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100
A profiled wheel with teeth or cogs that meshes with a chain, track or other perforated or indented material.
What is a SPROCKET?
100
A disk or short cylinder fitting closely within a tube in which it moves up and down against a liquid or gas, used in an internal combustion engine to derive motion, or in a pump to impart motion
What is a PISTON?
100
A machine is a tool containing one or more parts that uses energy to perform an intended action.
What is a MACHINE?
100
A machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum.
What is a LEVER?
100
A wheel on an axle or shaft that is designed to support movement and change of direction of a cable or belt along its circumference.
What is a PULLEY?
200
A type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races.
What is a BALL BEARING?
200
A rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.
What is a GEAR?
200
The force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
What is FRICTION?
200
Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
What is ESTHETICS?
200
A hauling or lifting device consisting of a rope, cable, or chain winding around a horizontal rotating drum, turned by a crank or by motor or other power source.
What is a WINCH?
300
The scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance.
What is ERGONOMICS?
300
A section of technology that deals with the study and application of pressurized gas to produce mechanical motion
What is a PNEUMATIC SYSTEM?
300
Shear, tension, compression and internal resistance all have this in common.
What are TYPES OF FORCES?
300
An assembly of bodies connected to manage forces and movement.
What is LINKAGE?
300
A section of technology that deals with the study and application of pressurized liquid to produce mechanical motion.
What is a HYDRAULIC SYSTEM?
400
A system of parts working together in a machine.
What is a MECHANISM?
400
Any interaction which tends to change the motion of an object.
What is a FORCE?
400
A system where deviations from any initial position lead to reactions which tend to return the system to equilibrium.
What is a SELF-CORRECTING SYSTEM?
400
A force exerted by the load.
What is a LOAD FORCE?
400
The force used to move an object over a distance.
What is EFFORT FORCE?
500
A mechanical system formed by mounting gears on a frame so that the teeth of the gears engage.
What is a GEAR TRAIN?
500
The ratio of a distance through which any part of a machine moves to that which the driving part moves during the same time.
What is VELOCITY RATIO?
500
The ratio of the angular velocity of the input gear to the angular velocity of the output gear.
What is GEAR RATIO?
500
Measures the effectiveness of a machine in transforming the energy and power that is input to the device into an output force and movement.
What is EFFICIENCY?
500
A measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.
What is MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE?