Definitions
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Simple Machines
Compound Machines
Calculating Force, Work & Power
100
This makes work easier by multiplying the force used or reducing the amount of force needed.
What is a simple machine?
100
What is a screw?
100
A slant surface that connects a lower surface to a higher surface. Can be used to move an object from one level to another.
What is an incline plane?
100
A wheelbarrow is made up these two simple machines.
What are a wheel and axle and a lever.
100
The amount of work done if a man pushes a box 168 meters with a force of 54 Newtons.
What is 9,072 Joules?
200
This is made of more than one simple machine.
What is a compound machine?
200
What is an incline plane?
200
An example of this simple machine is a door knob.
What is a wheel and axle?
200
A scissors is made up these two simple machines.
What is a lever and a wedge?
200
The power of a crane that lifted a piano with 438,000 Joules of work for 96 seconds.
What is 4,562.5 Watts?
300
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
300
What is a wedge?
300
This is made up of two inclined planes.
What is a wedge?
300
These simple machines make up this wine opener:
What is a lever and a screw?
300
The force of lifting a child that weighs 21 kg at 2.2 m/s.
What is 46.2 Newtons?
400
The application of force applied to an object to set it in motion.
What is work?
400
What is a wheel and axle?
400
An inclined plane wrapped around an axis with a wedge at the tip. It can be used to hold objects together/Raise and lower things.
What is a screw?
400
These three simple machines make up a can opener.
What is a wheel and axle, a wedge, and a lever?
400
The work a helicopter uses if it takes off at 129 m/s, weighs 522 kg, and flies for 13,298 meters.
What is 895,460,724 Joules?
500
Work and time helps us to determine this.
What is power?
500
What is a lever?
500
This simple machine is a variation of the wheel and axle where a rope wraps around the wheel. It allows you to lift loads, lower loads, move loads horizontally.
What is a pulley?
500
These three simple machines make up a bicycle.
What is a pulley, a lever, and a wheel and axle?
500
The power of a person lifting a couch at 3.4 m/s, if the couch weighs 149 kg and it takes the person 9.73 seconds to lift the couch to the height of 1.283 meters.
What is 66.8 Watts?