Dynamics and Control I

Where ME 240 (Statics) ended with bodies that don't move, this course is about predicting how they do — deriving equations of motion for particles, particle systems, and rigid bodies in planar motion, then graduating from Newton-Euler bookkeeping to the Lagrangian formalism that handles constraints cleanly. You'll spend most of your time solving problem sets by hand: free-body diagrams, momentum and energy principles, generalized coordinates, and finally the linearization and frequency-domain response of 1-DOF vibrating systems. It's the analytical backbone for ME 342 (Control), MECH electives in vibrations and robotics, and any graduate work touching multibody dynamics — get fluent here or everything downstream hurts.