Gears 1
Gears that are paired together in a system are called....
Gear Trains
What is another term for a driving gear?
Input gear
What gear is a combination of a circular gear and a gear that looks like a screw?
Worm Gear
Gear trains have at least one _____________ gear and one _____________ gear.
driving, driven
What is another term for a driven gear?
Output gear
Give an example of a human driven gear train.
Bicycle (and any other responses that make sense)
The gears that come between the driving gear and the driven gear are called ______________.
Idle gears
Name the 3 types of gears that we learned about.
Spur Gear, Rack and Pinion, Worm Gear
What provides the force in a machine driven gear train?
motor or engine
What is another word for rotary motion?
Torque
What is the most common type of gear called?
Spur Gear
If you want to increase speed, how do you have to order your gears?
Driving gear is larger than the driven gear
What are three things that gears can do when 'meshed' together?
-change the direction of motion
-increase force
-increase speed
What gear causes rotary motion to change to linear motion?
Rack and Pinion
If you want to increase force, how do you have to position your gears?
Smaller gear is the driving gear and larger gear is the driven gear.