Unit details

ENSC2001 Motion

Credit

6 points

Offering

Availability	Location	Mode
Not available in 2022	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Details for undergraduate courses

• Level 2 elective

Content

This unit focuses upon the analysis and prediction of motion in engineering systems. Topics include system identification and modelling; conservation and accounting principles; and the application of these techniques to electrical circuits, particles, rigid bodies and fluids. Students learn to solve problems using a systems approach.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) define a suitable system and system boundary to allow engineering problems to be solved; (2) articulate the role of each component of a system in relation to the whole; (3) make appropriate assumptions to develop a system model; (4) draw schematics and free body diagrams to represent a model, and select a suitable reference frame and time scale to analyse behaviour; (5) apply conservation laws and accounting principles to simple electrical, fluid and mechanical systems; (6) evaluate differences between predicted and measured behaviour; (7) use discourse conventions relevant to the discipline; (8) locate and evaluate technical literature; (9) communicate working clearly and concisely in oral, written and visual forms; and (10) work effectively in a team and take responsibility for team outcomes.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) readiness assurance; (2) project; and (3) examinations. Further information is available in the unit outline.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:

• Are in good academic standing overall;
• Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
• Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
• Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
• No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.

Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Paul Stanwix

Unit rules

Prerequisites:

ENSC1002 Material Behaviour from Atoms to Bridges and (MATH1001 Mathematical Methods 1 or MATH1011 Multivariable Calculus)

Co-requisites:

MATH1002 Mathematical Methods 2 (for students who have completed MATH1001 Mathematical Methods 1); none (for students who have completed MATH1011 Multivariable Calculus)

Incompatibility:

Nil.

Contact hours

lectures: 14 hours; information sessions: 2 hours per week; workshops: 2 hours per week

Recommended
reading

Beer, F. et al. Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics (SI): McGraw-Hill 2010

Cimbala, J. M. and Cengel, Y. A. Essentials of Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications: McGraw-Hill 2007

Glover, C. et al. Conservation Principles and the Structure of Engineering: McGraw-Hill 1996

Rizzoni, G. Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, 5th edn: McGraw-Hill 2007