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 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Mechanical Engineering (administered by the Learning Partnerships Office) |
| Credits:
| 5 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at Bridgwater College Semester 2 at Chichester College Semester 2 at Wiltshire College |
| Assessment:
| EX 40%, PR 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: The aims of this unit are to: * investigate DC theory; * analyse energy and momentum; * analyse shear force and bending in beams; * analyse fluid flow; * analyse free vibration and damping. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit students should be able to: * apply dc theory to a range of applications; * apply the principle of conservation of energy; * determine the distribution of shear force and bending moment in simply supported beams and cantilevers; * determine the rate of flow, change in pressure and effects of losses in pipe flow; * determine the periodic time and natural frequency for damped and undamped systems vibrating with simple harmonic motion. Skills: During this unit students should gain the following skills: Intellectual * gathering, processing and analysing technical information (A) * formulating outcomes (A) Professional * making written and verbal presentations (A) Practical * developing identification and observational skills to maintain records and contribute to reports (T,A) Key * writing reports (A). Content: This unit focuses on: * applying DC electrical principles, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s laws and motor/generator principles; * relating kinetic and potential energy, work done and the conservation of energy theory; * the determination of stress, strain, modulus of elasticity; factor of safety, torque and bending moment; * determining support reactions for simply supported beams and the construction of diagrams of shear force and bending moment for simply supported beams and cantilevers; * determination of the power and heat loss due to friction and the power transmitted by shafts in terms of torque; * using the continuity equation and Bernoulli’s theorem to determine velocity, rate of flow, change in pressure and frictional losses of fluids flowing in pipes; * investigating simple harmonic motion systems in terms of natural frequency, periodic time and spring stiffness; relating these to linear and angular velocity and acceleration; * the effects of damping on systems vibrating with simple harmonic motion. |
| Programme availability: |
LP10240 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Programmes administered by the Learning Partnerships Office
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