This kit includes a screw jack (or ‘jackscrew’), a wedge, and different bearings. It helps students understand how rotational friction affects the efficiency of popular machine elements and bearing materials. It shows why engineers choose some materials and devices above others for any given application.
Students fit the parts to the Work Panel and apply effort and load weights to find their relative mechanical advantage and efficiency.
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.
TecQuipment's Potential and Kinetic Energy Kit (ES9) demonstrates the difference between potential and kinetic energy and how it can change from one to the other using a pendulum or flywheel. Also demonstrates elastic potential energy in a spring.
TecQuipment's Friction and Inclined Plane Kit (ES8) demonstrates kinetic and static sliding friction and rolling friction on bodies and between different surfaces on a flat or inclined plane.
TecQuipment's Simple Harmonic Motion Kit (ES7) includes different pendulums and a spring to show students the principles and uses of simple harmonic motion.
