AL1: MWF, 12-1 PM, Campus Instructional Facility | Room 0027/1025

Lecture Recordings

AL2: MWF, 1-2 PM, Campus Instructional Facility | Room 0027/1025

Lecture Recordings

 

Lecture Notes for AL1 and AL2 sections

The official class website is http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/tam210/

In this course, we will cover fundamental concepts that are used in every engineering discipline. We will begin with forces and moments, then we will move toward structural analyses of frames, devices, and machines. By the end, you will be able to solve rigid body mechanics problems that will inform the design of everything from bridges to biomedical devices.

Big Idea:

Clear knowledge of external forces (boundary conditions) is required to determine what constraints are necessary for the safe (static equilibrium) development and design of any widget. Free body diagrams are an essential tool for understanding the forces and moments on a body.

Required: PHYS 211; credit or concurrant registration in MATH 241. Preferred: CS 101 or experience programming in python.

There is no required textbook for this class. However, these texts are very useful:

• Engineering Statics: Open and Interactive by Daniel Baker and William Haynes 
  • A free, open-source textbook
• Also vailable on reserve at Grainger
  • Hibbeler, R.C.; Engineering Mechanics: Statics
  • Beer, Ferdinand P.;   Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics
  • Nelson, E.W. [et al.];   Engineering Mechanics: Statics
  • Nelson, E. W.; Schaum's Outlines Statics, 6th Edition [online electronic resource] (Great study guide resource with many worked examples)

The total score for the course is computed with the following weights:

Retake quizzes: Optional retake quizzes are available in the week following each first-chance quiz. If you choose to take the retake quiz, the quiz score will be 90% of the higher scores + 10% of the lower score (0.9*max(first_chance_score, retake_score)+0.1*min(first_chance_score, retake_score)). If you do not take the first-chance-quiz, then your score will be 90% of the retake score.

A cumulative exam will be held for all students (TAM 210 and 211 students) during week 12 after the completion of TAM 210 lecture materials. There will be no additional cumulative exam for TAM 211 students at the end of the semester; they will take additional quizzes only for the remaining topics.

The total score s corresponds to final grades as follows.

97% ≤ s < 100%	A+	93% ≤ s < 97%	A	90% ≤ s < 93%	A-
87% ≤ s < 90%	B+	83% ≤ s < 87%	B	80% ≤ s < 83%	B-
77% ≤ s < 80%	C+	73% ≤ s < 77%	C	70% ≤ s < 73%	C-
67% ≤ s < 70%	D+	63% ≤ s < 67%	D	60% ≤ s < 63%	D-
s < 60%	F

Discussion sections are held according to the schedule below in LuMEB 0023.

Professor Halloran: office hours by appointment. 

The teaching and course assistant holds office hours in LuMEB 3100, according to the schedule below. Office hours start from the second week on Aug. 31st. 

TAs and CAs monitor Campuswire according to the following schedule:

Quiz reviews take place Mondays and Tuesdays 10am-12pm on certain weeks according to the course schedule.