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Civil Engineering as a stream focuses its attention into the engineering of infrastructure while Engineering Mechanics as specialized field under this goes an additional step further to ensure there is no injunction between theory and its application. Basing the fundamentals on Newton’s laws of motion, this kind of engineering is necessary for the formulation of new ideas, theorems, inventions. Some of the main topics taught under this are Parallelogram law of forces, Impulse-momentum equation, law of mass and gravity, ways to calculate the resultant force of systems, centre of gravity and centroid of are and conditions under which both these pairs coincide, concept of couple and the way it is classified, coplanar concurrent forces, distinction between statistics and dynamics, calculations of inertia of a circle, speed and velocity, parallel axis theorem, scalar quantity and its examples, coefficient of state function, curvilinear motion, Newton’s laws of motion, potential energy, moment of force about a point.