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File Name: 61282_motionper
Description: Illustration showing the periodic center of motion as it often happens when two positions of a line are known and they are moving in the same plane and we wish to find an axis about which this line could revolve to occupy the two given positions.
Source: Peter Schwamb, S.B. And Allyne L. Merrill, S.B. Elements Of Mechanism (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1905) 12
Keywords: rolling surface, surfaces, plane, motion, motions, translation

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