Laboratory equipment, PC's
1. Airflow rig, Deadweight tester, Venturi rigs, hydrostatic tank
2. Hounsfield and Lloyd tensile testers
3. Gyroscope rig, Bending moment/shear force beam, Flywheel moment of inertia rig,
Spring stiffness rig, hardness tester rig, Thin Cylinder

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Learning on all aspects of the contents will be facilitated by attending lectures.
Practical and analytical assignments using laboratory equipment
Problem solving and student centred learning
Contact hours: 24hrs lectures:12 hrs laboratory/tutorials

Mechanics - Units & Prefixes, Newton`s Laws of Motion, Stress / Strain Relationships and Hooke`s Law, Solid Body Statics, Friction, Work & Energy Equations, Impulse and Momentum, Rectilinear Motion, Projectiles.
Fluid definitions and properties. Pressure and velocity and flow. Conservation of mass, energy and momentum applied to fluids. . Flow and pressure measurement. Pipe flow and fluid power. Buoyancy and stability of floating bodies.

2 problem based or laboratory assignments (100%) overall,
weighted at 50% Solid Mechanics, [learning outcome 1,2] Tutorial questions / scientific paper production
50% Fluid Mechanics [learning outcome 1,2] Water specified hydraulic design

Fundamentals of Thermofluid sciences, YA Cengel, RH Turner, McGraw-Hill, 2004, 007123926X
An introduction to Engineering Mechanics, D Reid, Palgrave, 2000, 0333949218
Mechanics of engineering materials, PP Behham et al, Longman, 1996, 0582251648