In my mind, however, one item that has to be on the list is calculus. The primary reason engineering and science have progressed rapidly is our ability to model natural phenomena using mathematical ...

In this problem, one simply needs to differentiate both the x- and y-coordinates once with respect to time in order to find the corresponding Cartesian components of velocity. Taking another time ...

If the angular velocity of a link in a mechanism is zero, does this imply that the angular acceleration of that link is also zero? The short answer to that question is NO. If ω(t) represents the ...