Advanced Engineering Dynamics
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Engineering Dynamics (subject code 2710907) as prescribed for M(D · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 33 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2710907)Unit 1 Kinematics and Kinetics Of Particles
- Path Variables: Tangent and Normal
- Parametric Description of curves
- binormal direction and torsion of a curve
- Rectangular Cartesian Coordinates
- Curvilinear Coordinates: cylindrical and polar coordinates
- spherical coordinates
- Arbitrary curvilinear coordinates: Coordinates and unit vector
- kinematical relations
- Mixed kinematical description
- Coordinate transforms: velocity and acceleration analysis using moving reference frame Generalized Newton’s second Law, Work-Energy
- Conservation of Energy and Momentum
- Mass Flow: Steady and Variable
Unit 2 Rigid Bodies
- General Equations of constrained rigid body kinematics
- Eulerian angles
- Interconnections and Linkage
- Inertia effects of rigid bodies: Linear and angular momentum
- Inertia properties
- Rate of change of angular momentum
Unit 3 Newton-Euler Equations of Motion
- Fundamental Equations
- Planar Motion
- Newton-Euler Equations for a system
- Momentum and Energy Principles
- Application to modelling of single and two DOF system vibration problems
Unit 4 Lagrange’s equation
- Generalized coordinates and kinematic constraints
- virtual work
- generalized forces
- Derivation of Lagrane’s Equation
- Langrage’s Multipliers
- Application to modelling and analysis of simple mechanisms
Unit 5 Alternative Formulations
- Hamilton’s principle
- Generalized momentum principles
- Formulations with Quasi-Coordinates
- Application to modelling and analysis of simple mechanisms