Levers
Pulleys
Wheel and Axle
Inclined Plane
Screws and Wedges
100
The ratio showing how much a device multiplies effort
What is Mechanical Advantage?
100
The amount of strands opposing a load
What is the IMA?
100
The effort force is applied here when driving a car.
What is the wheel/steering wheel?
100
This is a common example of an inclined plane
What is a ramp?
100
This is a simple machine with two inclined planes back to back
What is a wedge?
200
This class of lever
What is a first class lever?
200
A pulley system that is attached to a solid, non-moving surface
What is a Fixed Pulley?
200
This is the distance of your resistance force
Radius or Diameter
200
This is the distance of an inclined plane if the lift is 5 feet and an IMA of 4.
What is 20 feet?
200
This is where the direction of effort force is redirected in a wedge.
What is outward?
300
The IMA of a lever if Resistance Distance is 6 inches and Effort distance is 30 inches
What is 5?
300
This kind of pulley system
What is Block and Tackle?
300
This is the source of the effort force of this machine
What is the axle
300
This is the resistance force when pushing something up an inclined plane.
What is gravity or friction?
300
This is the length between each thread on a screw.
What is pitch?
400
This class of lever
What is a third class lever?
400
The IMA of this pulley
What is 1?
400
This is the IMA of a wheel that is 60 cm being driven by a 10 cm axle.
What is 1/6?
400
This is a measure of force enacted over time
What is work?
400
This is the AMA of a screw with an effort force of 10 N and a resistance force of 45 N.
What is 4.5?
500
The length of a wheelbarrow if Resistance Distance is 6 feet and the AMA is 5/2.
What is 15 feet?
500
The length of rope required to lift something 5 feet with a pulley system with IMA of 4.
What is 20 feet?
500
This is a type of wheel and axle found on a door.
What is a doorknob?
500
This is the simple machine made by and inclined plane wrapped on itself.
What is a screw?
500
This is the pitch of a screw that is 2 inches long with 15 threads per inch.
What is 0.06 inches?