ME Graduate Programs

 

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Description

Dynamics

1. Duration: 2.5 hours

2. Closed book, closed notes (one sheet of formulas is allowed).

3. Suggested textbook(s) for study: Meriam and Kraige (any recent edition) or Hibbeler (any recent edition)

4. Topics covered: Newtonian dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, including work-energy methods and impulse-momentum methods.

5. Topics NOT covered: Lagrangian methods of analysis; kinetics of rigid bodies; 3-D (spatial) problems.

6. Nature of exam: 4 problems; no derivations or proofs; calculator is recommended.