This text/reference represents the first balanced treatment of graphical and analytical methods for kinematic analysis and synthesis of linkages (planar and spatial) and higher-pair mechanisms (cams and gears) in a single-volume format. A significant amount of excellent German literature in the field that previously was not available in English provides extra insight into the subject. Plenty of solved problems and exercise problems are included to sharpen your skills and demonstrate how theory is put into practice.

This text/reference represents the first balanced treatment of graphical and analytical methods for kinematic analysis and synthesis of linkages (planar and spatial) and higher-pair mechanisms (cams and gears) in a single-volume format. A significant amount of excellent German literature in the field that previously was not available in English provides extra insight into the subject. Plenty of solved problems and exercise problems are included to sharpen your skills and demonstrate how theory is put into practice.

This text/reference represents the first balanced treatment of graphical and analytical methods for kinematic analysis and synthesis of linkages (planar and spatial) and higher-pair mechanisms (cams and gears) in a single-volume format. A significant amount of excellent German literature in the field that previously was not available in English provides extra insight into the subject. Plenty of solved problems and exercise problems are included to sharpen your skills and demonstrate how theory is put into practice.

This engineering science-based book is one for scholars and enthusiasts of the study of motion and how machines can be made to produce various patterns of movement and effects, although the style is accessible to a lay reader. The book is divided into several chapters, the first of which pays homage to Sir Charles Watt, but also acknowledges debts of gratitude to earlier scientists such as Da Vinci.

CD-ROM contains: Working Model 2D Homework Edition 4.1 -- Working Model simulations -- Author-written programs (including FOURBAR and DYNACAM) -- Scripted Matlab analysis and simulations files -- FE Exam Review for Kinematics and Applied Dynamics.

Sr/grad level text for a second course in mechanisms, kinematics or machine dynamics.

Using computational techniques and a complex variable formulation, this book teaches the student of kinematics to handle increasingly difficult problems in both the analysis and design of mechanisms all based on the fundamental loop closure equation.