This video provides an introduction to a raw unedited lecture series about traditional mechanisms and mechanical systems given by Professor Jonathan Hopkins at UCLA. The lecture series was filmed in an empty lecture hall during the COVID-19 pandemic as a resource for the undergraduate students that took his Introduction to Mechanisms and Mechanical Systems class. When the series was recorded it was not intended to be made public, but permission was later received by the university to make it public.
The course provides the mathematics necessary to analyze the position, velocity, and acceleration of general mechanisms consisting of rigid bodies that are joined together by traditional joints (e.g., revolute and prism joints). Various approaches are also provided to calculate the external and internal loads that occur within such mechanisms. Gears are also discussed at length among other classical machine components.
Additional course resources are posted to Professor Hopkins’ website: www.flexible.seas.ucla.edu
Acknowledgement:
Special thanks to my colleague Prof. Dennis Hong for allowing me to use his lecture notes, which inspired the creation of the bulk of the material for this lecture series.
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