GEAR TRAINS KIT

This kit includes a selection of different gears for experiments to find their unique characteristics. The gears include Spur Gears, a Bevel Gear and a Worm Drive. The spur gears have two sets of teeth on the same shaft, allowing extra experiments in compound gear trains.

Students test each set of gears to see how it works and note the differences in characteristics (such as efficiency, gear ratio and mechanical advantage) of each set. The gear sets are a selection of the most common sets similar to those used in real applications, such as automobile gear boxes, domestic and industrial hand tools and clockwork instruments. Each has advantages and disadvantages that make them suitable for a particular job.

The kit introduces students to key engineering terms such as gear ratio, efficiency, mechanical advantage and velocity ratio.

This versatile kit is part of a series that allows many experiments using different arrangements of their parts. Students, teachers or lecturers fit the parts of the kit to the Work Panel (ES1) (supplied separately) to study or show an engineering science topic.

TecQuipment supply a CD-ROM with the Work Panel (ES1). It includes all the worksheets, guidance notes and lecturer notes (with answers) needed for typical experiments with each kit. The selection of parts in the kits and the choice of fixing points on the work panel means that teachers or lecturers may extend the experiments to an even greater range.