Course Materials:
Textbook errata, etc… (Ginsberg), Link to Book at UW-Library (Links to an external site.)
Lecture Notes (PDF)
Video Lectures (Youtube) (Links to an external site.)
Matlab Scripts
Homework Assignment Files
Homework Solutions
Key to abbreviations below:
LO = Learning Outcome
Read = Mandatory Reading
Review/Skim = Optional reading
PCA = Pre-Class Assignment. These are due at the beginning of the following class and will be graded as homework problems.
ICEx = In Class Exercise
Lec = Lecture, Relevant HW Problems (green)
Activities/due dates/etc shown with orange text are subject to change
| Date* | Topic (relevant sections from Ginsberg, Engineering Dynamics, 2008, Cambridge) | Due Dates \ date assigned |
| 9/2 | L1 Introduction Video (Links to an external site.) & Slides, Review (1.1-1.2), HW1P1, HW2P1 | HW1 |
| 9/4 | L2 Kinematics of Particles & Bodies Video 1 (Links to an external site.), Video 2 (Links to an external site.) & Slides (part of 3.0-3.2), HW1P2-3 | |
| 9/7 | Labor Day Holiday | |
| 9/9 | L3 Derivative of a Rotating/Elongating Vector (3.3) Video (Links to an external site.), Slides, (Links to an external site.) | HW2, HW #1 due, DP #1 Assigned |
| 9/11 | L3 continued, Angular Velocity & Angular Acceleration (3.4) Video (Links to an external site.), HW2P2-4 -examples | |
| 9/14 | L4 Rectangular Coordinates (2.2), Cylindrical and Spherical Coords. (2.3), FW Live Lecture (BBCollab), Slides, HW2P5-6 | |
| 9/16 | L5 Path Variables (2.1.1), Video (Links to an external site.), Slides, PCA based on the video. | HW3, HW #2 due PCA #1 Due |
| 9/18 | L5 Path Variables Continued: Parametric Description of Curves (part of 2.1.2) & Simultaneous Kinematical Descriptions (2.4), Video (Links to an external site.) | |
| 9/21 | Work on HW#3 and Project #1 in class – bring any Matlab questions. | |
| 9/23 | L6 Velocity & Accel. Using Moving Ref. Frame (3.5), Video, (Links to an external site.)HW#5P1-2 | HW4, HW #3 due |
| 9/25 | – examples (merry go round, airplane propeller), FW Live Lecture (MerryGoRound download , MerryGoRound2 download , Propeller download ) | |
| 9/28 | – Selecting Reference Frames, Ginsberg Example 3.11, MEMS Gyro, MSA Live Lecture, Exam #1 Focuses on material up to this point | DP #1 Due |
| 9/30 | L7 Motion Relative to a Moving Ref. Frame (Earth) (3.6), Video (Links to an external site.), Slides, HW#5P3 | HW5, HW #4 due |
| 10/2 | L8 Rigid Body Kinematics (4.0-4.1), Interconnections (4.3), Video (Links to an external site.), Slides, Kammer Notes (see p. 70), HW#5P4 | |
| 10/5 | L9 Euler Angles (4.2), FW Live Lecture, (notes download ) HW#5P5 | |
| 10/7 | Roll without Slip (4.3), L10 Kinetics of Systems of Particles (5.1.1, 5.1.2), MSA Live Lecture | HW6, HW #5 due |
| 10/9 | -Derivative of Angular Momentum (5.2.1-2,5.3), FW Live Lecture ( EMA_542_Lec10a_AngMom.pdf download ) | |
| 10/12 | Review for Exam #1 | |
| 10/14 | Exam #1 – (w, a, velocity & acceleration) | |
| 10/16 | -Kinetics of Rigid Bodies (Video Lecture (Links to an external site.), Slides) | |
| 10/19 | -Graphical interpretation of angular momentum, MSA Live Lecture | |
| 10/21 | Review Exam #1 (Live) | HW7, HW #6 due |
| 10/23 | -examples, FW Live Lecture EMA_542_Lec10c_examples.pdf download | |
| 10/26 | – Static and Dynamic Imbalance, Video (Links to an external site.) | |
| 10/28 | -examples, FW Live Lecture EMA542_example6p2.pdf download | HW8, HW #7 due |
| 10/30 | Euler’s equations & Gyro Turn Indicator Eq. of Motion, MSA Live Lecture, Notes 10/30-11/4 (also see slides on 10/16) | |
| 11/2 | Newton’s Laws for Systems (6.3), MSA Live Lecture | |
| 11/4 | Vehicle example, MSA Live Lecture | HW #8 due |
| 11/6 | Cone Example (Ginsberg 2nd ed. 5.27), FW Live Lecture EMA542_exercise_6-23.pdf download | HW9 Assigned |
| 11/9 | Spherical Gyro (roll without slip example), MSA Live Lecture | Final Design Project: Project_Drone_F2020_v2.pdf download Assigned |
| 11/11 | Stresses due to dynamic motion (review of EMA 303), MSA Live Lecture | |
| 11/13 | Non-uniform gyro example, MSA Live Lecture, Notes past 3 lectures | HW10, HW #9 due |
| 11/16 | Open period to work HW#10, Matlab Example Spherical Gyro, Video Announcements/Lecture | |
| 11/18 | Lec: Impulse-Momentum MSA Live Lecture, Open period to work HW#10, Football Video Link (Links to an external site.), Notes | HW11 Assigned |
| 11/20 | Lec: Helicopter/Drone Dynamics 101, MSA Live Lecture | HW #10 due |
| 11/23 | Open period to work on design projects | |
| 11/25 | (no attendance taken) Open period to work on design projects | |
| 11/27 | – No Class: Thanksgiving Recess – | |
| 11/30 | Open period to work on design projects | Final Project Analysis Due (HW #11 due) |
| 12/2 | Review for Exam | |
| 12/4 | Exam #2 – (Newton-Euler Kinetics) | |
| 12/7 | Open period to work on design projects L11 Analytical Mechanics pt. 1 (7.1-7.4) (5.1.3 – KE) – DELETED, take EMA 642 to learn this. | |
| 12/9 | Open period to work on design projects | |
| 12/15 | Final Projects Due at Final Exam Period | Final Project Due |
