Energy: Past, Present, and Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.04.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Content Objectives
  2. Demographics
  3. Force to Energy
  4. Gears as Levers
  5. Gear Technology Advancements Improving Society
  6. Mechanical Drive Systems
  7. Power Source
  8. Robotics
  9. Strategies
  10. Activities
  11. Reading list
  12. Appendix of Standards Implemented
  13. Citations
  14. Notes

Force to Energy: Increased Efficiency through Intelligent Design

Donavan Spotz

Published September 2024

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Citations

“Energy Definition & Meaning.” Merriam-Webster. Accessed July 13, 2024. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/energy#:~:text=%3A%20a%20fundamental%20entity%20of%20nature,the%20capacity%20for%20doing%20work.

Gibbs, Josiah Willard. “On the Form of the Teeth of Wheels in Spur Gearing.” Essay. In The Early Work of Willard Gibbs in Applied Mechanics, Comprising the Text of His Hither to Unpublished PH. D. Thesis and Accounts of His Mechanical Inventions, 1st ed., 7–39. New York, New York: Henry Schuman, 1947.

Greenwood, Douglas C. Mechanical power transmission; component selection and application. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.

Langston, Lee. “Gears Drive the World.” American Scientist 110, no. 2 (2022): 80. https://doi.org/10.1511/2022.110.2.80.

Lemire, Jacques. “Gear Backlash in Robotics Applications.” Gear Technology Magazine RSS, April 9, 2024. https://www.geartechnology.com/articles/30637-gear-backlash-in-robotics-applications.

Mayor, Adrienne. Gods and robots: Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of Technology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

Radzevich, S. P., and Darle W. Dudley. Dudley’s Handbook of Practical Gear Design and manufacture. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2021.

“Strain Wave Gearing.” 2024. Wikipedia. February 18, 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_wave_gearing#/media/File:HarmonicDriveAni.gif.

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