⚙️Gear Train

How it works

Gears with teeth lock together and push each other around.

Touching gears always spin in opposite directions.

A small gear has fewer teeth, so it must spin many more times to keep up with a big gear. That is a gear ratio!

Turn the red hand crank, or drag any gear, to spin the whole train.

Use ➖ and ➕ to change the small gear's teeth — watch the RPM numbers and the ratio change!

Drag a gear to spin the train
Big gear turns slow · small gear turns fast