Freedom in Machinery | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0521673313
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.811
EAN: 9780521673310
Publication Date: March 5, 2007
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Product Description
Does 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.
Book Description
Does 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. The seamless combination of the two volumes (1984, 1990) renders the internal cross-referencing (forward and backward within the volumes) easier to look up.
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Love the Material, abhore the Arrangment May 18, 2007
A Reader (California USA)
This book is about Sir Robert Ball, the father of Screw Theory: the study of translation and rotational relations. And no, I'm not kidding.
My only beef with this material is simply the diction/arrangement. I mean shouldn't a british knight with the last name BALL come up with something a little less commedy-skit-like than SCREW?
And if this knight had good reason to do what he did so long ago, shouldn't the modern authors of this text find a way to be a little less cheeky?
Maybe the answers to both of these questions is no. If so, never judge a book by its cover. If the latter's yes the former no, then that just provides another striking example of cultural deterioration. If both are yes, then ... WHEN IN ROME DO AS THE ROMANS DO.
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