Question

A frictionless gear train is shown in the figure. The leftmost 12-teeth gear is given a torque of 100 N-m. The output torque from the 60-teeth gear on the right in N-m is

Options :

  1. 5

  2. 20

  3. 500

  4. 2000

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Answer :

2000

Solution :

N4/N1 = 12*12/60*48 = 1/20

T1N1 = T4N4

100*N1 = T4*N1/20

T4 = 2000

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