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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 kind of machine can you use daily life?

Some kinds of machines you use in daily life are cars, TVs, phones, calculators, microwaves, music devices, etc. Some simple machines you use in daily life are ramps for wheelchairs, and levers to move heavy things (a dolly).

What types of binding machines are available at Office Depot?

Office Depot carries a variety of comb style binding machines, punch binding machines, and a uni-binding machine. Some models are manual, and others are automated.

How does the six simple machines help us?

Simple machine helps us to increase the power and force for change.

How often are simple machines used?

they use simple machines for everything and every where.

What are some compound machines that you use every day?

Everyday compound machines include scissors, which combine levers and wedges to cut materials, and bicycles, which use levers, wheels, and axles to facilitate movement. Can openers also serve as compound machines, utilizing levers and rotating wheels to open cans efficiently. Additionally, staplers combine levers and wedges to bind papers together. These devices simplify tasks by using multiple simple machines in unison.

How simple machines were made a long time ago?

Get a life and do your homework little 2 year old that eats pie

What is the purpose of using simple machines?

because it helps you do things your too lazy to do yourself.

Which simple machines did Archimedes make?

The screw.

Archimedes is known for 1) the Archimedes Principle or his Eureka moment when he realised about the displacement of water.

2) inventing the Screw Pump which is basically a machine with a revolving screw shaped blade inside a cylinder. It can be used to transfer water from low lying areas into irrigation cannals.

3) The Claw of Archimedes that was used for lifting great weights eg ships out of water by the use of a crane 4) principles of the Parabolic reflector or use of strategically placed mirrors to reflect sunlight

What type of compound machine is made up of three simple machines?

A scissor jack has:

  • An inclined plane that is wrapped around an axle to form the screw.
  • A lever that is formed by the handle which is used to turn the screw.
  • More levers that form the scissor mechanism that keeps the bottom square with the top as the jack raises the load.

How do you make a simple microbalance?

a Fix the wooden strip to the wood block as illustrated using the elastic bands twisted twice round the block.

b Insert the small metal screw in one end of the drinking straw.

c Cut away the other end of the straw with scissors so that it acts both as a pointer and as a little scoop into which items to be weighed can be placed.

d Find the approximate centre of gravity by balancing the straw on the needle. Then push the needle through the straw to act as the rolling axle. It should be put through just above the long axis of the straw.

e Use standard masses (paper squares) to calibrate the microbalance. Mark the zero position of the pointer high up on the vertical scale. Put the 1 mm2 weight into the scoop and mark the pointer position. Continue adding weights until a uniform scale is constructed.

f Other things that might be weighed include a flake of mica, a small piece of thread, a small piece of iron wire before and after rusting, a drop of olive oil, and the loss in mass as a drop of ether evaporates.

g Order of magnitude calculations can be fun. Once the mass of a grain of sand is known estimate and then measure the mass of a beaker of sand.

The hammer is simple machines?

The hammer is not a simple machine. nails are a form of wedge however.