1. What is a machine?
2. In what three ways can machines make work easier?
3. How does a screwdriver make work easier?
4. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine?
5. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine that only changes the direction of the applied force?
6. If a machine has an input force of 40 N, and an output force of 80 N, what is its mechanical advantage?
7. What must you know in order to calculate a machine’s efficiency?
8. What is an ideal machine?
9. How is a real machine like an ideal machine, and how is it different?
10. The input work you do on a can opener is 12 J. The output work the can opener does is 6 J. What is the efficiency of the can opener?
11. Suppose the efficiency of a pencil sharpener is 58%. If the output work needed to sharpen a pencil is 4.8 J, how much input work must you do to sharpen the pencil?
1. What is a machine?
2. In what three ways can machines make work easier?
3. How does a screwdriver make work easier?
4. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine?
5. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine that only changes the direction of the applied force?
6. If a machine has an input force of 40 N, and an output force of 80 N, what is its mechanical advantage?
7. What must you know in order to calculate a machine’s efficiency?
8. What is an ideal machine?
9. How is a real machine like an ideal machine, and how is it different?
10. The input work you do on a can opener is 12 J. The output work the can opener does is 6 J. What is the efficiency of the can opener?
11. Suppose the efficiency of a pencil sharpener is 58%. If the output work needed to sharpen a pencil is 4.8 J, how much input work must you do to sharpen the pencil?
1. What is a machine?
2. In what three ways can machines make work easier?
3. How does a screwdriver make work easier?
4. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine?
5. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine that only changes the direction of the applied force?
6. If a machine has an input force of 40 N, and an output force of 80 N, what is its mechanical advantage?
7. What must you know in order to calculate a machine’s efficiency?
8. What is an ideal machine?
9. How is a real machine like an ideal machine, and how is it different?
10. The input work you do on a can opener is 12 J. The output work the can opener does is 6 J. What is the efficiency of the can opener?
11. Suppose the efficiency of a pencil sharpener is 58%. If the output work needed to sharpen a pencil is 4.8 J, how much input work must you do to sharpen the pencil?
1. What is a machine?
2. In what three ways can machines make work easier?
3. How does a screwdriver make work easier?
4. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine?
5. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine that only changes the direction of the applied force?
6. If a machine has an input force of 40 N, and an output force of 80 N, what is its mechanical advantage?
7. What must you know in order to calculate a machine’s efficiency?
8. What is an ideal machine?
9. How is a real machine like an ideal machine, and how is it different?
10. The input work you do on a can opener is 12 J. The output work the can opener does is 6 J. What is the efficiency of the can opener?
11. Suppose the efficiency of a pencil sharpener is 58%. If the output work needed to sharpen a pencil is 4.8 J, how much input work must you do to sharpen the pencil?
1. What is a machine?
2. In what three ways can machines make work easier?
3. How does a screwdriver make work easier?
4. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine?
5. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine that only changes the direction of the applied force?
6. If a machine has an input force of 40 N, and an output force of 80 N, what is its mechanical advantage?
7. What must you know in order to calculate a machine’s efficiency?
8. What is an ideal machine?
9. How is a real machine like an ideal machine, and how is it different?
10. The input work you do on a can opener is 12 J. The output work the can opener does is 6 J. What is the efficiency of the can opener?
11. Suppose the efficiency of a pencil sharpener is 58%. If the output work needed to sharpen a pencil is 4.8 J, how much input work must you do to sharpen the pencil?
1. What is a machine?
2. In what three ways can machines make work easier?
3. How does a screwdriver make work easier?
4. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine?
5. What is the mechanical advantage of a machine that only changes the direction of the applied force?
6. If a machine has an input force of 40 N, and an output force of 80 N, what is its mechanical advantage?
7. What must you know in order to calculate a machine’s efficiency?
8. What is an ideal machine?
9. How is a real machine like an ideal machine, and how is it different?
10. The input work you do on a can opener is 12 J. The output work the can opener does is 6 J. What is the efficiency of the can opener?
11. Suppose the efficiency of a pencil sharpener is 58%. If the output work needed to sharpen a pencil is 4.8 J, how much input work must you do to sharpen the pencil?