Syllabus — Engineering Mechanics (ICT-107)
Official GGSIPU syllabus for the B.Tech 2026-30 batch (first year, under USICT), applicable from the academic session 2026-27.
L 3 C 3
Teachers Continuous Evaluation: 40 marks. Term-End Semester Examination: 60 marks.
Course outcomes
- Ability to solve problems pertaining to force systems, equilibrium and distributed systems.
- Ability to solve problems of friction and engineering trusses.
- Ability to deal with the problems of kinematics and kinetics of particle
- Ability to deal with the problems of kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies.
Unit I
Force System: Introduction, force, principle of transmissibility of force, resultant of a force system, resolution of a force, moment of force about a line, Varignon’s theorem, couple, resolution of force into force and a couple, properties of couple and their application to engineering problems. Equilibrium: Force body diagram, equations of equilibrium and their applications to engineering problems, equilibrium of two force and three force members.
Unit II
Structure: Plane truss, perfect and imperfect truss, assumption in the truss analysis, analysis of perfect plane trusses by the method of joints, method of section and graphical method. Friction: Static and Kinetic friction, laws of dry friction, co-efficient of friction, angle of friction, angle of repose, cone of friction, frictional lock, friction in flat pivot and collar bearing, friction in flat belts.
Unit III
Kinematics of Particles: Rectilinear motion, plane curvilinear motion, rectangular coordinates, normal and tangential coordinates. Kinetics of Particles: Equation of motion, rectilinear motion and curvilinear motion, work-energy equation, conservation of energy, concept of impulse and momentum, conservation of momentum, impact of bodies, co-efficient of restitution, loss of energy during impact.
Unit IV
Kinematics of Rigid Bodies: Concept of rigid body, types of rigid body motion, absolute motion, introduction to relative velocity, relative acceleration (Corioli’s component excluded) and instantaneous center of zero velocity, Velocity and acceleration. Kinetics of Rigid Bodies: Equation of motion, translatory motion and fixed axis rotation, application of work energy principles to rigid bodies conservation of energy.
Textbooks
- Engineering Mechanics by A.K.Tayal, Umesh Publications.
References
- Engineering Mechanics' by K. L. Kumar, Tata Mc-Graw Hill
- Engineering Mechanics' by S. Timoshenko, D. H. Young, J. V. Rao, Tata Mc-Graw Hill
- Engineering Mechanics-Statics and Dynamics' by Irwing H. Shames, PHI.
- Engineering Mechanics' by Basudev Bhattacharya, Oxford Higher Education.