Reference Material: Videos + Notes

• Video: Disney’s research team: Computational design of character motion

• Video: Disney’s research team: Inverse kinematics for retargeting robots

• Video: Prof. Cooper’s oscillating fan kinematics

• Video: Rigid body kinematics Notes here

• Video: Rotating reference frames Notes here

• Video: Bike gear kinematics Notes here

Textbook reference

Kasdin and Paley’s Engineering Dynamics ch. 8

Focus on:

1. Equations 8.5, 8.13, 8.21, and definition 8.1: The transport equation

2. Example 8.1 Kinematics of a compound pendulum

3. Example 8.2 The velocity of a rolling wheel

4. Example 8.3 The gear ratio

5. Example 8.4 A two-bar linakage

6. Example 8.7 A ~~three-~~four-bar linkage

7. Tutorial 8.1 The Watt linkage