DIFFERENT TYPES OF GEARS

What is a gear?
A gear is a wheel with teeth that mesh together with other gears.
Gears change the speed, torque (rot. force) and direction of rotating
axles.

Spur Gears
This is the most “common” type of
gear

The gears interlock (mesh) to create

movement.
Rack & pinion gear
A rack and pinion is gears which convert rotational motion into linear
motion.
A circular gear called "the pinion" engages teeth on a linear "gear"
bar called "the rack"
Bevel gears
Bevel gears are spur gears that mesh at a 90 degree angle.
The axles are perpendicular to one another.
WORM GEAR
Worm gears makes very large gear ratios possible.

In order for the spur gear to make one rotational movement, how
many rotations must the worm gear make?

This spur gear has 30 teeth.

30 rotations

The worm gear is actually a gear with 1 tooth.