Chapter 4. Basic Kinematics of Constrained Rigid Bodies
Introduction to Mechanisms . Yi Zhang with Susan Finger Stephannie Behrens Table of Contents . 4 Basic Kinematics of Constrained Rigid Bodies Degrees of Freedom of a Rigid Body. Degrees of Freedom of a Rigid Body in a Plane. The degrees of freedom (DOF) of a rigid body is defined as the number of independent movements it has. Figure 41 shows a rigid body in a plane.