Mechanisms and Machines: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Synthesis

MECHANISMS AND MACHINES: KINEMATICS, DYNAMICS, AND SYNTHESIS has been
designed to serve as a core textbook for the mechanisms and machines
course, targeting junior level mechanical engineering students. The book
is written with the aim of providing a complete, yet concise, text that
can be covered in a single-semester course. The primary goal of the
text is to introduce students to the synthesis and analysis of planar
mechanisms and machines, using a method well suited to computer
programming, known as the Vector Loop Method. Author Michael Stanisic's
approach of teaching synthesis first, and then going into analysis, will
enable students to actually grasp the mathematics behind mechanism
design. The book uses the vector loop method and kinematic coefficients
throughout the text, and exhibits a seamless continuity in presentation
that is a rare find in engineering texts. The multitude of examples in
the book cover a large variety of problems and delineate an excellent
problem solving methodology