Shafts
Gears
Transmission
Types of Gears and Shafts
Other
100
Shafts transfer motion from point to point along their _________.
What is axis of motion?
100
Gears are a set of these types of wheels.
What is toothed?
100
Transmissions are functional because of this simple tool.
What is a lever?
100
The component that runs through the center of a gear.
What is a shaft?
100
On a gear, tooth count is directly proportional to this.
What is diameter?
200
Power is transferred to shafts via _________.
What is keys, splines, or polygonal shapes?
200
Gears work to alter the speed of the driving mechanism and the speed of these other parts.
What is driven?
200
Transfer of energy from its origin to a place where it does work.
What is power Transmission?
200
The outer gear of an epicyclic gear.
What is the ring gear?
200
A type of gear where the teeth project perpendicular to the gear face.
What is a crown gear?
300
The number of sides on a vex shaft.
What is 4?
300
The type of gear that transfers energy between two parallel shafts.
What is a spur gear?
300
A battery can convert electrical energy into this type of energy that does work.
What is mechanical energy?
300
The way vex shafts spin in round holes.
What is freely?
300
In order for gears to mesh, they must have the same ______ and ______.
What are size and shape?
400
The shape of the corners on a vex shaft.
What is rounded?
400
Type of gear that resembles a screw.
What is a worm gear?
400
What are two common components necessary in vex transmissions?
What are shafts and gears?
400
Cars use this gear to change the rotational motion of the steering wheel to linear power at the axle.
What are rack gears?
400
This type of gear converts rotational motion to linear motion.
What is a rack gear?
500
Some shafts require these to fit in their shaft holes correctly.
What are keys?
500
The most adaptive type of gears.
What are Epicyclic gears?
500
One way to make transmissions more effiecent is this.
What are gear ratios?
500
The middle gear of a planetary gear.
What is the sun?
500
This robot went undefeated at the 2018 Harding Academy Swept away competition.
What is the Pooper Scooper?
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