To identify different types of mechanisms and their structural elements.

To analyze position, velocity and acceleration of any point on a mechanism.

To analyze driving forces and joint reaction forces on a mechanism by employing static and dynamic force analysis.

To identify simple and planetary gear trains and compute their speed ratio.

To identify vibratory systems and determine the inertial, stiffness and damping parameters of single degree of freedom models of simple mechanical systems.

To analyze free and forced vibrations of single degree-of-freedom systems.