Loading

BruinTree is an independent student project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by UCLA or the University of California. Where this comes from›

Course information comes from the public UCLA General Catalog. Requisites are read from UCLA’s published wording and can be incomplete or out of date — check the official catalog listing and your department adviser before you enroll.

UCLA, Bruin, and related marks are trademarks of The Regents of the University of California.

Report a problem

Anonymous, and it takes a sentence. This is the main way BruinTree finds out what it has got wrong.

What kind of problem

Sends this page’s address and your browser version. Nothing else.

MECH&AE 102 · MAE 102Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

See treeView official UCLA course listing ↗Find on Bruinwalk ↗

Fundamental concepts of Newtonian mechanics. Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies in two and three dimensions. Impulse-momentum and work-energy relationships. Applications.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Checking the Schedule of Classes…

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisites: course 101, Mathematics 33A, Physics 1A.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

confidence 1.00 · from text
all of
  • MECH&AE 101
  • MATH 33A
  • PHYSICS 1A

Report a problem

About MECH&AE 102. We read UCLA’s requisite wording by machine, and it gets things wrong.

What kind of problem

Sends this page’s address and your browser version. Nothing else.

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MECH&AE 102

  • MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
      • MATH 1Precalculus
    • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
  • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
    • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
      • MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
  • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it

3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 16 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

MECH&AE 102

  • MECH&AE CM140Introduction to Biomechanics
  • MECH&AE 155Intermediate Dynamics
    • MECH&AE C163AKinematics of Robotic Systems
      • MECH&AE C163BDynamics of Robotic Systems1 more beyond
    • MECH&AE 255AAdvanced Dynamicsanother path to it
    • MECH&AE C263AKinematics of Robotic Systems
      • MECH&AE C263BDynamics of Robotic Systems1 more beyond
  • BIOENGR CM140Introduction to Biomechanics
  • MECH&AE 157Basic Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Laboratory
    • MECH&AE 157AAerospace Design Laboratory
    • MECH&AE 157DAerospace Design Laboratory I
      • MECH&AE 157EAerospace Design Laboratory II
  • MECH&AE 157WBasic Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Laboratory with Writing
    • MECH&AE 157AAerospace Design Laboratoryanother path to it
    • MECH&AE 157DAerospace Design Laboratory Ianother path to it
  • BIOENGR CM240Introduction to Biomechanics
  • MECH&AE 161AIntroduction to Astronautics
    • MECH&AE 161BIntroduction to Space Technologyanother path to it
  • MECH&AE 161BIntroduction to Space Technology
    • MECH&AE 161CSpacecraft Design
  • MECH&AE C162AIntroduction to Mechanisms and Mechanical Systems
  • MECH&AE 169AIntroduction to Mechanical Vibrations
    • MECH&AE 255AAdvanced Dynamics
      • MECH&AE 255BMathematical Methods in Dynamics
  • MECH&AE CM240Introduction to Biomechanics
  • MECH&AE 252PPlasma and Ionized Gases
  • MECH&AE 281Microsciences
  • MECH&AE C294BIntroduction to Mechanisms and Mechanical Systems

14 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 28 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.