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To calculate: Speed of the second gear when speed of first gear is
Answer to Problem 7ST
Speed of the second gear is
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
The following variation:
Speed of the gear is inversely proportional to the number of teeth.
Two meshed gears have
Calculation:
Let n be number of teeth and S be speed. Then, S varies inversely as n ,
where k is a constant.
Substituting
Therefore, an equation of the given variation is
To find S when
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