Engineering Curves — Study Resources & PYQs
Curves commonly used in engineering practice.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- Engineering Curves: Ellipse, Cycloids, Spirals, Helix, Involutes (Video) — Quick overview of every engineering curve and where each is used in real engineering - good for the big picture.
- Virtual Labs (IIT Delhi) - Special Curves (Article) — Govt of India virtual-lab page introducing conic sections, cycloidal curves, involutes, spirals and helices as a group.
- Tikle's Academy - How to Draw Cycloid (playlist) (Video) — Series showing how to construct the cycloid with tangent and normal, drawn slowly step-by-step so it is easy to copy.
- Definition of Engineering Curves (Involute, Ellipse, Cycloid) (Video) — Clear definitions of the involute and related curves - useful for the 2-mark definition/theory questions in exams.
- Sanfoundry - Engineering Drawing MCQ index (curves topics) (Article) — Topic index that links MCQ sets for cycloidal curves, involute, spiral and helix construction - practise each set.
- NPTEL Notes - Engineering Curves: Spirals (Article) — IIT Guwahati notes on constructing Archimedean and logarithmic spirals with a worked example.
- Loci of Points - Introduction (Engineering Drawing) (Video) — Introduction to loci of points with simple examples before moving on to mechanisms.
- Loci of Points - Slider Crank Mechanism (animated) (Video) — Animated, detailed explanation of how to trace the locus of a point on a slider-crank mechanism.
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- ENGINEERING GRAPHICS WITH CAD — BMET12 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- ENGINEERING GRAPHICS WITH CAD — BMET12 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu