Please find below the details of my animation, with the torque value for each step.
Look at the spokes of the both wheels.you wrote:In your simulations/animations, how have you made sure that the smaller inner wheel turn at twice the speed of the larger wheel?
When the big wheel (red spokes) rotates of 90 grades (by steps of 7,5 grades), the small one (blue spokes) has rotated of 180 grades.
I don't use any computer program. The computer is just my brain. Like the middle age monk I draw each image applying some strict geometrical consideration. There is no chance for a crazy calculation.you wrote: if the computer program that Path_finder is using has been given the instruction to rotate the smaller inner wheel at twice the speed of the larger wheel
Now, for the torque calculation you can keep the indicated value for each individual image.
You have just to consider the size of your wheel and the mass of your weights.
The indicated values are based on a big wheel with a diameter of 180 pixels. So far make the correction like this:
Per example, for a wheel with a diameter of 1 meter, and two weights of 500 grams (0.5 Kg), the torque for the first image will be:
L = 1m x (30/180)
W = 2 x 0.5 (The two weights have been exchanged by the COG located at the middle of their distance, and equal to twice the mass)
T = 0,166 Kgm