Basics of Mechanical : what is mechanical engineering, pounds force and pounds mass, temperature, scrutinizing analytical formulas and results, forces in structures, degrees of freedom, moments of forces, type of forces and moments of force, stresses, strains and material properties, pressure vessels, bending of beams, buckling of columns, fluid mechanics, equations of fluid motion, viscous effects, thermal and energy systems, conservation of energy first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, engines cycles and efficiency.