Hello and welcome to Engineering 210, Engineering
Mechanics - Statics.
I am Willard Pack and I will be your instructor
for this course.
This is the first in a pair of courses covering
Engineering Mechanics.
In this course, we will work to understand
how forces affect static, rigid bodies.
We will learn how to create free-body diagrams to analyze the forces and the reactions within the rigid bodies.
We will start to explore shear and moment diagrams and will simplify systems to be able to easily analyze them.
This was one of my favorite courses when I
studied engineering and I hope you find it rather enjoyable, too.
