Lectures will be asynchronous, and will be available on mediaspace

Lecture Notes

Lecture Recordings

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:

A cumulative exam will be held for all students (TAM 210 and 211 students) during week 6 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

Professor Wandke: office hours by appointment. 

Teaching and course assistant: office hours are held online, at the corresponding zoom link. Some office hours will also have an optional in-person component . Office hours will start the second week of the semester.

TAs and CAs monitor Campuswire according to the following schedule:

Online Quiz Schedule

Each week, there will be a quiz and a quiz. Students must sign up for one of 3 timeslots to take the quiz. Quiz signups are made via parietest. Quizzes will be proctored on zoom via this zoom link The slots are:

• Thursday at 9am
• Thursday at 3pm
• Thursday at 7pm