= a 2 : a Waoehipo hye aR 8 ~OBJECTIVES - To understand the terms used in mechanisms, - To understand and be able to use (the degree of freedom of space) and the degree of freedom of a joint, - To be able to determine the degree-of freedom of a given mechanism Field of Study The aim of mechanisms study is to determine the general motion principles which are common to all machinery and to describe the general synthesis and analysis techniques that can be applied for the design of machinery. TT Machinery meee Dr Taha TabaraSome Examples of Mechanisms Back-Hoe -Loader Dump Truck Using Trucks you carry very heavy loads reaching 40-50 tons (such as rocks). Dumping the load is also a hard task. The mechanism shown is one of the possible solutions found