440:221 Intro to Engineering Mechanics: Statics
Instructor: Alberto Cuitino
TA: Pam Carabetta and Jingru Zhang
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Lecture 8
Fall 2009
Based on Textbook Material: Engineering Mechanics Statics, 12
th
Edition, R.C. Hibbeler, Pearson 2010.
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440:221 Lectures
School of Engineering, Fall 2009
Topics to be covered
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What is a moment of a force
ABOUT A SPECIFIED AXIS?
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What is it useful for?
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How do we compute a such moment?
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Mixed (cross and dot) product, what it is, what is good for?
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440:221 Lectures
School of Engineering, Fall 2009
Moment of a force about an axis
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