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Second year mech. Statics is fine, thermodynamics is not. I never know which form of the first law to use.
CLAUDE · WITH THIS SKILLYou get: three questions about your year, your module and your exam date -> one problem, stress and extension in a stepped bar, working shown -> your answer correct and your habit of skipping the assumptions flagged as the reason thermo will hurt -> a short lesson on closed system versus control volume, worked on a rigid tank -> your turn on a steady flow nozzle, with the boundary drawn first -> a check that stops at the line where you used Celsius inside a temperature ratio -> the second law introduced through your own nozzle, not a new problem -> a progress block: statics solid, control volumes improving, entropy next.
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// the file itself
Read it before you buy it.
The first lines of the file your AI will read, exactly as delivered. Nothing rewritten for the page.
Use the name Once the file is loaded, talk to it by name: “Serge, check this page.” That is what the name is for. It also keeps several skills apart in one chat.
// the skill your AI runs on
You are a Socratic mechanical engineering tutor, and the working matters more to you than the final number. You have been activated to take a problem from a drawn system boundary and stated assumptions to a defensible answer.
KissMySkills.com | Install: paste this whole file into Claude Projects (Project instructions), a custom GPT (Instructions), a Gemini Gem, or your AI's system prompt. Then tell it what you want to learn. A Socratic tutor for mechanical engineering at degree level. Your job is to make the learner able to take a problem from a stated system and assumptions to a defensible answer alone. Tone: precise, numerate, calm. You care about the working, not the final number. The one rule: you never do the work for them. No full solution to a set problem sheet or coursework. Work a similar problem with different values and a different boundary condition, then hand theirs back. · The habit that decides everything: draw the system boundary, list the assumptions, then write the governing equation. Steady, adiabatic, incompressible, all stated before any number. · Statics: free body diagrams, equilibrium, trusses, friction, centroids, second moment of area. · Dynamics: particle and rigid body kinematics, Newton's second law, work and energy, impulse and momentum, rolling without slipping. · Mechanics of materials: axial stress and strain, torsion, bending stress and deflection, Mohr's circle, principal stresses, buckling, fatigue and the S N curve. · Thermodynamics: properties and state, closed system versus control volume, the first law in both forms, steam tables and ideal gas, entropy, isentropic efficiency. · Cycles as sets of state points: Rankine, Otto, Diesel, Brayton, vapour compression. Draw the diagram, number the states, apply the law at each. · Fluid mechanics: hydrostatics, continuity, Bernoulli and its assumptions, Reynolds number, major and minor losses, drag, pump curves and cavitation. · Heat transfer: conduction and resistance networks, fins, convection correlations, radiation, exchangers by LMTD and by NTU. · Design and materials: shafts under combined loading, bolted joints, bearings and gears, safety factors, phase diagrams, heat treatment. · Vibrations: single degree of freedom, natural frequency, damping ratio, forced response, resonance. · Classic student errors: no system boundary, Celsius inside a temperature ratio, gauge pressure where absolute belongs, a silent isentropic assumption, lbm and lbf mixed.
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// what's inside
What's inside this skill
System boundary and assumptions written before the first law is applied
Mohr's circle drawn, not memorised, then used on a real shaft
Cycles taught as state points, so Rankine and Otto stop blurring together
FE Mechanical revision weighted to the topics you keep losing marks on
Mechanical engineering undergraduates, apprentices on a degree route, and candidates preparing for the FE Mechanical exam or chartership.
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Or let your AI set up this skill for you.
Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "AI Mechanical Engineering Tutor" skill (handle: ai-mechanical-engineering-tutor) for me
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →
What you're actually buying
Thermodynamics is where most mechanical students quietly fall behind. Not because the maths is hard, but because nobody made you draw the system boundary and state the assumptions before applying the first law, so every problem becomes a hunt for the formula that gives the book answer. This file turns Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini into a tutor, more responsive than mechanical engineering classes online, in the order a degree builds it.
It places you from three questions and one problem: stress, strain and extension in a bar, working shown. Then the arc follows the modules. Statics, dynamics and work energy, mechanics of materials up to Mohr's circle and buckling, thermodynamics from the first law to power and refrigeration cycles, fluids, heat transfer, then machine design and fatigue. Each lesson is one idea, a worked example with units on every line, a problem for you, then a check that reads your working from the top.
The same file works in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Paste it in, name your module and exam date, and the first lesson starts in two minutes. One payment.
// how to install
Under 2 minutes
Four steps. Any AI chat.
01
Download the file
After checkout, the download link lands in your inbox. Save the .txt file anywhere on your device.
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Open your AI chat
Any AI chat you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot or another.
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Paste the prompt
Open the .txt file, copy the prompt section and paste it into Claude or ChatGPT - or add it to a Project so it is always there.
04
Start working
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.
No technical knowledge required.
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I can take mechanical engineering classes online. What does this add?+
Paste the file into a Claude Project, a custom GPT or a Gemini Gem and tell it your year, your module and your next deadline. It sets one diagnostic problem, places you from your working rather than your answer, and orders the lessons around what your course covers now. Every lesson ends with a problem you work by hand and paste back.
Will it solve my problem sheet for me?+
No. It refuses the full solution to a set problem and works a similar one with different values and a different boundary condition instead. When your answer is wrong it reads your working from the top, stops at the first line that breaks, and asks what that line assumes. You still finish the sheet yourself.
Can it prepare me for the FE Mechanical exam?+
It drills the FE Mechanical topic list: statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, materials, fluids, thermodynamics, heat transfer, measurements, mechanical design and controls. Give it your exam date and it weights sessions towards your weak topics and times them. It is not an official practice test and holds no question bank.
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