Experimental Equipment for Teaching Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering

TecQuipment's Centrifugal Force Kit (ES16) demonstrates the relationship between centrifugal force, radius, and velocity of rotating masses.

The kit includes a unique pulley - the Weston Differential pulley - to show how two different size sheaves on one pulley has a dramatic effect on mechanical advantage. The kit introduces students to key engineering terms such as machine efficiency, velocity ratio and ‘work done’.

This kit also includes a wheel and axle with single, double and triple wheel or ‘sheave’ pulleys for experiments in mechanical advantage.

Students test fixed, movable and compound pulleys attached to load and effort weights to test their mechanical advantage.

This versatile kit is part of a series that allows many experiments using different arrangements of their parts. Students, teachers or lecturers fit the parts of the kit to the Work Panel (ES1) (supplied separately) to study or show an engineering science topic.

TecQuipment supplies a CD-ROM with the Work Panel (ES1). It includes all the worksheets, guidance notes and lecturer notes (with answers) needed for typical experiments with each kit. The selection of parts in the kits and the choice of fixing points on the Work Panel means that teachers or lecturers may extend the experiments to an even greater range.

Learning Outcomes

• Simple Pulleys - fixed, movable and compound
• The Wheel and Axle
• The Weston Differential Pulley

Key Features

• One of a series of 18 kits for experiments in fundamental engineering science topics
  
• Flexible and modular, each kit fi ts onto the work panel (ES1) for experiments and classroom demonstrations
• Supplied in a hard-wearing storage tray with a molded insert to hold parts securely and a graphical list to help check the kit contents
• Rugged and durable parts for safe ‘hands-on’ experiments, allowing better understanding
• Contains all parts needed for experiments in pulleys

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