| General Spatial Involute Gearing Contributor(s): Phillips, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 3642079180 ISBN-13: 9783642079184 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $284.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Design - Product - Mathematics | Geometry - General - Technology & Engineering | Engineering (general) |
| Dewey: 621.833 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.59 lbs) 498 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It has been hard for me to escape the imprint of my early, strong, but scattered trains of thought. There was, at the beginning, little to go by; and I saw no clear way to go. This book is accordingly filled with internal tensions that are not, as yet, fully annealed. Subsequent writers may re-present the work, explaining it in a simpler way. Others may simply invert it. I mean by this that, by writing it backwards, from its found ends {practical machinable teeth) to its tentative beginnings (dimly perceived geometrical notions), one might conceivably write a manual, not on how to understand these kinds of gears, but on how to make them. Indeed a manual will need to be written. If this gearing is to be further investigated, evaluated and checked for applicability, prototypes will need to be made. I wish to say again however that my somewhat convoluted way of presenting these early ideas has been inevitable. It has simply not been possible to present a tidy set of explanations and rules without exploring first (and in a somewhat backwards-going direction) the complexities of the kinematic geometry. There remains, now in this book, a putting together of primitive geometric intuition, computer aided exploration of certain areas, geometric explanations of the discovered phenomena, and a loose sprinkling of a relevant algebra cementing the parts together. |