Learn
Before you can compete in the Gear Train Tractor Pull Challenge, you first need to learn about gears, forces, and mechanical advantage, and how those can affect your robot.
Gears, Forces, and Mechanical Advantage
Gears are circular disks that have notches in them known as "teeth" that mesh together. A gear train is a mechanism that is made up of two or more gears.
Watch this video to learn about gears, gear trains, and mechanical advantage.
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Check Your Understanding
Before moving on to the Practice section, ensure that you understand the concepts covered on this page by answering the questions in the document below in your engineering notebook.
Check Your Understanding questions Google Doc / .docx / .pdf
Select Next > to practice pulling objects with your BaseBot using different gear configurations.