Below is a video of the PMKS analysis showing the position analysis of the point at the joint where the slotted link and slider link meet.

For my kinematic analysis, I started out by using the diagrams below to define my position vectors.

From my position analysis, I found:

From my velocity analysis:

From my acceleration analysis:

MATLAB Portion:

I used the following MATLAB code to calculate all the above values using a 0 to 360 degree input of theta 2. The position graph for the same point shown in the PMKS analysis has a slightly different shape, indicating the code did not match as well as the real life result.

*Refer to Appendix for MATLAB Code

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