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Katrina is so afraid of spiders that she checks the ground, the walls, and the screens in every area she enters. Katrina may have

A patient with type 1 diabetes calls the clinic reporting nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. It is most important that the nurse advise the patient to

During a musculoskeletal assessment, the nurse detects a lateral curvature of the spine. This finding is indicative of which condition?

For the 4 bar mechanism below, you are given all the link lengths (a, b, c, d). You are given all the angles (theta2, theta3, theta4).You are given input angular velocity omega2. You want to find the angular velocity omega3 of the coupler, using graphical methods.Please type below in 5-6 sentences, what steps you’ll follow? Be clear and specific. E.g., First at point B, draw a vector of length omega2*b perpendicular to O4B. Then….

How many mechanisms are possible which have 5 links (including ground) and have 1 dof?

The free-response design questions start here. 

What is the degree of freedom of the following mechanism?

Cam designAs the cam rotates with some constant angular velocity, we want the follower to start from 0 and reach 1 inch height, over half the rotation (over angle 0 to pi). This motion should have constant follower velocity (thus the segment from 0 to pi is a straight line with slope dS/dtheta = 1/pi). Design the polynomial displacement function

For the slider crank mechanism below. At this instant, the input crank (4 in) is rotating counterclockwise at 1 rad/s. What will be the magnitude of the angular velocity of coupler link (6 inch) in rad/s.  (Just enter a positive number to three decimal places, no spaces, no units)

For the cam shown below. What is the pressure angle at this instant?(Approximate answer is ok)