Gear Trains
What is a real life example of a gear train
Many correct answers possible
What is torque?
power
What type of motion goes around in a circle?
Rotary Motion
What is the drive gear?
The input gear, or the gear that provides the power
A chain drive is a series of chain links that mesh with a toothed gear, called a _____________.
Sprocket
What type of gear train uses a chain?
A chain drive
Speed and torque have what kind of relationship?
An inverse relationship
What type of motion goes in a straight line?
Linear motion
What is the driven gear?
The gear that is moved by the drive gear, or the gear at the end.
For a cam and follower, the cam is used to convert rotary motion into what type of motion?
Reciprocating
What is a gear train?
a bunch of interlocking gears
The drive gear is bigger than the driven gear, do you have speed or torque?
speed
What type of movement goes nowhere?
No motion, your gear train is stuck
How do gear transmit rotary motion?
with their interlocking teeth
A crank and slider converts rotary motion into what type of motion?
reciprocating
What is the gear in the middle of a drive train called?
The idler gear
The drive gear is smaller than the driven gear, do you have speed or torque?
Torque
What type of motion goes back and forth in an arc?
Oscillating
Meshed gears always turn in _____________ directions.
opposite
In a crank and slider, if you decrease the diameter of the crank, the distance the slider moves will _____.
increase
The long metal stick that turns the gears is called ________.
Drive shaft
If the drive gear and the driven gear are the same size, what do you have?
a balance between speed and torque
Reciprocating Motion
Draw a picture of a gear
IDK, I had to do something. Nice drawing BTW.
A rack and pinion mechanism converts rotary motion into what type of motion?
Linear