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Great website about mechanisms and kinematics topics 4

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blisus

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Hi!

For those fond of mechanisms and kinematics this is a great site:
Models, tutorials, references, free e-books, etc.


JG
 
Waaaaay kewl!
 
The site is quite interesting as some of the same data is graphed or shown in a set of my father's International Correspondence School Textbooks For Mechanical Engineerig from 1924.
All the principles of elementary mechanics are presented and derived graphically. There is a chapter on Kinematics, forces being the cause of motion.

All the formulas/theorems/theory are presented and proven graphically using only algebra, trigonometry and geometry.

Some of the resolutions of problems of motion and forces in a steam engine are quite complex. I tried to do the graphical solutions on the computer and it presented a few problems. I can just imagine my father or anyone else with nothing more than a scale and compass working these problems out under an oil lamp.
 
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