Version 1.0, August 31, 2001, Copyright, Hugh Jack 1993-2001

3. POSITIONS/DISPLACEMENTS OF POINTS AND MECHANISMS

 

· The calculation of the position of mechanisms is an essential first step to modeling how they work.

 

· To do the calculations a number of basic mathematical tools are used.

 

 

3.1 MATHEMATICAL TOOLS

3.2 DEFINING POSITIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS

3.3 CLOSED LOOP MECHANISMS

3.4 SOLVING FOR POSITIONS

3.5 GRAPHING OF POSITIONS

3.6 DISPLACEMENT, TRANSLATION AND ROTATION

3.7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS

3.8 REFERENCES