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020 _a9780511751745 (ebook)
020 _z9780521673310 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 4 _aTJ175
_b.P48 2007
082 0 4 _a621.811
_222
100 1 _aPhillips, Jack,
_d1923-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFreedom in machinery /
_cJack Phillips.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2007.
300 _a1 online resource (172, 253 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aV. 1. Introducing screw theory -- v. 2. Screw theory exemplified.
520 _aDoes 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.
650 0 _aMachinery, Kinematics of.
650 0 _aScrews, Theory of.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521673310
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751745
999 _c521984
_d521982