Nov 17, 2025  
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PHY - 170 Engineering Mechanics 1: Statics and Dynamics

3 Credit(s)
This course is an introduction to engineering mechanics for students planning to transfer into a university engineering program.  Students will use free-body diagrams, vector algebra, and differential and integral calculus to solve practical statics, kinematics, and dynamics problems in 2 and 3 dimensions.  Topics include systems of units, particle equilibrium, moment of a force, rigid body equilibrium, analysis of trusses and other structures, internal forces of structural members, rectilinear and curvilineal kinematics and dynamics.

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