CEC 101 Structural Mechanics

ND1 levelEngineering & Technology15 topics

CEC 101 covers 15 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Free body diagrams
Systems of forces
Types of loads
Static equilibrium of structures
Reactions and moments
Friction forces and equilibrants
Components of forces
Newton’s laws of motion
Impulse, momentum and kinetic energy
Velocity and acceleration analysis
Relative velocity and acceleration
Member forces in frames
Methods of joints, sections and tension coefficients
Graphical analysis of frames
Analysis of simple roof trusses

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Free body diagrams

Free body diagrams (FBDs) are the foundational tool for analysing forces in structural mechanics. They isolate a part of a structure, represent all external forces and moments acting on it, and provide the basis for applying equilibrium equations. Mastering FBDs ensures accurate problem‑solving for the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams.

What you get for CEC 101

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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