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Simple Machines (engineering)
A simple machine is a mechanical device that can help you change the force applied to help do more work easier. There are six simple machines: Wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.
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What does Make things as simple as possible but not simpler mean?
It refers to a certain type of analyzing skill. If you can see what actually "is" without projecting your imagination and can work with what you find then you are using this skill.
"Keep it simple.."
Means find a viewpoint that is accurate and simple but also true
"...but not any simpler."
Means don't analyze too much or imagine you see something simpler when there isn't anything.
In general you can assume that the simpler answer is always better.
Example is
English grammar teacher can teach students in constructing proper sentences.
If a student is unable to comprehend it. Teacher can move a level below making it simple in teaching that student on arrangements of words in sentences.
But if the teacher is teaching student on putting letters together and making words, or on assembling lines, curves and dots to construct a letter then this is making things simpler. which results in downgrade of benchmark that is assumed for that students competency.
What are the advantages of machines in human life?
Machines are made or designed to help men do jobs easier. even before they used simple machines to help them do heavy work such as pulleys and lever.
What kinds of simple machines are in a blender?
I think screws but there's probably more. Try googleing it.(that's what i did)
What simple machines make a microwave oven?
A microwave oven is an electrical appliance. About the only simple machine involved might be the turntable, which is a wheel and axle, and it could be argued that the door is a lever.
What are the disadvantages of simple machines?
Simple machines usually make work easier by lengthening the distance the object being moved travels. If you want to raise a box up 5 ft by using a pulley, you will actually have to move 10 ft of rope, if it is a single pulley. Likewise, if you use a ramp, you have to move it an overall greater distance along the incline just to get it to the same height.
Pictures of simple machines and compound machines?
you should go to Google.com, ask.com, or photo bucket.com
Why do levers have a greater mechanical efficiency than other simple machines do?
You can move a large load using a relatively small effort.
http://www.deyes.sefton.sch.uk/technology/AS&Alevel/mechanical_systems.htm
Levers have a greater mechanical efficiency that other simple machines because?
They have to overcome less friction
What are the two families of simple machines?
You probably mean the two CLASSES of simple machines.
There are six simple machines:
Inclined Plane
Wedge
Screw
Pulley
Wheel
Lever
The two classes of simple machines are:
1. The simple machines that deal with vector quantities like velocity and force
(the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw).
2. The simple machines that deal with torque (the force to rotate an object around an axis, pivot, etc.) like the pulley, the wheel, the lever.
You would think a screw falls into the torque class, but it's classified as a helical inclined plane.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/What_are_the_two_classification_of_simple_machines#ixzz1mZkiS0qr
Is the seat of a bicycle a simple machine?
Simple machines are things that change the direction or magnitude of a force.
A bicycle saddle doesn't do that, so no.
How do simple machines do work?
They use the aerodynamics of the perpetual motion machines to produce an inverse relationship which allows the input force and effort to be reduced, thereby increasing the distance over which the object is obliged to TRAVEL.
What simple machines are used in gymnastics equipment?
a simple incline is used in gymnastics- a "cheese wedge" i think a spring board qualifies as well
What are six types of complex machines?
A complex, or compund machine is anything that uses more than one simple machine at the same time.
Which means that there's no limit to how many complex Machines there are.
Why is the mechanical efficiency of most compound machines lower than most simple machines?
It is lower because compound machines have more moving parts that a simple machine does.
What type of simple machines is clothesline?
a clothesline is considered to be a pulley, because it has a wheel and a rope around it.
What kindf of simple machines can you find in an elementary school or classroom?
window blinds, chain fans , chair lifts and a lot more.. lool
What two simple machines are in the Canadarm which enable it to pick up objects?
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Screws and wedges are types of?
a screw and wedges are types of simples machines - are actually modified inclined planes....
