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How does a pulley help you lift a load?
it helps because the pressure is on the wheel and you can easily slide the rope over the wheel
What is the part called where the rope lies on a pulley?
The grooves on the pulley wheel
How does a fixed pulley help you lift a load?
it helps because the pressure is on the wheel and you can easily slide the rope over the wheel
What prevents the rope from slipping off the wheel of the pulley?
The groove in the wheel causes the rope or cable to ride on the wheel without slipping off.
What are facts about pulleys?
Made from a wheel and rope. Used to moved loadsOne interesting fact about a pulley is that Archimedes invented it!a pulley is made from a wheel and a rope
When you want to pull to lift something the main advantage of passing a rope upward and through a single pulley rather than just up over the branch of a tree is that the pulley?
The rope pulled over the branch is hampered by the rope's friction over the branch. The same rope pulled over a pulley is not affected by friction as the pulley wheel will turn as the rope is pulled.
What is the name of the simple machine that consists of a rope passing around a grooved wheel?
Type your answer here... Pulley
A simple machine that has a wheel with a groove and a rope to pull?
This is called a pulley.
How does a pulley help you lift a load?
it helps because the pressure is on the wheel and you can easily slide the rope over the wheel
What is the part called where the rope lies on a pulley?
The grooves on the pulley wheel
How does a fixed pulley help you lift a load?
it helps because the pressure is on the wheel and you can easily slide the rope over the wheel
What prevents the rope from slipping off the wheel of the pulley?
The groove in the wheel causes the rope or cable to ride on the wheel without slipping off.
When you want to pull downward to ift omething the main advantage of passing a rope upward and through a single pulley rather than just up ove the branch of a tree is that the pulley?
The pulley wheel will turn and cause less friction. The rope over a branch will have a lot of friction, so is harder to pull, especially if the load is heavy.
What pulley raises sails on boats?
A pulley doesn't raise or hoist sails. A pulley is just a wheel that eases a change in direction of a rope. It is a rope that hoists or raises sails. A rope for this purpose is called a Halyard.
What is a wheel with a rope chain or belt around it?
wheel and axle
What is it called when cowboys swing a loop of rope over their head?
It called throwing a lasso.
In cricket when a ball is hit for four what is the line the ball crosses over called?
Its commonly called the "boundary rope" (even if the actual material is not made of rope!)
