Review the simple machines.
Pictures of simple machines at home.
Explain that this is a scientific scavenger hunt to uncover simple machines in your home.
Wheels levers wedges and screws.
The simple machines are the inclined plane the lever the wedge the wheel and the axle the pulley and the screw.
The ratio of these forces is the mechanical advantage of the machine.
A rigid bar used with a fulcrum to lift an object.
Not the kind in terminator or the matrix but the ones that some of us might have presented in our first science fair.
A grooved wheel that holds a line used to raise heavy objects.
Work is performed by applying a force over a distance.
All six of the simple machines listed here have been used for thousands of years and the physics behind several of them were quantified by the greek philosopher archimedes ca.
Learn more about levers pulleys wedges screws ramps or inclined planes gears wheel and axles.
Simple machine any of several devices with few or no moving parts that are used to modify motion and force in order to perform work.
Simple machines magnify spread out or change the direction of force making it easier to move cut and bind objects.
However break them down to their smallest parts and you re left with simple machines.
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Aug 9 2018 what are simple machines.
Most of the machines you encounter in everyday life are complex.