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Mechanics (3 cr)

Code: TKV22ME02-3005

General information


Enrollment

15.06.2025 - 19.10.2025

Timing

20.10.2025 - 21.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Faculty of Technology and Seafaring

Teaching languages

  • Svenska

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Civil and Construction Engineering
  • Degree Programme in Land Surveying

Teachers

  • Anders Skjäl

Teacher in charge

Leif Östman

Groups

  • BYL25D-V
    Ingenjör (YH), lantmäteriteknik, 2025 dagstudier
  • BYB25D-V
    Byggmästare (YH), h25, dagstudier, Vasa
  • BYS25D-V
    Ingenjör (YH), byggnads- och samhällsteknik, 2025 Vasa, dagstudier

Objective

After passing the course the student can apply basic physics concepts such as power, torque and energy to bodies in motion and in equilibrium.

Content

Unit conversions, formulas
Graphical descriptions of movement
Velocity, acceleration
Vectors in physics
Curvilinear motion and normal acceleration
Forces and Newton's laws
Energy, work, the work-energy principle
Power and efficiency
Torques
Center of mass
Mechanical equilibrium

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students fulfill the objectives of the course, and in the relevant realization compulsory parts, at a satisfactory level.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students fulfill the objectives of the course, and in the relevant realization compulsory parts, at a good level.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students fulfill the objectives of the course, and in the relevant realization compulsory parts, at an excellent level.

Qualifications

None