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Nov 09, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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ENGR 256 - Statics 3 CR
Forces and moments acting upon structural bodies under static loads. Concepts of vectors, free-body diagrams, shear and moment diagrams, centroids, moments of inertia and friction.
Requisites: Take PHYS 221 with at least a grade of C.
General Education Requirement: Critical Thinking - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Natural Sciences
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to draw complete free-body diagrams and write appropriate equilibrium equations from the free-body diagram, including the support reactions on a structure.
- Students will be able to apply the concepts of equilibrium to various structures.
- Students will be able to calculate moments, centers of mass, the moment of inertia, and equivalent loads.
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