271 Statics 3 hrs. Prerequisites or parallel MA 201, PH 111. Introduction to structure, composition, and properties of solid materials such as metals, polymers, ceramics, semiconductors, and composites. Pure materials, alloys, mixtures, and compounds, including phase diagrams. Typical experiments include microstructure, stress-strain phase diagrams, corrosion, and resistivity.
Emphasis is placed on written reports for each lab experiment.
Students apply uncertainty analysis to the experimental results using principles from probability and statistics. Fundamentals of instrumentation and techniques for measurement of mechanical phenomena such as temperature, flow, pressure, force, strain, displacement, and acceleration. Instrument calibration, measurement standards, computerized data acquisition, statistical error analysis, signal conditioning, and time domain analysis. Includes practical lab experiences using thermocouples, pressure transducers, strain gages, flowmeters, and accelerometers. Basic laws of energy that apply in all branches of engineering and science.