337-0015/03 – Basics of Mechanics (ZAKME)

The subject acquaints the students with the basic terms, principles and approaches of the mechanics of rigid bodies. It contains two parts - statics and dynamics. Statics acquaints the students with the term force. They learn to carry out the operations with forces. They acquaint with two basic effects of the force - the force and the moment of the force. They learn to solve the problem of the resultant force and the problem of the force equilibrium. They master the basic approaches in investigation of the force application on the rigid bodies via the free-body diagram. They acquaint with the internal forces, stresses the specific class of bodies - beams. They learn to solve the joint forces, transmitted between single bodies, composing the rigid body structure. They acquaint with the problems of friction. They learn to investigate the position of the centre of gravity. In dynamics the students acquaint with the basic quantities of the motion and the relations among them. They acquaint with the term degree of freedom as the basic unit, quantifying the motion of arbitrary subject. They learn to investigate the motion of the particle, the body and the mechanism. They acquaint with the basic relationship between the motion and the forces as its cause. This relationship, 2nd Newtons law - law of the force, they learn to apply to the investigation of the motion of the mass particle, the body and the mechanism. They acquaint with subsequent physical quantities of mechanics and the laws of its variation. They acquaint with the geometry of the mass, with the quantities describing the inertia effects of the mass and with its influence to the motion of the body.