Crank & Slider Mechanism

This mechanism is used to convert rotary motion to translatory motion and visa-verse. The slider moves with crank head and hence piston performs Simple Harmonic Motion(SHM) The applet shows this graph of piston head. Click button to start animation. This is a Java Applet created using GeoGebra from www.geogebra.org - it looks like you don't have Java installed, please go to www.java.com The applet uses trace of a point which moves in x direction with piston and in y direction with theta the angle of rotation. Dr Vasant Barve, 14 December 2013, Created with GeoGebra