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ME 201 - Handouts - Lecture-01

The document summarizes a lecture on engineering mechanics and statics. It introduces fundamental concepts like length, time, mass and particles. It describes Newton's three laws of motion - an object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force, F=ma, and every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's law of universal gravitation is also summarized. The document defines weight as the gravitational attraction of the earth on a mass and provides the equation W=mg.

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ME 201 - Handouts - Lecture-01

The document summarizes a lecture on engineering mechanics and statics. It introduces fundamental concepts like length, time, mass and particles. It describes Newton's three laws of motion - an object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force, F=ma, and every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's law of universal gravitation is also summarized. The document defines weight as the gravitational attraction of the earth on a mass and provides the equation W=mg.

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Lecture No. 01
Junaid Wazir
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
HITEC University, Taxila

Text Book: Engineering Mechanics – Statics by


R.C Hibbeler, Prentice Hall

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 Fundamental Concepts
Length: Length is used to locate the position of a point in
space and thereby describe the size of a physical
system.
Time: Although the principles of statics are time
independent. This quantity plays an important role in
the study of dynamics.
Mass: Mass is a measure of a quantity of matter.
Particle: A particle has a mass but a size that can be
neglected. When a body is idealised as a particle, the
principles of mechanics reduce to a simplified form,
since the geometry of the body will not be concerned in
the analysis of the problem

 All the forces acting on a body will be assumed to be


applied at the same point, that is the forces are
assumed concurrent.

Newton’s first law:


 A particle originally at rest or moving in a straight line
with constant velocity, tends to remain in this State
provided the particle is not subjected to an unbalanced
force (Fig.1-1).

Newton’s second law:


 A particle acted upon by an unbalanced force “F”
experiences an acceleration “a” that has the same
direction as the force and a magnitude that is directly
proportional to the force.

 If “F” is applied to a particle or mass “m”, this law may


be expressed mathematically as:

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Newton’s Third Law:


 The mutual forces of action between two particles are
equal, opposite, and collinear.

Newton's Law of Gravitational Attraction:


 Newton postulated law for governing the gravitational
attraction between any two particles.
 Stated mathematically:

Weight:
Weight refers to the gravitational attraction of the earth on a body
or quantity of mass. The weight of a particle having a mass is
stated mathematically.
𝑊 = 𝑚𝑔

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