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- Gear Ratios
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- A gear is only one
- of many levers or
- teeth on the
- circumference of
- the gear circle.
- Mounted on a shaft,
- the gear may drive
- the shaft, turn
- freely acting as an
- idler gear or be
- turned by the
- shaft. A gear may
- transfer torque,
- decrease speed by
- multiplying torque
- or increase speed
- by lessening
- torque. A drive
- gear forces another
- gear to turn, while
- a driven gear is
- the gear that is
- turned by a drive
- gear.
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