MAE 162A Introduction To Mechanisms and Mechanical Systems Fall 2013 Tentative Course Syllabus

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department School of Engineering and Applied Science

MAE 162A Introduction to Mechanisms and Mechanical Systems Fall 2013 Tentative Course Syllabus

Instructor: Giacomo Po ([email protected]) Lecture: Tu & Th 10:00-11:50am PAB 1434A Oce: Eng IV 37-146 Oce hours: Tu & Th 12:00-1:00pm TA: Discussion: Oce: Oce hours: Rashid Yasin ([email protected]) F 10:00-11:50pm HAINES A18 Eng IV 38-138 room A M & Th, 3-4pm

Textbook: Theory of Machines & Mechanisms, (4th ed.), Uicker, Pennock, and Shigley Homework: problems from the textbook will be posted each Thursday on the course website. All homework is due on Friday of the following week, during discussion (unless otherwise stated). Grading: homework 20%, midterm 35%, nal 45%.

Tentative schedule of lectures week 0 introduction, denitions, kinematic pairs, mobility, examples week 1 tu 10/01 Chapter 1 classication of mechanisms, kinematic inversion Grashof law, mechanical advantage th 10/03 Chapter 2 position and displacement, the loop closure equation, examples week 2 tu 10/08 Chapter 2-3 displacement, rotation, translation. Velocity, velocity in rigid bodies th 10/10 Chapter 3 apparent velocities, contact and rolling, vector and complex algebra methods week 3 tu 10/15 Chapter 3-4 instant center, mechanical advantage, centrodes, problems th 10/17 Chapter 4 acceleration, rigid body motion week 4 tu 10/22 Chapter 5 acceleration analysis th 10/24 Chapter 5 analysis of planar linkages week 5 tu 10/29 Chapter 6 applications to planar linkages, review problems th 10/31 midterm (ch.1-5) week 6 tu 11/05 Chapter 7 Cams th 11/07 Chapter 7-8 Design of Cams, Introduction to Spur gears week 7 tu 11/12 Chapter 8 Spur gears th 11/14 Chapter 8 Analysis of gears and applications week 8 tu 11/19 Chapter 9 Overview of helical gears, bevelgears, worms, worm gears tu 11/21 Chapter 10 Linkages week 9 tu 11/26 Chapter 10 Analysis of linkages, applications week 10 tu 12/03 Chapter 13 Introduction to force analysis th 12/05 review nals week th 12/12 nal, 3am-6pm th 9/26 Chapter 1

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