syllabus (pdf) - MAE Class Websites
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<strong>MAE</strong> 131A/SE 110A<br />
SOLID MECHANICS 1<br />
Fall 2009<br />
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Instructor: Professor Sia NematNasser [sia@ucsd.edu] 858 534‐4914 <br />
Office Hours: Tuesday; 5:00‐6:00; 4209 EBUI <br />
Assistant: Lauri Jacobs‐Cohantz [ljacobs@ucsd.edu] 858 534‐5930 <br />
Lectures and Tuesday and Thursday; 3:30 ‐ 4:50; CENTER 216 <br />
Problem Solving: Thursday; 5:00 – 5:50; CENTER 216 <br />
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TA: Mr. Edgar Pozos [epozos@ucsd.edu] <br />
Office Hour: Monday and Wednesday 11:30‐12:30; U409 Room 102 <br />
Text: Mechanics of Materials, 5 th Edition. Authors: Beer, Johnston, DeWolf <br />
<strong>Class</strong> Website: http://webct.ucsd.edu <br />
Course Content: <br />
Introduction: What you will learn in this course <br />
Chapter 1: Concept of Stress: normal stress, shear stress <br />
Chapter 2: Concept of Strain: normal strain, shear strain; Hooke’s Law: modulus of elasticity; <br />
statically indeterminate problems <br />
Chapter 3: Torsion <br />
Chapter 4 & 5: Pure Bending <br />
Chapter 6: Shearing Stresses in Beams <br />
Chapter 7: Elements of Stress and Strain Transformations <br />
Chapter 8: Design of Beams under Combined Loading <br />
Chapter 9: Deflection of Beams <br />
Chapter 10: Column Buckling <br />
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GENERAL COMMENTS: Students are responsible for all the material that is covered in the class. The <br />
lectures generally follow the indicated sections of the text. <br />
Note: If you anticipate that you will not be able to be present on the dates shown in the <strong>syllabus</strong> for the <br />
exams, you are advised to drop the course now and take it in the future, as there will be no makeup <br />
midterms or final exam allowed under any circumstances. The grades for missed homework or <br />
exams will be zero. <br />
HOMEWORK PROBLEMS: (10% of course grade). Homework problems will be assigned weekly and will <br />
be due at the beginning of class on the following Tuesday (see Syllabus for due‐dates). You are strongly <br />
encouraged to do the homework problems to learn the subject and to prepare for the examinations. The <br />
assigned readings will help with learning and with the homework problems. Solutions to homework <br />
problems will be posted on the class website on the Thursday following the due date. Graded homework <br />
will be available the following week, outside of the 4200 Engineering Building 1 pod. Missing and late <br />
returns will receive zero credit. <br />
EXAMS: (Two Midterms each 25% of course grade; Final exam 40% of course grade). Exams will be <br />
closed book. You may bring to the exams a one‐page (8 1/2x11) hand‐written (not xeroxed or printed) <br />
sheet of notes, and you may use a calculator. Exams will be based on material covered in lectures. <br />
Therefore you are strongly encouraged to attend lectures, take good notes, and read the text. Solutions to
midterms will be posted on the class website the day following the mid‐term. <br />
REGRADES will be accepted within 48 hrs. from the time the graded assignment or exam is returned. <br />
Attach a note clearly explaining what you think should be regraded and why and turn in the regrade <br />
request at the beginning of class. All graded exams and homeworks will be placed outside of the 4200 <br />
pod of Engineering BuildingI. It is your responsibility to retrieve your graded work in a timely <br />
manner if you wish to have a chance to ask for possible regrading. <br />
LECTURES AND PROBLEM SOLVING: There will be a Lecture on Tuesday 3:30 – 4:50 and Lecture/Problem‐<br />
Solving on Thursday 3:30 ‐ 5:50, with a 10 minute break. <br />
Do not be surprised if an already solved problem is given as an exam problem. And the midterms and final <br />
exam will contain new problems not taken directly from the textbook. <br />
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