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Explaining Attached Image to a 6yr Old: Tips & Tricks
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Animated images are one way:
Using simple cylindrical objects (little wheels for example) on one another or with a cord to represent the belt (twisted or not) may help visualized as well.
In any case, the next gear always turn in opposite direction, except with the non-twisted belt.
Using simple cylindrical objects (little wheels for example) on one another or with a cord to represent the belt (twisted or not) may help visualized as well.
In any case, the next gear always turn in opposite direction, except with the non-twisted belt.
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Thank you so much for the great reply. It helped a lot :) Thank you
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Can you determine if the box will close or open without following the pinions one by one? Only by the number of pinions involved in the whole structure?
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Yes you can do it numerically but it is not as safe.
Concepts needed, crank handle, meshed gears, parallel belts, crossed belts, and winch drum.
Where two gears mesh the rotation direction reverses.
Where a belt connects two pulleys there is no change of rotation, unless the belt is crossed.
There are two ways to solve this puzzle.
1. Draw more direction arrows as you work along the gears and belts of the mechanism.
2. Count using tokens such as “clock” and “anti”, flipping the token for every reversal.
Use = for a parallel belt, x is a crossed belt. c is clockwise, a is anticlockwise.
The sequence here is “ ca = acaca x cacac x aca ”
So output is opposite direction to input. The box opens.
Concepts needed, crank handle, meshed gears, parallel belts, crossed belts, and winch drum.
Where two gears mesh the rotation direction reverses.
Where a belt connects two pulleys there is no change of rotation, unless the belt is crossed.
There are two ways to solve this puzzle.
1. Draw more direction arrows as you work along the gears and belts of the mechanism.
2. Count using tokens such as “clock” and “anti”, flipping the token for every reversal.
Use = for a parallel belt, x is a crossed belt. c is clockwise, a is anticlockwise.
The sequence here is “ ca = acaca x cacac x aca ”
So output is opposite direction to input. The box opens.
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Thank you, Baluncore.