Course Outline

The course will likely 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,
• Systems governed by partial differential equations. Classification and corresponding fundamental differences between vibration, unsteady heat conduction, fluid flow and other problems and solution procedures.