Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery for Professors
For Professors who have adopted Norton Texts:
This center allows downloads of Norton’s Master Lectures, Powerpoint files, programs and book errata. It also provides a link to the publishers’ web pages where additional supplements such as a solutions manual and visual aids of the books’ figures may be available.
Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery by Norton
You may also download the latest student versions of the programs Fourbar, Fivebar, Sixbar, Slider, Dynacam, Engine, and Matrix here and may share them with students in your classes who use these books.
For copies of syllabi, project handouts, and information on how Professor Norton has taught these courses click here: Syllabi and other Course Info
Note: With the exception of the Flash tutorials, these files start downloading in your browser automatically when you click on the links.
Tutorials (Requires Flash)
- Boot Testing Machine
- Bottle Printing Machinery
- Cam Machine Virtual Laboratory
- Cognates of Linkages
- Coupler Curves and Linkages Atlas
- Dwell Mechanisms
- Dynacam Student Edition Tutorial
- Fourbar Linkage Virtual Laboratory
- Fourbar Student Edition Tutorial
- High Speed Spring Failure
- Instant Centers and Centrodes
- Linkage Applications in Vibration Testing
- Parallel Motion
- Pick and Place Mechanisms
- Position Synthesis
- Quick Return Mechanisms
- Spring Manufacturing Machinery
- The Grashof Conditions
Virtual Labs
- Cam Machine Virtual Laboratory (ZIP, 300 KB)
- Fourbar Machine Virtual Laboratory (ZIP, 22.5 MB)
Programs
- Dynacam (ZIP, 5.5 MB)
- Engine (ZIP, 4.3 MB)
- Fivebar (ZIP, 4.3 MB)
- Fourbar (ZIP, 7.7 MB)
- Matrix (ZIP, 4.1 MB)
- Sixbar (ZIP, 4.3 MB)
- Slider (ZIP, 4.3 MB)
Examples and Figures
- Examples/Figures (ZIP, 292 KB)
Solutions
- Problem Solutions (ZIP, 148 KB)
Solver Files
- TKSolver Files (ZIP, 520 KB)
Manuals
- Programs User Manual, 4th Ed (PDF, 1.7 MB)
Norton’s Lectures in Powerpoints
- Powerpoint files of Prof Norton’s Lectures on kinematics are available for download here. There is also an index to their contents in the form of the course syllabus for which they were made.
- Powerpoint files of Prof Norton’s Lectures on Dynamics of Machinery are available for download here. There is also an index to their contents in the form of the course syllabus for which they were made.
If you have requested access to these books, you can link directly to the page here