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How Gear Ratios Work

 › Introduction to How Gear Ratios Work
› Putting Gears to Work
› Understanding the Concept of Gear Ratio
› Gear Trains
› Other Uses for Gears
› An Example
› Lots More Information
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You see gears in just about everything that has spinning parts.Car engines and transmissions contain lots of gears. If you ever open up a VCR and look inside, you will see it is full of gears. Wind-up, grandfather and pendulum clocks contain plenty of gears, especially if they have bells or chimes. You probably have a power meter on the side of your house, and if it has a see-through cover you can see that it contains 10 or 15 gears. Gears are everywhere where there are engines and motors producing rotational motion.

How Gears Work is what we are finding out at here and to find out more about different kinds of gears and their uses.