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Turn the crank to make your K’NEX Crown
Gears move.Which way does each Gear turn?
How is their movement different from the
movement of spur gears?
2 Use the K’NEX Rubber Band Scale to meas-
ure the force used to lift a small weight with
the Crown Gears, like you did with the Spur
Gears. Record your findings. Did the Crown
Gears reduce the force needed to lift the
weight? Why or why not?
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a.
Try replacing one small Gear in your
Crown Gears model with a big yellow Gear.
You will have to change the stand so the big
Gear will fit.
b.
Use a small piece of tape to mark the top
of each Gear.Turn the large Gears one turn
and see how many times the small Gear turns
around.
c.
Again, use the Rubber Band Scale to meas-
ure the force needed to lift the weight.
Record your results and compare them to
the previous measurement. How did this
Crown Gear arrangement affect the amount
of force used to do the work? Write a few
sentences explaining your findings.
d.
What is the gear ratio for this set of Crown
Gears? What is the Mechanical Advantage?
(Refer to the “What’s the Mechanical Advantage”
Reference Sheet for help.)
How can crown
gears help you do work?
4. Imagine you make clay pots and you want to
build a potter’s wheel that is powered by bike
pedals. How might crown gears help you do
this? Using K’NEX, design and build this
model.
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1.
When you turn the Crown Gears, one Gear
turns clockwise and the other turns counter-
clockwise, just as with spur gears.This may be
hard to see because the two Gears lie in dif-
ferent planes. Look at the Crown Gears at
the inside “corner” where the two Gears
mesh.
2. Crown gears of the same size turn with the
same amount of force. If the crown gears
have the same gear ratio and MA as spur
gears, they turn with the same amount of
force.
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b.
The small yellow Gear turns about 2.5
times for each turn of the big Gear.
c.
When turning the small Gear to lift the
weight on the big Gear, the force needed to
lift the weight was reduced due to the Me-
chanical Advantage. However, the arrange-
ment of the Gears does not have an effect on
the amount of force used.
d.
Students will find that the big yellow Gear
has 84 teeth and the small yellow Gear has
34 teeth.The equation to find the gear ratio
is 84/34= 2.47:1.The MA will either be 2.47
or 0.4 depending upon how they set up the
model. Note that this number is close to
their observed results.The
“What’s the Me-
chanical Advantage?” Reference Sheet
will ex-
plain more about the gear ratio.
Crown gears help do work by changing the
direction of the work.You can apply the force
in the direction that is easiest for you and
have the work take place in a different direc-
tion.
4. To make a potter’s wheel turn using bike ped-
als, you need to link a horizontal wheel with
a vertical wheel.A horizontal surface is
needed to put the pot on, but you have to
turn the bike pedals while you’re sitting up, so
they must work in a vertical plane. Any other
arrangement would have your pot sliding off
an upright surface or you would have to
pedal while lying down.
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