Solutions:

Stuff for now

Homework set #1

A Working Model small example for you to run (for the first homework): Block on a stick (use a right mouse button and "save as" to save the file.  You then need to open it out of Working Model.   Usually you cannot open it with a double click because the file will be associated with the Windows Media Player not Working Model.

For this problem you need to find the effect on the maximum acceleration of the block (body 8) due to a) doubling the mass of the block and b) doubling of the mass of the rotating link (body 4).

What is a drafting machine?  Click here

Chapter 5 Homework Set

A MathCAD file (Problem 5.2) or for the older MathCAD Version 7 (Problem 5.2)

Figure showing the angle alpha from Problem 5.2

A .pdf file that tells "the answer" to 5.2.  REMEMBER!  All of the problems can be solved an infinite number of ways! (here)

Chapter 6, 8 and 9, Working Model!

Some working model examples that are related to homework.

Problems: 6.12 (Click here), 6.17 (Click here), 8.03 (Click here) and 9.28 (Click here)

A link to a planetary gearbox example (Click here) -- try the animation!

Chapter 11

A partial solution for problem 11-5(row a) -- MathCAD worksheet

PDF Files with full solution to 11-5a (if you can get row "a" you can get any of them!) and 11-11 Using a given position solution and solving the rest of 11-11 using MathCAD (this is the revised version)