Miscellaneous
Simple machines make the work you do _____.
Easier
A wheelbarrow is an example of this type of simple machine.
What is a lever or wheel and axle
The force applied to a machine.
What is the effort force?
A machine that combines two simple machines is known as this.
What is a compound machine?
The sum of the kinetic and potential energy of an object.
What is mechanical energy?
This simple machine is a rope wrapped around a wheel.
What is a Pulley?
The push or pull that turns a lever.
What is the force?
Determined by the ratio of the resistance force to the effort force.
What is the Actual Mechanical Advantage?
This simple machine can be used as a ramp.
What is an inclined plane?
This causes the efficiency of a screw to be low.
What is friction?
A force that opposes the effort force.
What is a resistance force?
The 2 simple machines in scissors.
What is a lever & wedge
The mechanical advantage of the wedge increases when this happens.
The wedge gets thinner.
A doorknob is an example of this simple machine.
What is Wheel and axle?
A fixed point around which a lever pivots or turns.
What is a fulcrum?
IMA stands for this.
Ideal Mechanical advantage
Name 3 out of the 6 simple machines.
lever, inclined plane, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, or wedge.
To determine the IMA in a pulley system, you count these.
The number of supporting strands.
This simple machine is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder.
What is a Screw?
Energy transferred as a result of motion.
What is work?
The energy of a moving object.
What is kinetic energy?