The present paper deals with a student friendly but general treatment of rotation about a point. The conventional treatment followed in Dynamics of machines only deals with steady state precession. Engineering Mechanics courses formulate general theory but due to presence of nonlinear differential equations, avoid their solution. Such an approach may produce less impact on the students. The authors propose to use readily available differential equation solvers and graphics facilities to numerically solve the equations and show the animated motion. Such an approach is expected to boost the interest of the students.
