Mechanical Advantage
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The percent of work input that becomes work output.

What is efficiency?

200

Moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or activity

What are Ethics?

200

=Force*distance

What is the formula to calculate work?

200

 The systematic process used by engineers to solve problems.

What is the Design process?

200

this is a handmade drawing.

What is a sketch?

400

Multiple pulleys combined make up this.

What is a Pulley System?

400

In these lessons we covered Ohm's Law, Watt's Law, Series and Parallel circuits. 

What is Electrical Systems?

400

=Work/Time

What is the formula for Power?

400

A time for a group to rapidly come up with ideas in the engineering design process.

What is brainstorming?

400

Because of this force there is no chance of 100% efficiency.

What is Friction?

600

A combination of two or more simple machines that work together to accomplish a task.

What are Compound machines?

600

The study of the properties of gasses and liquids that are at rest or in motion.

What is Fluid Mechanics?

600

=Current*Resistance

(=I*R)

What is Voltage

600

A one of a kind working model of a solution that is developed for testing purposes.

What Is a prototype?

600

For this class of lever the load is located between the effort and the fulcrum.

What is a 2nd class lever?

800

The measure of the amount of energy that is transferred when a force acts on an object and causes it to deform.

What is Work?

800

The fundamental laws of nature 4 of them one of them being the Zeroeth.

What is Thermodynamics?

800

= effort distance/load distance

What Is the formula for Ideal Mechanical Advantage?

800

This is first step of the engineering design process.

What is Define the Problem?

800

A person trained and skilled in the design and development of technological solutions to human problems.

What is an Engineer?

1000

This is not considered when calculating Ideal Mechanical Advantage

What is Friction?

1000

A branch of mechanics that is concerned with the study of motion without consideration of the forces that caused the motion.

What is Kinematics?

1000

=½ mass*velocity2

What is the kinetic energy formula?

1000

The Final stage in the Design Process

What is the Evaluation stage? where you present Results

1000

A set of components working together to perform a given task under the direction of a processor or computer.

What is a Control System?