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Matter : Elments of mechanics
Target public: First year common core (engineering cycle)
Semestre: 1
Teaching Unit: UEF 1.2
Credit: 7
Coefficient: 4
Duration: 15 weeks
Weekly timetable: - 1h 30 min of course
- 3h for tutorial group
Place of teaching: Lecture hall 3
Evaluation methods: - Final exam 60%
- Short tests 20%
- Practical work 20%
Contact form
Institute : Science and Technology
Department: Common Core Department of Science and Technology
Responsable of matter
Salim AOULMIT 
s.aoulmit@centre-univ-mila.dzAvailability: every Monday from 9:30am-12am in office 17 (block 4)
Teaching objectives
Introduce the student to the basics of the mechanics of point through three main parts:
- kinematics
- dynamics
- work and energy
Table of content
Chapter 1: Fundamental concepts
· Dimensional analysis
· Vector calculation (scalar product, cross product).
· Derivation and integration of vectors.
Chapter 2: Kinematics of material point
· Position vector in coordinate systems (Cartesian, cylindrical, spherical, curvilinear)
· Velocity and acceleration in coordinate systems.
· Trajectory.
· Movement of the material point in the different coordinate systems.
· Relative movement.
Chapter 3: Dynamics of Material Point
· Generality: Mass - Force - Moment of force – Absolute and Galilean Reference.
· Principle of conservation of momentum
· Newton's laws.
· Differential equation of motion.
· Kinetic momentum.
· Applications of the fundamental law for forces
Chapter 3: Work and Energy
· Work of a force.
· Kinetic Energy.
· Potential energy.
· Conservative and non-conservative forces
· Total energy theorem.