Vijesti

STUDY: Motor Vehicle Maintenance

Course: Mechanics

Semester:

Lectures + Exercises:

Total:

ECTS Credits:

II

2

2

60

5

Course Objective: Gaining basic knowledge of statics and dynamics needed for the understanding of vehicle exploitation and maintenance of mechanical parts.

Course Contents: Introduction into mechanics. Motion, basic definitions and terms. Axioms of mechanics. Division of mechanics. Introduction into statics and its tasks. Forces and systems of forces, static moment of force and couple. Reduction of force systems. Determining the centre of weight. Reaction and a free body diagram. Balances of a particle, figure and of a rigid body. Balance of trusses and a system of rigid bodies. Nature and types of friction. Balance during the effect of sliding and rolling frictions. Friction in axial and radial bearings, belt friction. Introduction into dynamics. Kinematic and kinetic approaches. D’Alambert’s principle, tasks of dynamics. Rectilinear motion, differential equation and the law of motion. Kinematics of rectilinear motion. Kinetics of rectilinear motion. General laws of kinetics at rectilinear motion. Curvilinear motion, differential equation and the law of motion. Kinematics of curvilinear motion. Kinetics of curvilinear motion. General laws of kinetics at curvilinear motion. Rotation around the axis. Kinematics of a particle circular motion. Kinematics of a rigid body rotation around the axis. Differential equation of motion, kinetic energy, work and power, kinetic moments of inertia. Kinematics and kinetics of rotational motion transmitters. Dynamic reactions at supports. Planar motion of a rigid body. Kinematics of planar motion, instant centre, centroides, geometrical determination of velocity and acceleration. Differential equation of motion, laws of kinetic energy. Rotation of a body around a point, motion of a symmetric gyroscope.

General and Specific Competencies (Knowledge and Skills): Independent solving of technical problems in the field of statics and dynamics.