Abstract
A gear is a toothed wheel, which when meshed with other gears, transmits motion from one part of a mechanism to another. The design of the gears determines whether the speed or the direction of the motion will be maintained or changed.
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Jayendran, A. (1994). Gears and gearing. In: Englisch für Maschinenbauer. Viewegs Fachbücher der Technik. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14137-2_12
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