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SYDE 182Physics 2: Dynamics

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Systems Design Engineering

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Kinematics of particles, rectilinear and curvilinear motion. Kinetics of particles, application to space mechanics. Energy and momentum methods. Systems of particles. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies; planar motion.

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

  • Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
    • BME182 - Physics 2: Dynamics (0.50)
    • MTE182 - Physics 2: Dynamics (0.50)

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Reviewed on UW Flow

40% liked it30% easy73% useful

From 151 ratings and 23 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Fuck this course. Probably super important, but if you have Eihab you better understand his convoluted explanations or you're just fucked. Dude provides zero practice content, actively holds it back because it would be "unfair", doesn't bother spending time clarifying, you get the idea. Had a mandatory $50 fee for WileyPlus which is just a god awful site that doesn't even help you with the content. Man, I am not looking forward to any course with this as a requirement. Did I mention he stole the project from Kubica, made it about three times more difficult with vague objectives, and then bitched about how we were bad students because we couldn't make assumptions on what he wanted while he…

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  • Decent course if only the prof was helpful. Unfortunately, there seems to be a CORRELATION between physics courses and shitty profs. Pray to Almighty Allah if you get Eihab Abdel-Rahaman.

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  • You pray for a good professor. It can be a very useful course for the future and not a very hard course IF WELL LEARNT under a good professor. If you have a bad prof, you are DEAD.

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  • Very important course. Sad that it was ruined by terrible professor.

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  • Not the most difficult in the beginning. Post midterm, it gets quite difficult. Project was brutal. Exams are fair.

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

6 posts and comments in 5 threads mention SYDE 182, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

Fall 2020

Winter 2020

[Serious] What should I expect from TRON? 36 points, 34 comments

u/tron_or_ece_hmm: “… ME: 119, 219, SYDE-182, 309, ME-321, ME-351, 322 ECE: 120, 262, 220, SYDE-252, 320, 325, ECE-484 I've read rants about many MTE courses, so I'm starting to question the quality of the content. Are they waste? A mess? Superficial? Boring? Fun? Well-structured? Theoretical? …”

u/ApatheticPost: “… Here you'll do hand-sketching, AutoCAD, SolidWorks - MTE 119 and SYDE 182 - Statics and Dynamics: Just foundational physics courses. All engineering programs will take a course or two like this and they're easier than PHYS 111. …”

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Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

u/Jackhofmann: “… 443B SWREN 443R SWREN 470R SYDE 101 SYDE 101L SYDE 111 SYDE 113 SYDE 121 SYDE 161 SYDE 181 SYDE 182 SYDE 202 SYDE 212 SYDE 252 SYDE 262 SYDE 283 SYDE 286 SYDE 292 SYDE 292L SYDE 401 SYDE 411 SYDE 461 SYDE 533 SYDE 543 SYDE 553 SYDE 575 SYDE 631 SYDE 677 SYDE 682 SYDE 740 SYDE …”

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