AN205 Mechanical Science syllabus and Books Recommended by Institution of Engineers (India)

  SYLLABUS
Group A

Mechanics of Solids: Coplanar force systems, moment, of a force, couple, equilibrium conditions, free-body diagram, laws of friction. Centroid and area moment of inertia, mass moment of inertia, principle of virtual work, screw jack. Dynamics and Statics: Kinematics of particles, velocity, acceleration, Newton's laws, equation of motion (rectilinear), momentum impulse, work/energy, projectiles, moment of momentum, rotation and simple harmonic motion, free vibration. Mechanics of Deformation: Stress, strain, Hooke's law, elastic constants, ultimate strength, Mohr's circle of stress, thin-walled pressure vessels. Deflection of beam-bending moment and shear force in beam/cantilevers, torsion of circular sections.

GROUP B

Fluid Mechanics: Fluids and their properties, viscosity, compressibility, surface tension, non-Newtonian fluids, pressure at a point, . hydrostatic forces on immersed and floating bodies, type of flow, velocity and acceleration of a flow particle, hydrodynamics. Thermodynamics: Basic concepts- properties of gases and equation of state, work, heat, heat capacity, internal energy; enthalpy. First law of thermodynamics and law of conservation of energy, basic thermodynamic processes for ideal gases. Second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, entropy, various processes on T-s and H-s planes. Ideal heat. engine cycles-SI and CI engine' cycles, principle of operation of SI and CI engines.

Books Recommended by the Institution of Engineers (India):-

1. Mechanical Sciences by Vijay Gupta,G. K. Lal,G.K. Lal,N.G.R. Iyengar

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