I tried asking this on other SE forum but i think this is the correct one:
Basically our teacher has sent us quite a lot of exercises but I can't get past this one which says: a pulley cone consists of 3 pulleys of 150, 250 and 350 mm of diameter that link an identical but inverted cone. Determine the three possible transmission ratios. Our teacher doesn't explain very well and I don't know where to search. If someone knows something about this, anything would be helpful.
PD: if you think I didn't tried to solve it, in all the book there's no information about this type of mechanism and we don't see our teacher until the day we need to bring the homework. There's no more info. in the exercise sorry.
(ignore, i messed up the question here)Edit: by the way what I'm trying to look for here is for a formula about the transmission ratio, but I can't understand how to do the formula with this specific mechanism because I don't see how to get the speed of the pulleys, here's an example given by the book.
Edit 2: i finally came up with this answer: This question defines a system of adjustable speed pulleys, of this type of mechanisms what we can see as a ratio is that the bigger the gear we choose the pulley will go slower, this means that if we choose the gears that are parallel to each other the speed will always be the same because we will always have gears that are proportional to each other. 350mm -> 150mm 250mm -> 250mm 150mm -> 350mm
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