Dammit, only an 86%.
I didn't like the gear problems, as none of them gave diameters.
Of course, only now it occurs to me that I could have counted the teeth. I'm sure my Machine Design professor would be proud.

I screwed up all of those gear problems because of that.
I also missed "Direct" and "Reverse" as gear types. None of my classes ever used those terms for gear drives - Reduction, Overdrive, also not used. D, with the three gears, struck me as a direct drive, since the output direction = the input. Then C, with two gears the same size, one rotates the opposite direction from the other - seems like Reverse to me.
Originally posted by: DrPizza
And, (correct me if I'm mistaken), the two masses balanced on a lever resting on a fulcrum. The one on the left is 300kg. The "correct" answer is 100kg. I disagree. It's been 20 years since I've done such problems, but I thought center of mass was used, in which case the one on the right was 5 times as far away, not 3 times as far away. (Darn those profs who spent too much time on "point masses" and not enough on real world masses!"
For the lever question, I was also taught to model distributed masses as points for the sake of the FBD moment calculations. For that problem, it would be a 1:5 distance ratio, not 1:3.
"How much force is required to move a weight."
They list answers in kg. Kilograms are units of mass, not force.
Darn you DrPizza, you noticed that, too.
- So, gear section, lost lots of points because I forgot to count the # of gear teeth.
- Pulley problems, 100%
- Electrical section, 100%
- That damn lever problem.....don't know about that one. I too think it's a 1:5 ratio, not 1:3.
- The fan problem - I also got it wrong. I guess it depends on which vantage point you're looking from, and what "same" is judged from. If you look from the back of the powered fan, into the whole system, both fans spin the same direction, but if you look from the back of each fan independently, the unpowered fan will rotate in a direction opposite that it would go if it were powered on, since the air flowing through is opposite the normal direction.
- Water pumped rapidly through a pipe. I guess when it travels through the tighter part of the pipe, it speeds up, so the pressure goes down? Bernoulli effect?
- The centrifugal device - I picked that they'd move outward, since it looked like they'd be restricted by the two shorter support pieces. Upward movement would also depend on the motion of the vertical support.
- The naturally aspirated engine - don't know a thing about how engines work. I thought it'd be suction from the piston going down.
Technically I guess you could say that suction doesn't really exist, and that it's always just outward pressure pushing in.
Darn it, 86%, that's disappointing. Considering that I had an entire chapter in gear design in Machine Design, and that I did quite well on it, well, that's just sad that I forgot to count teeth. This gear design stuff included as far as calculating stresses in the teeth. Rotational speeds and gear ratios were the easy part.