Analytical Mechanics

I will teach basics and applications of analytical mechanics, emphasizing variation principle of statics, variation principle of dynamics, and method of variation. These issues will be applied to link mechanisms, elastic/inelastic object deformation, and rigid body rotation.
1st 9/26Introduction: Newton mechanics vs analytical mechanics
2nd10/ 3Variational Principles: variational principle in statics
3rd10/10Variational Principles: variational principle in dynamics
4th10/24MATLAB: vectors and matrices, linear equations
5th10/31MATLAB: ODE solver, optimization, parameter passing
6th11/ 5Link Mechanisms: open link mechanism
7th11/ 7Link Mechanisms: closed link mechanism
8th11/14Rigid Body Rotation: planar/spatial rotation
9th11/21Rigid Body Rotation: quaternion
10th11/28Elastic Deformation: strain potential energy, kinetic energy
11th12/ 5Elastic Deformation: finite element method (FEM)
12th12/12Elastic Deformation: static deformation
13th12/19Elastic Deformatino: dynamic deformation
14th 1/16Inelastic Deformation: inelastic deformation models
15th 1/20Inelastic Deformation: 2D/3D inelastic deformation
Handouts
1st    Introduction reduced copy
2nd-3th    Variational Principles reduced copy    sample programs
4th-5th    MATLAB reduced copy    sample programs
6th-7th    Link Mechanisms reduced copy    sample programs    appendix
8th-9th    Rigid Bidy Rotation reduced copy    sample programs
10th-13th    Elastic Deformation reduced copy    sample programs
14th-15th    Inelastic Deformation reduced copy    sample programs


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