Theory of machines and mechanisms for mechanical engineering students.Theory of Machines and Mechanisms contains basic to advance concepts,principals, theories,laws of machine design & mechanics geometry .Theory of Machines and Mechanisms app almost covers important topics chapter wise

Chapter 1 Mechanisms and Machines

1. Mechanism
2. Kinematic Pairs
3. Kinematic chain
4. Degrees of Freedom
5. Kinematic inversions of four bar mechanism and slider crank mechanism
6. Equivalent linkages
7. Pantograph
8. Straight Line Mechanisms
9. Davis and Ackermann?s steering mechanisms
10. Hooke's joint

Chapter 2 Kinematic analysis

1. Planar kinematics of a rigid body
2. Rigid body motion
3. Rotation about a fixed axis
4. General plane motion
5. Relative velocity
6. Analysis Of Velocity And Accelerations
7. Instantaneous Center of Velocity
8. Kennedy's theorem
9. Coriolis acceleration

Chapter 3 Gears

1. Classification of gears
2. Nomenclature of Common Gears
3. Involutes and cycloidal tooth profile properties
4. Synthesis of tooth profile for spur gears
5. Interference and undercutting
6. Bevel and worm gears.
7. Sliding velocity

Chapter 4 Cams

1. Classification of followers and cams
2. radial cam nomenclature
3. analysis of follower motion
4. pressure angle
5. synthesis of cam profile by graphical approach
6. Simple and compound Gear Trains
7. Epicyclic gear trains
8. determination of gear speeds using vector
9. calculating torque in gear train
10. compound and epicyclic gear trains

Chapter 5 Gyroscopic Action in Machines

1. angular velocity and acceleration
2. gyroscopic torque/ couple
3. gyroscopic effect on naval ships
4. stability of two and four wheel vehicles
5. rigid disc at an angle fixed to a rotating shaft