Simple Machines
This is the pivot point of a lever.
What is a fulcrum?
The energy of an object in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The most common simple machine used in the Rube Goldberg machines designed in our camp.
What is the inclined plane?
The first simple machine ever to be invented.
What is the wedge?
Two other science camps in labs of this building.
3-2-1 Blast Off! (Lab 3)
Building Things: Engineering 101 (Lab 3)
Biology: Science of Life (Lab 1)
Magical Science (Lab 1)
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tornadoes (Lab 1)
RoboBuilders Lab (Lab 2)
Science Fever (Lab 5)
The simple machines that are used to lift and move loads.
What are pulleys and levers?
The energy of an object at rest.
What is potential energy?
The simple machine that can be used both to hold things together or to pull them apart.
What is the wedge?
This simple machine helps lift a flag.
What is a pulley?
The chain reaction engineers absent today.
Who are...?
A jar lid is an example of this simple machine.
What is a screw
The contact force that is responsible for allowing a ball to roll without slipping.
What is friction?
This machine is wrapped around a cylinder.
What is a screw?
This machine lets you move something upward with less force over a longer distance.
What is an inclined plane?
The chain reaction engineer whose original design was to water a plant.
Who is Owen?
The only simple machine that might involve a rope.
What is a pulley?
This force is equal to the product of mass and acceleration due to gravity.
What is weight?
A wheelbarrow is a combination of these two simple machines.
What is a lever and a wheel and axle?
This would likely be used to hold two pieces of wood tightly together.
What is a screw or a wedge?
The chain reaction engineer whose favorite food is sushi.
Who is Jacob (Jake)?
A pushpin is an example of this simple machine.
What is a wedge?
The heavier an object is and the faster it is traveling, the more of this it possesses.
What is momentum?
A pizza cutter combines a wheel and axle with this simple machine.
What is a wedge?
A machine that makes work easier by reducing the force needed provides this.
What is mechanical advantage?
Who is Josh?