Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (448 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511751745
Content:
Does a machine run well by virtue of its accuracies, or its freedoms? This work presents an exciting, diagrammatic display of the hidden geometry of freedom and constraint. It bolsters the imaginative design of robots, but applies across all fields of machinery. The figures and their captions comprise alone a self-standing story, and this connects effectively with the rigorously argued text. The seamless combination of the two volumes (1984, 1990) renders the internal cross-referencing (forward and backward within the volumes) easier to look up. The appearance of this paperback is a clear testament to the work's ongoing readership. The term screw theory occurs throughout. This relates (after Ball) to the book's philosophy; and one might equally mention kinetostatics (after Federhofer). An all-pervading, counter-intuitive fact accordingly presents itself: while, analogously, angular velocity relates to force, linear velocity relates to couple. A direct consequence of Freedom in Machinery is a more recent book by the same author. Specifically titled General Spatial Involute Gearing and published in Germany (2003), it exemplifies the many ways in which Freedom in Machinery clarifies the enigmatic field of spatial mechanism. That field continuously expands with the current, continuous thrust of ordinary engineering practice
Content:
V. 1. Introducing screw theory -- v. 2. Screw theory exemplified
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521673310
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521673310
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Phillips, Jack, 1923 - Freedom in machinery Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2006 ISBN 0521673313
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521673310
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521673310
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511751745
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