Structure of "4bar - An educational design tool for the kinematics of the planar four-bar mechanism":
Chapter 1: Historical outline of kinematics inspired by former works of the american mathematician Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (1919-2000) and Herbert Maschat.
Chapter 2: A treatise on the theory of the kinematics of mechanisms. Formulars are derived to describe the state of motion of a four-bar mechanism . Graphical methods are introduced as well in order to determine and to understand distinctive points and curves of the moving coupler plane.
Chapter 3: This chapter shows the structure and the manual of the 4bar-software by means of illustrated examples. Several performance features are introduced.
Chapter 4: The architecture of object-oriented languages as Java™ is treated in more detail.
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