Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Prime Mover


P => Power

E => Energy

W => Work

f => Force

t => torque

d => distance of translational motion

q => angle of rotational motion (in radians)

v => velocity of translational motion

w => angular speed (in radians per second)

d => change

Pd => Pitch diameter

n => number of teeth on a gear

nrev => number of revolutions

1 comment:

littlejim said...

So, when multiple crank arms are being operated simultaneously and are connected in parallel with each other to drive loads that, in total, are larger than any single drivetrane could manage; then the Captain which has responsibility for maintaining the velocity is supposed to be managing the system to maintain a steady velocity, which, implies stable prime mover speed.