THEORY OF MACHINES
AND MECHANISMS
This book is intended to cover that field of engineering theory, analysis, design, and practice that is generally described as mechanisms and kinematics and dynamics of machines. While this text is written primarily for students of engineering, there is much material that can be of value to practicing engineers. After all, a good engineer knows that he or she must remain a student throughout their entire professional career.
The continued tremendous growth of knowledge, including the areas of kinematics and dynamics of machinery, over the past 50 years has resulted in great pressure on the engineering curricula of many schools for the substitution of "modern" subjects for those perceived as weaker or outdated. At some schools, depending on the faculty, this has meant that kinematics and dynamics of machines could only be made available as an elective topic for specialized study by a small number of students; at others it remained a required subject for all mechanical engineering students. At other schools, it was required to take on more design emphasis at the expense of depth in analysis. In all, the times have produced a need for a textbook that satisfies the requirements of new and changing course structures.
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