ME Graduate ProgramsPh.D. Qualifying Exam Description
Dynamics
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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. |