Professor T.R. Akylas; Room 3-362, x3-5356, trakylas@mit.edu
Office hours: MW 10 - 11 am and by appointment

TA: Ben Druecke; Room 3-355, x3-5420, bdruecke@mit.edu
Office hours: T 4 - 6 pm and by appointment

Grader: Yeunwoo Cho; Room 3-355, x3-5420, ywcho@mit.edu

· Homework

There will be about 10 problem sets; typically a new problem set will be posted on the subject website on Wednesday and you will have a week to work on it. Some problems will require the use of a computer, and familiarity with MATLAB would be helpful. No late homework will be accepted. You may discuss the problems with others in class but you must (a) write up your eventual solution independently, and (b) list the names of students with whom you discussed the problem set.

· Exams

There will be two in-class exams. They are scheduled for

Monday, October 15
Wednesday, December 12

Both exams will be closed-book. There will be no final exam.

· Grading

Homework: 20%, Exams: 80%

· Textbook

The course will be based on the material presented in the lectures. There is no required textbook. The following books will be placed on reserve in Barker Library:

· J.H. Ginsberg, Advanced Engineering Dynamics, 2 nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 1998

· S.H. Crandall, D.C. Karnopp, E.F. Kurtz, Jr., and D.C. Pridmore-Brown, Dynamics of Mechanical and Electromechanical Systems , Krieger, 1982