I wrote a small MATLAB script that animates Problem 5 from the homework...

Mechanism.m

These kinematics problems are time consuming. I cannot realistically expect you to analyze the position, velocity, and acceleration of a mechanism within the 15 minutes available for a quiz. Therefore, when the problem involves the velocity and/or acceleration I will typically given you the configuration (position) of the mechanism. This should dramatically reduce the time required for the problem.