| Week |
Lecture Topic | Reading
Assignment |
Homework Assignments
and Quizzes |
| 1 (8/20 - 8/24) | -
course introduction
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- mechanism applications
- units
- Chapter
2 - Kinematics Fundamentals
- links, joints, linkages, structures
- degrees
of freedom
- intermittent mechanisms
- Grashof condition
- 4-bar
linkages
| handouts;
Ch. 1;
2.0-2.6, 2.8,
2.10-2.13, 2.18 | Hmwk
0: sign up
for the MECH324-L course Listserv quiz 0 (practice) Hmwk
1 [Ch. 2]
(due Wed, 8/29) quiz 1 [week 1]
(due Tue, 8/28) |
| 2 (8/27
- 8/31) | - Chapter 3 - Graphical Linkage Synthesis
- linkage synthesis
- linkage limiting conditions
- graphical
synthesis
- two-position
- rocker output
- coupler output with
driver dyad
- quick-return mechanisms
- coupler curves
- straight-line
mechanisms, dwell mechanisms
| 3.0-3.3,
3.4 (two-position
synthesis only), 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9;
App. A |
Hmwk 2 [Ch. 3]
(due
Fri, 9/7) quiz 2 [week 2]
(due Tue, 9/4) |
| 3 (9/3 - 9/7) | Labor
Day (no class on Mon, 9/3)- Chapter 4 - Position Analysis
- position
vectors
- complex number representation
- vector loop analysis
|
4.0-4.5 | Hmwk 3
[Ch. 4]
(due Fri 9/14) quiz 3 [week 3]
(due Tue, 9/11) |
| 4 (9/10
- 9/14) | - 4-bar position analysis
- coupler
point position
- transmission angle and toggle positions
- Exam
I Review
| 4.6-4.11 | quiz
4 [week 4]
(due Tue, 9/18) |
| 5 (9/17
- 9/21) | - Chapter 5 - Analytical Linkage Synthesis
- two-position motion generation
EXAM I - Wed,
9/19 | 5.0-5.9 | Hmwk
4 [Ch. 5]
(due Wed, 9/26) |
| 6 (9/24
- 9/28) | - three-position motion generation
-
fixed pivot location synthesis
- Chapter 6 - Velocity Analysis
- relative and absolute velocity
- instant centers
- using ICs for
graphical kinematic analysis
| 6.0-6.4;
handout
| Hmwk 5 [Ch.
6]
(due Fri 10/5) quiz 5 [weeks 5, 6]
(due Tue, 10/2) |
| 7 (10/1
- 10/5) | - analytical velocity analysis
- slip
velocity
- mid-semester course evaluation
- catch-up (or get-ahead)
day
| 6.6-6.9 | Hmwk
6 [Ch. 7]
(due Mon, 10/15) quiz 6 [week 7]
(due Tue, 10/9) |
| 8 (10/8
- 10/12) | - Chapter 7 - Acceleration Analysis
- tangential and normal components
- absolute and relative acceleration
- analytical
acceleration analysis
- Coriolis acceleration
- linkage acceleration
analysis
| 7.0-7.8 |
quiz 7 [week 8]
(due Tue, 10/16) |
| 9 (10/15 - 10/19) |
- Exam II Review
- Chapter 8 - Cam Design
- cam terminology
- s-v-a-j
diagrams
- fundamental law of cam design
- polynomial cam functions
|
8.0-8.3 | Cam Lab Work |
| 10 (10/22 - 10/26) | EXAM
II - Mon, 10/22 - sizing a cam
- pressure angle
- radius
of curvature
- roller follower
- flat-face follower
- cam
terminology and examples
| 8.1, 8.6 |
Cam Lab Work quiz 8 [weeks 9, 10]
(due Tue, 10/30) |
| 11 (10/29
- 11/2) | - cam terminology and examples (continued)
- double
dwell cam functions
- cycloidal
- modified trapezoidal
- modified
sinusoidal
- double dwell 3-4-5 and 4-5-6-7
- single dwell
3-4-5-6
- multiple dwell design example
|
8.3-8.5,
8.7 | Hmwk
7 [Cam Design]
[counts as 3 homeworks]
(due Wed, 11/14) |
| 12 (11/5 - 11/9) | - Chapter
10 - Dynamics Fundamentals
- moment of inertia, parallel axis theorem
- radius
of gyration
- center of percussion
- determining mass moments of inertia
experimentally
- Chapter 11 - Dynamic Force Analysis
- equations
of motion
- force analysis
| 10.0-10.11;
11.0-11.6 |
Hmwk 8 [Ch. 10]
(due Fri, 11/16) quiz 9 [weeks 11, 12]
(due Tue, 11/13)
|
| 13 (11/12 - 11/16) | - matrix
solution method
- flywheel design
| 11.11,
11.13 | Hmwk
9 [Ch. 11]
(due Wed, 11/28) |
| 14 (11/19
- 11/23) | Fall Break (no classes) | |
|
| 15 (11/26
- 11/30) | - rotor balancing
- Chapter 12 - Balancing
- static balance
- dynamic balance
|
12.0-12.2, 12.7 | Hmwk
10 [Ch. 12, 15]
(due Wed, 12/5) quiz 10 [weeks 13,
15]
(due Tue, 12/4) |
| 16 (12/3
- 12/7) | - Chapter 15 - Cam Dynamics
- kinetostatic force analysis of force - closed
follower
- Final Exam review
| 15.0-15.3,
15.5-15.7 | |
| | FINAL
EXAM (Mon, 12/10, 1:30-3:30 pm)
in same room as lectures | | |