Objective: To Determine The Velocity Ratio For Compound Gear Train

Apparatus used: compound gear train apparatus, digital tachometer

Theory: A spur gear pair linked by two cylindrical joints forms a simple closed kinematic chain
or gear train. In this compound gear train, a third gear wheel is fixed to one of the gear wheels,
and a fourth gear is free to turn about the other shaft. Thus, two gears on one shaft rotate in sync
while the other pair rotates relative to one another on the other shaft
Gear trains consists

Driving gears - attached to the input shaft

Driven gears/Motor gears - attached to the output shaft
Idler gears - interposed between the driving and driven gear in order to maintain the
direction of the output shaft the same as the input shaft or to increase the distance between
the drive and driven gears
Let
N1= speed of first driver in r.p.m

T1= no. of first driver teeth

N2= speed of first follower in r.p.m

T2= no. of first follower teeth

N3= speed of second driver in r.p.m

T3= no. of second driver teeth

N4= speed of last follower in r.p.m

T4= no. of last follower teeth

Since wheel 1 gear with wheel2, therefore

N2/ N1 = T1/ T2
Similarly, N4/ N3= T3/ T4
Multiplying above eqn
N2/ N1 X N4/ N3 = T1/ T2 X T3/ T4
N4 / N1= (T1 X T3)/ (T2 X T4)
i.e
Product of teeth on the drivers

Speed of last follower

=
Speed of first driver
Result:

Product of teeth on the follower