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obtain the cam rotation, f. Figure 8.27 shows the resulting cam motion along with its three
derivatives. By knowing the function f(q), kinematic inversion is used to obtain the cam
profile, which is shown in Fig. 8.28. A laboratory prototype confirmed the action.

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