Rigid Body Dynamics For Ocean Engineers

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. General principles in mechanics; position, velocity and acceleration; application of Newton’s laws to rigid body dynamics; kinematics of rectilinear and curvilinear motions; stationary and moving frames of reference; work-energy and impulse momentum principles for applications to ocean engineering systems. Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in MATH 308 or concurrent enrollment; grade of C or better in OCEN 221 .