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Design And Implementation Of A Small Electric Motor Dynamometer For Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory, Aaron Farley

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis set out to design and implement a new experiment for use in the second lab of the laboratory curriculum in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR. The second of three labs typically consists of data acquisition and the real world measurements of concepts learned in the classes at the freshman and sophomore level. This small electric motor dynamometer was designed to be a table top lab setup allowing students to familiarize themselves with forces, torques, angular velocity and the sensors used to measure those quantities, i.e. load cells and optical encoders. The …