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Tractional Motion Machines: Tangent-Managing Planar Mechanisms as Analog Computers and Educational Artifacts

2012

Concrete and virtual machines play a central role in the both Unconventional Computing (machines as computers) and in Math Education (influence of artifacts on reaching/producing abstract thought). Here we will examine some fallouts in these fields for the Tractional Motion Machines, planar mechanisms based on some devices used to plot the solutions of differential equations by the management of the tangent since the late 17th century.

Computer scienceDifferential equationAnalog computerdifferential equationsTangentMotion (geometry)educational artifactscomputer.software_genrePlot (graphics)planar mechanismslaw.inventiontractional motionPlanarVirtual machinelawComputer graphics (images)Analog computationAnalog computation; tractional motion; planar mechanisms; educational artifacts; differential equationsUnconventional computingcomputerAnalog computation tractional motion planar mechanisms educational artifacts differential equations
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