Practice Displacement (2.1) - Kinematic Analysis of Simple Mechanisms

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Question 1.
Define displacement in your own words.
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Think about starting and ending points.
Question 2.
What is the formula for velocity?
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Remember the relationship between distance and time.
3Question 3.
What is displacement?
- The distance from origin
- Position relative to a reference
- Speed of an object
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Think about starting and finishing locations.
4Question 4.
True or False: Acceleration is the rate of change of displacement.
- True
- False
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Remember what acceleration actually measures.
Question 5.
Calculate the angular velocity and the linear velocity of two points on a rotating disk of radius 1 meter if the disk is spinning at 2 radians per second.
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Use the relationship between linear and angular velocities.
Question 6.
Analyze a four-bar linkage system with specified lengths and angular velocities, and determine the position of the output link.
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Break it down into segments — use angles from known input links.

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