How Car Transmissions Work: Manual, Automatic, and Cvt
~60 min · 15 stations
How Car Transmissions Work: Manual, Automatic, and Cvt is a self-paced learning path in Engineering & Robotics, free to read, written at General Public / 9th Grade reading level. Across 15 structured stations, you will work through the core ideas step by step, each with a short quiz to check your understanding. By the end you will be able to identify the relationship between torque plus rotational speed; calculate gear ratios for basic mechanical systems; analyze engine speed requirements during operation.
Conductor
All aboard for a journey through the gearbox! We are tracing the path of power from the engine to the wheels, so keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times.
What you will learn
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