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Welcome to Physical Modeling
Welcome to Simulink Physical Modeling, encompassing the modeling and design of systems according to basic physical principles. Physical Modeling runs within the Simulink environment and interfaces seamlessly with the rest of Simulink and with MATLAB. Unlike other Simulink blocks, which represent mathematical operations or operate on signals, Physical Modeling blocks represent physical components or relationships directly.
What Is SimMechanics?
SimMechanics is a part of Physical Modeling. Its purpose is the engineering design and simulation of mechanical systems of rigid bodies connected by joints, with the standard Newtonian dynamics of forces and torques.
SimMechanics simulates translational and rotational motion in three dimensions. SimMechanics provides you with a suite of tools to specify bodies and their mass properties, their possible motions, kinematic constraints, coordinate systems, and the means of initiating and measuring motions.
SimMechanics represents a mechanical system by a connected block diagram, like other Simulink models, and can encompass hierarchical subsystems.
SimMechanics' internal visualization tools display and animate simplified representations of 3-D machines, before and during simulation, in these environments:
What's in This Chapter?
This chapter introduces you to the capabilities of SimMechanics and its relationship to other MathWorks products:
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