MIT 2.003SC Engineering Dynamics, Fall 2011 View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/2-003SCF11 Instructor: J. Kim Vandiver License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at ocw.mit.edu
DR. Vandiver, thank for deriving Tangent, Acceleration, Momentum and Torque in Engineering Dynamics. These derivations makes up all the important tools in Dynamics.
The lecture is very good and the way the derivations made out, examples considered is really interesting. This drives me to learn more in the subject. Thank you sir for all the lectures & thanks for the MIT for the course offered. Personally i fell the courses are really highly qualified.
In lectures 2 and 3, the lecturer emphasized that the frame in which a derivative is taken should be specified, as results may differ in the case of rotating frames. When the angular momentum of a particle is discussed, that frame isn't specified. Also, the relative motion of A and O, specifically, whether A is accelerating or rotating with respect to O, aren't specified. Would someone be able to clarify this?
Was wondering at 23:57 the equation states (mass X [Vg/o 2nd frame - Vg/o 2nd frame ] ) . Should'nt it be (mass X [Vg/o final frame - Vg/o initial frame ] )?
So what is the reaction force on the cannon? They all stare blankly. You know, Newton had 3 laws... Blank stares... I'm sitting here thinking... these are MIT students... face palm.
Information density is larger for Vandiver, because it's engineering. I appreciate Vandiver's work far more than Lewin's after struggling for years over MDOF type problems and he just makes the content flow smoother than any other professor I've seen.
