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Foundational engineering models, linked to executable implementations and galleries.
Structures and Machines
Members, sections, beams on any supports, columns, stress and strain at a point, pressure vessels, energy methods, trusses, frames, cables and arches.
Rigid-body motion, Lagrange’s equations, machine elements, mechanisms, cams and multi-degree-of-freedom vibration.
Energy and Flow
Ideal and real gases, mixtures, the two laws, steady-flow devices, engine and refrigeration cycles, exergy, steam properties, psychrometrics and combustion.
Hydrostatics, flow measurement, momentum, pipe friction, drag, similarity, open channels, pumps and networks.
Conduction, convection, radiation, fins and heat exchangers.
Airfoil and wing baselines, drag polars and compressible flow.
Circuits, Signals and Control
DC and AC circuits, transients, electronics, machines and power systems.
Classical stability, compensator design, PID with anti-windup, nonlinear loops, state feedback, LQR and estimation.
Sampling and rate conversion, the FFT and DCT, spectra and AR models, IIR and FIR design, adaptive filters.
Modulation and pulse shaping, noise, capacity, detection, PCM, source and channel coding, fading and link budgets.
Materials and Reliability
Crystals and diffusion, elastic constants, hardness, yield criteria, composites and laminates, fatigue and notches, fracture, creep and dislocation plasticity.
Lifetimes and life data, accelerated testing, networks, structural reliability, FMEA, fault trees and maintenance.