Week 12 Determination of principal axes by diagonalizing the inertia matrix.
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Course Material
- Week 1 Kinematics rectangular components of velocity and acceleration
- Week 2 radial and transverse components of velocity and acceleration.
- Week 3 tangential and normal components of velocity and acceleration
- Week 4 Rectilinear motion of particles. Uniformly accelerated rectilinear motion
- Week 5 Projectile motion with air resistance
- Week 6 Kinetics: Work, power, kinetic energy and energy principal, conservative force fields,
- Week 7 Resisted Motion and Damped Forced Oscillator: Vertical motion with air resistance
- Week 8 Central Forces and Planetary Motion: Central force fields, equations of motion, potential energy, orbits. Kepler’s law of planetary motion.
- Week 9 Mid Term Paper
- Week 10 Linear and angular velocity of a rigid body about a fixed axis, moments and products of inertia. Parallel and perpendicular axis theorem
- Week 11 Angular momentum and moment of inertia. Principal axes and principal moments of inertia
- Week 12 Determination of principal axes by diagonalizing the inertia matrix.
- Week 13 Equimomental systems
- Week 14 Euler Equations of Motion of a Rigid Body. Rotating axes theorem.
- Week 15 Euler’s dynamical equations.
- Week 16 Free rotation of a rigid body with three different principal moments,
- Week 17 The Eulerian angles, angular velocity and kinetic energy in terms of Euler angles
- Week 18 Final Term Exam
- Chapters 18
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Dr. Tahir Nazir
