Analytical Elements of Mechanisms
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521623834
Subjects: Mechanical engineering; Mechanical movements; Machinery; Mechanical Engineering (Specific Aspects); Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Mechanical; Technology / Engineering / General; Machinery, Dynamics of; Machinery, Kinematics of
First sentence: The number of degrees of freedom (DOF) of a system is equal to the number of independent parameters (measurements) that are needed to uniquely define its position in space at any instant of time.