Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Manipulate vectors with graphical techniques and with component methods.
• Compute the moment of a force about a point and about an axis.
• Compute the moment of a couple.
• Move an applied force to another point and retain an equivalent loading system.
• Reduce a set of applied forces and moments to a single force.
• Compute the equilibrium of a free-body loaded by non-concurrent forces.
• Identify 2 force and 3 force bodies.
• Perform truss analysis by the method of joints and the method of sections.
• Determine the centroid of an area.
• Generate the shear and moment diagrams of a beam given the beam loading.
• Perform free-body equilibrium analysis with the inclusion of frictional forces.