I just want to say that any good mechanical engineer designing a new system with some tolerances and known limitations but making use of novel gears, like on a rocket engine, will probably be running those gears through finite element analysis.
That indicates to me that the “lowest-level component in a model” question is not just “what makes a good model” but “what is the lowest-level component I can get away with”.
I just want to say that any good mechanical engineer designing a new system with some tolerances and known limitations but making use of novel gears, like on a rocket engine, will probably be running those gears through finite element analysis.
That indicates to me that the “lowest-level component in a model” question is not just “what makes a good model” but “what is the lowest-level component I can get away with”.
On what I take to be a related note, I recently enjoyed a short essay on, I guess, the gears of gears.
That is excellent.