Two cylinders rolling in the opposite direction have a
speed ratio of 3:1. If their center distance is 40’’ find the
diameter of the smaller cylinder
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If the diameter of the smaller of the two cylinders in pure
rolling external contact is 8 inches and that the center
distance is 20 inches calculate their speed ratio
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Two parallel shafts are connected by pure rolling contact
turning in the same direction and having a speed ratio of
2.75 What is the distance between two shafts if the
smallest cylinder is 22cm in diameter
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Four cylinders have a speed ratio of A:B:C:D= 6:4:2:1. If
the center distance between A and C IS 30 inches, find the
center distance between A and D.
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A 6’’ diameter circular cam is used in which the cam axis is
located 2.5’’, radially from its circumference. What is the
resulting radial follower travel if this follower is engaged
with the circular cam?
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An internal gear is set up with a 5-in diameter pinion and
a center distance of 18 inches. Find the diameter of the
internal gear.
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Find the center distance between gears with 50teeth a and
25teeth if the diametral pitch is 5.
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Two parallel shafts 8 inches apart have an angular velocity ratio of
3:1 and are connected by spur gears, in which the larger gear has
36 teeth. Determine the circular pitch inches.
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Determine the pitch line velocity in fpm of a pinion
rotating at 1000 rpm, and having a module of 5.08 mm
and a number of teeth of 30.
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The economical speed for leather belting is around 4500 fpm. A
pulley of what diameter in inches should be used on a motor
running at 1760 rpm to give the required belt speed, if there is
no slip between the belt and the pulley surfaces?
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Two pulleys 80 cm apart carry a belt in an open-belt
arrangement. If the diameter of the pulleys is 40cm and 15cm
what is the length of the belt needed?
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Two pulleys 80 cm apart carry a belt in a cross configuration. If
the diameters of the pulleys are 40cm and 15cm what is the
length of the belt needed?
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What additional belt length is needed to convert an open-belt
drive into a cross belt drive using pulley diameters of 3ft and 4ft
at a center distance of 8ft?
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A 5’ diameter pulley turns at 200rpm. Find the speed of the
pulley midway between its center and the outer surface?
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A wheel is turning at 360 rpm. If the tangential speed of the
wheel is 150.80 fps, what is the radius of the flywheel?
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The flywheel of a steam engine 8 ft in a diameter and rotates at
112 rpm. Find the linear speed in fpm of a point located on the
spoke midway between the center and the rim of the flywheel.
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A punching machine flywheel accelerates from the rest at 5
radians/sec-sec. In 5 seconds how many revolution are
achieved?
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A flywheel rotates at 120rpm or 12.57 rad/sec slowed down to
102 rpm or 10.68 rad/sec during the punching operation that
requires ¾ second of the punching portion of the cycle.
Compute the angular deceleration of the flywheel in rad/sec?
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A line shaft runs 360 rpm. An 18’’ pulley on the same shaft is
belt connected to a 12’’ pulley on the countershaft. From a
15’’pulley on the machine to give a spindle speed of 660 rpm.
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Two shafts, A and B are connected by rolling frustums
that turn in the opposite directions. Calculate cone angle
in degrees of the bigger cone if the shaft angle used is 60
degrees and the frustums have a speed ratio of 3:1.
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Determine the shaft angle between two frustums if the
base radii are 3’’ and 6’’ and the cone angle of the smaller
frustums is 18 degrees. The frustums rotate in the
opposite directions.
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Six cylinders rolling in pure contact have a speed ratio of
6:5:4:3:2:1. The center distance between the first four
cylinders from the smallest is 42 inches. Compute the
distance between the center of the smallest and the
largest pulley.
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