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EML 5060 - Analysis In Mechanical Engineering - Fall 1998
Van Dommelen
- CATALOG DESCRIPTION
- This course will familiarize students with methods of analysis
in mechanical engineering. Surveys applications of integration
and series, ordinary and partial differential equations, and linear
algebra.
- CREDIT HOURS
- 3
- PREREQUISITES
- Graduate/Senior standing in Mechanical Engineering.
(Assumes undergraduate exposure to calculus,
and ordinary differential equations,
and to some Fourier series, Laplace transforms, linear algebra,
and separation of variables for partial differential equations.)
- TEXTBOOKS
- The following textbooks will be used:
- 1.
- Ayres, Frank Jr & Mendelson, Elliott, Calculus Schaum's Outline
Series (McGraw-Hill) 3th edition 1990. ISBN 0-07-002662-9
- 2.
- Lipschutz, Seymour, Linear Algebra Schaum's Outline Series
(McGraw-Hill) 2nd edition 1991. ISBN 0-07-038007-4
- 3.
- Bronson, Richard, Differential Equations Schaum's Outline Series
(McGraw-Hill) 2nd edition 1994. ISBN 0-07-008019-4
- 4.
- DuChateau, Paul & Zachmann, David W, Partial Differential
Equations Schaum's Outline Series (McGraw-Hill) 1986. ISBN
0-07-017897-6
- INSTRUCTOR
- Dr. Leon Van Dommelen
http://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/dommelen.
dommelen@eng.famu.fsu.edu
Contact me.
Office: 2:45-3:45 pm T, 5:15-6:00 pm W, 2:00-3:00 pm F in 242 CEB
Phone: (850) 487-6324/6331. I tend to forget to check my voice mail.
- TA
- Brent Greska. office MWF 3:30-4:30, location TBA.
- TIMES
- Class: MWF 10:45-11:35 (not 11:30)
08/28/98 Test 1 due
09/02/98 HW Calc I due
09/09/98 HW Calc II due
09/16/98 EXAM I CALCULUS
09/21/98 HW Lin I due
09/28/98 HW Lin II due
10/05/98 HW Lin III due
10/09/98 HW Lin IV due
10/16/98 EXAM II LINEAR ALGEBRA
10/21/98 HW ODE I due
10/26/98 HW ODE II due
11/02/98 EXAM III ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
11/06/98 HW PDE I due
11/16/98 HW PDE II due
11/23/98 HW PDE III due
12/02/98 HW PDE IV due
12/04/98 HW PDE V due
12/11/98 Final 10:00-12:00 noon Friday (Note: FSU schedule applies.)
- GOALS
- Provide experience in applying methods of mathematical analysis to
engineering problems. Emphasizes independent analysis using reference
works. Expands insight into engineering analysis.
- COURSE OUTLINE
- The course will cover:
-
Basic procedures.
Calculus and its application to optimization, estimation of area,
volume and moments of inertia, approximation procedures, velocity and
force fields.
-
Linear systems.
Linear algebra and its application to the determination of static
loads, static determinacy, principal axes, and natural frequencies.
-
Systems governed by ordinary differential equations.
Problems giving rise to ordinary differential equations, their
classification and solution procedures,
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Systems governed by partial differential equations.
Classification and corresponding fundamental differences between
vibration, unsteady heat conduction, fluid flow and other problems and
solution procedures.
- METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
- Lectures, problem solving sessions, examinations.
- STUDENT EVALUATION
- The course grade will be computed as:
- 05% Test 1 (Separate handout).
- 30% Homework (See requirements below.)
- 15% Exam 1 (Loosely based on the homework, but more applied.)
- 15% Exam 2 (Loosely based on the homework, but more applied.)
- 15% Exam 3 (Loosely based on the homework, but more applied.)
- 20% Final (Loosely based on the homework, but more applied.)
Grading is at the discretion of the instructor. He prefers Ds
above Cs.
- IMPORTANT GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
-
- 1.
- Immediately check the dates listed above for any conflicts.
- 2.
- Homework must be handed in at the start of the lecture at which
it is due. It may not be handed in at the departmental office
or at the end of class.
Homework that is not received at the start of class on the due date
listed above cannot be made up unless permission to hand in late has
been given before the homework is due, or it was not humanly
possible to ask for such permission before the class. If there is a
chance you may be late in class, hand the homework in to the
instructor the day before it is due. (Shove it under his door if
necessary.)
- 3.
- Unless the instructor states otherwise, all remaining questions
of the homework set are due.
- 4.
- Homework should be neat.
- 5.
- Students are bound by the rules and regulations in their
University bulletin, as well as by those specified in this syllabus,
and by the usual standards applied by the College of Engineering.
Read your academic bulletin. Violations of the rules and regulations
in your bulletin may result in reduced grades and/or other actions.
- 6.
- Students are bound by the honor code of their university. It
requires you to uphold academic integrity and combat academic
dishonesty. Please see your student handbook. Violations of your
honor code may result in reduced grades and/or other actions.
- 7.
- Copying of homework, assignments, or tests is never
allowed and will result in a failing or zero grade for the copied
work. It will also result in a failing or zero grade of the person
whose work is being copied if that person could reasonably have
prevented the copying. However, working together is typically
allowed and encouraged for most homeworks, (and sometimes for other
take-home assignments,) as long as you present the final results in
your own words and using your own line of reasoning. Since close
similarities between solutions will reduce credit, it is better not
to formally put down anything until you have figured out the
problem, and then let each person write their own solution. If it
is unclear whether working together is allowed on any assignment,
check with the instructor beforehand.
- 8.
- Attendance is required. Exams missed, even when rescheduled
from the original date and surprise tests, or homework not handed in
on time due to unexcused absence or lateness will result in a zero
grade for that exam and/or homework. Failure to properly complete
homework, tests, assignments, etcetera due to changes in date,
assignment, etcetera, that you did not know about due to unexcused
absence, lateness, or inattentiveness will not be excused and
cannot be made up.
- 9.
- In undergraduate classes, the total grade is further reduced due
to unexcused absences or lateness. See the instructor for details.
Even a few absences will make it impossible to pass the class.
Typically, four unexcused absences result in an F grade regardless of
numerical performance. Conscientious attendance is required for a
confident determination of your mastery of the subject matter to be
made. In other words, this class cannot be taken like a DIS unless a
faculty member will allow you to do so under formal DIS rules with
appropriately modified grading and testing standards.
- 10.
- The College of Engineering has a restrictive interpretation of
what is considered a valid excuse for an absence. If an absence is
to be excused, make sure you at least get official confirmation by
phone that it will be granted beforehand.
- 11.
- The instructor will make sure that make-up tests are no simpler
than the original, but he will try to make them similarly difficult.
However, he cannot make allowances for increased difficulty due to
the small sample size.
- 12.
- The College of Engineering has a more restrictive drop-add
period than you might think based on your bulletin. Check both your
bulletin and the Dean's office to determine whether drop-add will be
allowed.
- 13.
- Some of these rules may not apply if you fall under the
Americans with Disabilities Act. FAMU students with disabilities
needing academic accommodations should contact Student Health
Services for confirmation of permanent physical disability, FSU
students should register with and provide documentation to the
Student Disability Resource Center. Next bring a letter to the
instructor from the Services or Center indicating you need academic
accommodations. This should be done during the first week of
classes.
- 14.
- The instructor might wave some regulation on a case-by-case
basis depending on his subjective determination of fairness and
appropriateness. This will occur only under exceptional
circumstances and should not be assumed. Especially, never assume
that a seemingly minor regulation will be waved because the
instructor has waved it in the past. A second appeal to wave a
minor regulation will probably indicate to the instructor that the
regulation is not being taken seriously and most likely refused.
Any appeal to the instructor will further be refused apriori unless
it is done at the earliest possible moment by phone and/or by
E-mail. Do not wait until you are back in town, say.
- COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS
- Students must have an E-mail address and regularly check their E-mail.
Students must be able to use a Web browser such as Netscape. The class
web page can be accessed at
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