Cylindrical Cam
Cylindrical Cam
A ball is set into in a skewed groove of a cylinder. When the cylinder rotates, the walls of the groove act as cams and move the ball up and down, which in turn moves a guided bar. This arrangement is a way of producing linear from rotational motion.
Permanent Citation
Permanent Citation
Sándor Kabai
"Cylindrical Cam"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CylindricalCam/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: November 10, 2008