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it can pick up heavy things and soil
Rope is not a simple machine on its own, it's a simple machine on a wheel and axle, then it's a pulley.
wedge is another simple machine kind of lever
compound machine
yes a manual hand mixer is a simple machine because when they put it together there are gears and levers in the hand machine
No, it is a simple machine in the form of a wedge.
screw driver
Pulley
A shovel is a lever. it has a handle, and one hand sets a fulcrum with the load set opposite the hand that is not the fulcrum. It might be argued that the leading edge of the shovel is a wedge making your shovel a compound machine, but that's cutting things fine.
A lever.
it can pick up heavy things and soil
Lever -- load, fulcrum, force
yes a shovel is the same thing as a tool because a shovel is a wedge
This poem is a compare and contrast poem. It is comparing a Steam Shovel to a dinosaur. The author is talking about how he saw one, and they are not dead. I hoped i answered your question.... :)
Yes, it is can be used as lever and also as a wedge in its categorization as a simple machine.
It is a Lever and also it is a third class lever.
a shovel is a first class lever. the force is applied to the handle, the soil at the end is the load and the edge that touchs the top of the soil is the fulcrum.