16 001 - Unified Engineering I

Institution:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Subject:

Description:

001 and 16.002 require simultaneous registration. Presents fundamental principles and methods of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationship and applications, through lectures, recitations, design problems, and labs. Materials and structures, including statics, analysis of trusses, the analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate systems, and the stress-strain behavior of materials. Fluid mechanics, including conservation laws for fluid flows, the integral momentum theorem and applications, potential flow, vorticity and circulation, and the characterization of airfoil performance. Thermodynamics, including the thermodynamic state of a system, work, heat and various forms of energy, the first law of thermodynamics, heat engines, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics. Signals and systems, including linear and time invariant systems, convolution, and transform analysis.

Credits:

5.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

Prereq: Physics II (GIR); Coreq: 18.03 or 18.034; Chemistry (GIR)

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

web.mit.edu/student/

Phone Number:

(617) 253-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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