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  2. Chasles' theorem (kinematics) - Wikipedia

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    Whittaker suggests that line AK be selected parallel to the axis of the given rotation, with K the foot of a perpendicular from B. The appropriate screw displacement is about an axis parallel to AK such that K is moved to B. In Whittaker's terms, "A rotation about any axis is equivalent to a rotation through the same angle about any axis ...

  3. Piston motion equations - Wikipedia

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    For rod length 6" and crank radius 2" (as shown in the example graph below), numerically solving the acceleration zero-crossings finds the velocity maxima/minima to be at crank angles of ±73.17615°. Then, using the triangle law of sines, it is found that the rod-vertical angle is 18.60647° and the crank-rod angle is 88.21738°. Clearly, in ...

  4. Screw theory - Wikipedia

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    A twist is a screw used to represent the velocity of a rigid body as an angular velocity around an axis and a linear velocity along this axis. All points in the body have the same component of the velocity along the axis, however the greater the distance from the axis the greater the velocity in the plane perpendicular to this axis.

  5. Slider-crank linkage - Wikipedia

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    Then, using the triangle sine law, it is found that the crank to connecting rod angle is 88.21738° and the connecting rod angle is 18.60647° from vertical (see Piston motion equations#Example). When the crank is driven by the connecting rod, a problem arises when the crank is at top dead centre (0°) or bottom dead centre (180°).

  6. Rigid body dynamics - Wikipedia

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    In the physical science of dynamics, rigid-body dynamics studies the movement of systems of interconnected bodies under the action of external forces.The assumption that the bodies are rigid (i.e. they do not deform under the action of applied forces) simplifies analysis, by reducing the parameters that describe the configuration of the system to the translation and rotation of reference ...

  7. Wittgenstein's rod - Wikipedia

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    If B remains on the same side of S with respect to the center of the circle, instead of a ray one can consider just a segment or the rod AB. Wittgenstein sketched a mechanism and wrote: While the point A describes a circle, B describes a figure eight. Now we write this down as a proposition of kinematics.

  8. Rotation around a fixed axis - Wikipedia

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    Rotation around a fixed axis or axial rotation is a special case of rotational motion around an axis of rotation fixed, stationary, or static in three-dimensional space. This type of motion excludes the possibility of the instantaneous axis of rotation changing its orientation and cannot describe such phenomena as wobbling or precession .

  9. Instant centre of rotation - Wikipedia

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    The displacement can be viewed as a rotation around this pole. Construction for the pole of a planar displacement. First, select two points A and B in the moving body and locate the corresponding points in the two positions; see the illustration. Construct the perpendicular bisectors to the two segments A 1 A 2 and B 1 B 2. The intersection P ...