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I have many resources and textbooks I can look at but nobody seems able to tell me what type of motions my four arc cam would be

Yes it is very similar to our lecture slides. Unfortunately I can't tell from my cam what the type of motion each segment is unless I simulate it. And I can't simulate it without knowing what type of motion each segment is. That is why I am asking someone with a bit more knowledge about cams...

I have designed this one. But I don't know the terms for what type of motion each segment is. I would like to know it so I can recreate it in the program I took a screenshot of above. In the program they don't use the information I was given, like rise angle, return angle, nose size etc. They...

As I also said above, I DESIGNED THIS CAM. I have all the measurements, it is a four arc cam, with each arc tangent to the next. That picture is a screenshot of the one I made on the computer. I made it from the information I was given, the rise angle, return angle, nose radius, base radius and...

I just want to know what type of motion the cam segments are. The first, base circle is clearly a dwell motion. What is the next called? Is it a constant acceleration, harmonic, double harmonic etc.? And what is the nose? It isn't a dwell or harmonic.

This is a cam I designed from given data. I know all the measurements but I just don't know how to make it using the Solidworks cam design tool as I don't know what the names are for each section. That's all I need, what each arc section is called as per the names in the dropdown box

If I had to choose each segment from the dropdown box, what would I select for the rise, the nose and the return?

I am trying to determine what type of cam this is from the various cam diagrams but they don't really help as they all seem very similar. I have a simple four arc cam, so a base circle/arc, a nose circle/arc and an arc on one side tangent to the nose and base arcs, and another of slightly...

Oh sorry they cancel out, no worries

And what about the metres and Newtons in the formula?

So what do I type into Wolfram Alpha? What does the formula look like when written out fully, before simplifying etc?

This is what I am putting into Wolfram Alpha - 'definite integral of (500x^(1/3))/((0.00175x)(2.2x10^(11)x)) between 0 and 1.5' However I don't know how to interpret the answer...

This is what I am putting into Wolfram Alpha - 'definite integral of (500x^(1/3))/((0.00175x)(2.2x10^(11)x)) between 0 and 1.5' However I don't know how to interpret the answer...

Okay thanks. And for the A(x) and E(x) am I just using the area multiplied by x, and the elastic modulus multiplied by x?

Yes thank you, I just found the right formula to use. It states the displacement is = integral between 0 and L of P(x)/A(x)E(x) However I still don't know how to do it unfortunately. They give me w in the diagram, is this supposed to be P in the equation? And how would you substitute x in? Do...