Subject: Kinematics of Machinery

Topic: Kinetics of Rigid Bodies

Difficulty: High

The no. of instantaneous centers in a constrained kinematic chain is equal to the no. of possible combinations two links. The no. of pairs of links or the no. of instantaneous centers is the no. combination of n links taken two at a time. Mathematically, no. of instantaneous centers,

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