Cycloidal Curves — Study Resources & PYQs
Construction and applications of cycloidal curves.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- 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.
- Virtual Labs (IIT Delhi) - Special Curves (Article) — Defines the cycloid, epicycloid and hypocycloid with their generating equations and diagrams.
- Engineering Curves: Ellipse, Cycloids, Spirals, Helix, Involutes (Video) — Quick overview of every engineering curve and where each is used in real engineering - good for understanding the big picture.
- 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 — Introduction to Engineering Drawing, IIT Guwahati (Article) — NPTEL engineering-drawing course covering lettering, dimensioning, scales, projections, sections and development of surfaces.
- Autodesk — AutoCAD Learning (Article) — Autodesk learning resources for CAD drafting, geometry, projection, dimensioning and drawing workflows.
Cycloidal Curves previous year questions
- Draw an epicycloid, given the radii of rolling and directing circles as r = 30 mm and R = 120 mm respectively. Also draw a normal and a tangent at any point on…
- Draw a hypocycloid of a circle of 40 mm diameter which rolls inside another circle of 200 mm diameter for one revolution. Also draw a Tangent and Normal at a p…
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