EMCH 213 Course Syllabus & Policies

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Pennsylvania State University EMCH 213 Required Textbook R.C. Hibbeler (2015) Mechanics of Materials, 10th Edition, Pearson, Hoboken, NY. You may obtain electronic access to the book and Mastering Engineering by following the directions in the document attached here: Student_Registration_Handout_passmore82239.pdf. Note Mastering Engineering is required for this cours ...[Show More]

Pennsylvania State University
EMCH 213
Required Textbook

R.C. Hibbeler (2015) Mechanics of Materials, 10th Edition, Pearson, Hoboken, NY. You may obtain electronic access to the book and Mastering Engineering by following the directions in the document attached here: Student_Registration_Handout_passmore82239.pdf. Note Mastering Engineering is required for this course.

Prerequisites & Expectations

The prerequisite for E MCH 213 is E MCH 211 (statics) and by extension, MATH 141 (Calc II). If you have not had these prerequisite courses, please contact Prof. Passmore as soon as possible. In particular, each student is expected to have a working knowledge of the material covered in all prerequisite courses, which includes, but is not limited to:

• Geometry and trigonometry, including the laws of sines and cosines, direction cosines,

and the like.

• Vector calculus. Vectors in 2- and 3-space, inner products, and vector products.

• Statics. How to draw correct free body diagrams, find force and moment equilibrium,

write friction laws, and find support reactions. Equivalent force systems. Moments of

inertia.

• Differential and integral calculus. How to differentiate and integrate most simple

functions (e.g., polynomials, sine, cosine, exponentials, logarithms, and combinations of

these functions); apply simple sequences and series; and apply the chain rule to both

differentiate and integrate functions.

You are also expected to devote sufficient time to master the course material. It is unreasonable to expect that good performance can be achieved without study. Since I would expect students to spend about 9 hours per week on this course during a 15 week semester, you should expect to spend that much time during the six week summer session.

I expect students to watch all the lecture videos, supplemental problem solutions, do all the assigned reading, and complete all assigned homework.