CE1151 ENGINEERING MECHANICS SYLLABUS

ANNA UNIVERSITY TIRUCHIRAPPALLI 620 024
Regulations 2007 Syllabus Common to all B.E. / B.Tech.
(Except B.E. Marine Engineering) SEMESTER II
CE1151 ENGINEERING MECHANICS

UNIT I STATICS OF PARTICLES 10
Units and Dimensions – Law of Mechanics – Vectorial representation forces and
moments - Vector Operation - Addition, subtraction, dot product, cross product –
Concepts of Particles and Rigid bodies – Composition of concurrent forces in Plane –
Free body Diagram – Equilibrium of Rigid bodies in Two dimensions.

UNIT II PROPERTIES OF SURFACES, MOMENTS AND PRODUCTS OF
INERTIA 12
Determination of Areas – First moment of area – Centroid of sections – Rectangle,
Circle, Triangle, T section, I section, Angle section, Hollow section – Second and
Product moments of Plane area – Rectangle, Triangle, Circle, T section, I section, Angle
section, Hollow section – Parallel axis theorem - Perpendicular axis theorem – Polar
Moment of Inertia.

UNIT III FRICTION 7
Laws of coulomb Friction – Coefficient of Friction – Dry Friction – Sliding Friction –
Ladder friction – Belt friction – V-Belt – Screw Jack – Rolling Resistance.

UNIT IV KINEMATICS OF PARTICLES 10
Introduction – Velocity and Acceleration – Rectangular Components – Kinematical
Relations and Applications – Newton’s Law – Rectilinear Translation – Curvilinear
motion – Components of motion – Projectile motion.

UNIT V WORK ENERGY METHODS, IMPULSE AND MOMENTUM 9
Work Energy Method – Conservation of Energy – Impulse and Momentum Relation –
Impulsive Forces – Impact force – Conservation of momentum – Moment of Momentum
Equation.

Total: 48
TEXT BOOKS
1. Irving H. Shames and G.Krishna Mohana Rao, “Engineering Mechanics – Statics and Dynamics”, 4th
Edition, Pearson Education, 2006.
2. M.V Seshagiri Rao and D Rama Durgaiah, “ Engineering Mechanics”, University Press, 2005.

REFERENCES
1. Beer F.P and Johnson E.R., “Vector Mechnics for Engineers – Statics and Dynamics”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Compony Ltd., New Delhi, 2001.
2. K.V.Natarajan, “Engineering Mechanics”, Dhanalakshmi Publishers, Chennai,
2006.