1. Understanding of how to represent force, moment of force and couple as vectors.

2. Ability of using vector algebra in the analysis of forces, moments and couples.

3. Ability to move a force acting on a rigid body to a parallel position in space.

4. Ability to identify the type of a special force system (e.g. concurrent, coplanar, distributed, parallel, general 3D).

5. Ability to calculate the simplest resultant of a general force system.

6. Ability to adequately represent the effect of a support on a rigid body.

7. Ability to isolate a rigid body from all of its contacts and draw the free body diagram.

8. Ability to handle a group of rigid bodies by using Newton’s third law.

9. Ability to calculate unknown forces or other related unknowns through the use of equilibrium equations for a rigid body that is in equilibrium.

10. Ability to identify a two force member.

11. Understanding of the static indeterminacy.

12. Ability to calculate the internal forces for simple trusses using the method of joints or method of sections.

13. Ability to plot the shear force, bending moment and axial force distribution in beams using the method of sections.

14. Ability to plot the shear force, bending moment, axial force distribution in beams using the differential equations of equilibrium (Summation method).

15. Ability to carry out static force analysis of rigid bodies and simple machines like wedges in dry frictional contact.

16. Ability to perform force analysis of flexible belts in frictional contact.

17. Ability to locate the centroid, center of mass, and center of gravity of a rigid body.

18. Ability to calculate first, second and polar moments of area for various beam cross sections or for any other generic shape.

19. Ability to handle composite surfaces.