Hey!!! Centroid of Plane Figures is just a topic of Unit 4 of PART – A of Elements of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics of VTU e-Learning Centre, Mysore other topics of PART A are:

Unit-I
1. Introduction to Civil Engineering, Scope of different field of Civil Engineering - Surveying, Building Materials, Construction Technology, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Hydraulics, Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering.
Infrastructure: Types of infrastructure, Role of Civil Engineer in the Infrastructural Development, Effect of the infrastructural facilities on socio-economic development of a country.

2. Roads: Type of roads, Components and their functions.

3. Bridges and Dams: Different types with simple sketches.

Unit -II

4. Introduction to Engineering mechanics: Basic idealisations - Particle, Continuum, Rigid body and Point force; Newton's laws of motion, Definition of force, Introduction to SI units, Elements of a force, Classification of force and force systems; Principle of physical independence of forces, Principle of superposition of forces, Principle of transmissibility of forces; Moment of a force, couple, moment of a couple, characteristics of couple, Equivalent force - couple system; Resolution of forces, composition of forces; Numerical problems on moment of forces and couples, on equivalent force - couple system.

Unit -III

5. Composition of forces - Definition of Resultant; Composition of coplanar - concurrent force system, Principle of resolved parts; Numerical problems on composition of coplanar concurrent force systems.

6.Composition of coplanar - non-concurrent force system, Varignon's principle of moments; Numerical problems on composition of coplanar non-concurrent force systems.

Unit -IV
7. Centroid of plane figures; Locating the centroid of triangle, semicircle, quadrant of a circle and sector of a circle using method of integration, Centroid of simple built up sections; Numerical problems.

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