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Lect 5, 9/10/09: Buoyancy
cont. & demo of ice in salt water (video 4)
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Demonstration of
ice-melting in the salt & fresh water (3min)
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Lect 6, 9/15/09: Prof.
H. Voelcker - Mech. design and manufacturing (video 5)
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Lect 7, 9/17/09: Derivation
of buoyant force & demo of ball floating in oil-water
interface (video 6)
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Lect 8, 9/22/09: Finding
volume of a part of sphere (video 7)
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Lect 9, 9/24/09: Volume
of sphere cont. using MATLAB (video 8)
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Lect 10, 9/29/09: Springs
and Elasticity & coffee stirer experiment (video 9)
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Lect 11, 10/1/09: Tension
and Bending (video 10)
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Lect 12, 10/6/09: Concept
of Energy & First law of Thermodynamics (video 11)
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Lect 13, 10/8/09: Prof.
Brian Kirby - Linear viscous fluids (video 12)
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Lect 14, 10/13/09: Review, no video.
Lect 15, 10/15/09: In class Quiz
1. (solutions)
Lect 16, 10/20/09: Center
of mass motion, mechanical power & gears (video 13)
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Lect 17, 10/22/09: Power
while riding a bike (and a bit on differential equations)
(video 14)
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Lect 18, 10/27/09: Highlights:
Motion of particle under constant force, and constant
power (video 15)
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Lect 19, 10/29/09: Bike
problem from HW-8 (biker with variable power) (video 16)
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*
MATLAB code for plotting the graphs shown in the Lecture: bike.m
* Lecture
error: Near the start of the Lecture should be "d
P/d omega = 0" not "d P / dt = 0." The calculation was
correct, just a "typo". Three times "t" should be replaced with
"omega".
Lect 20, 11/3/09:
Differential equations, MATLAB (video 17)
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Lect 21, 11/5/09: Differential
equations and MATLAB cont. (video 18)
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Lecture 22, 11/10/09: Prof Marjolein van der
Muelen - Stresses and strains in biometerials
(Due to a video
file problem, video 19 is split: vid
19 part1
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19 part2
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Lect 23, 11/12/09: Prof
Zellman Warhaft - Ethics in Engineering (video 20)
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Lect 24, 11/17/09: Multivariable
odes in matlab, finding the best G for the bike (video
21)
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MATLAB code for
plotting the graphs shown in the Lecture: chaos.m
Lect 25, 11/19/09: Prof
Petru Petrina - Trusses
(video 22)
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Lect 26, 11/24/09: Gears and Friction (video
23)
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Lect 27, 12/1/09: More on gears &
odes (video 24)
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Lect 28, 12/3/09: in class quiz
2
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