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Simple Machines

Simple Machines. Your Task:. Watch this slide show Draw a picture of each kind of simple machine on your answer sheet Write a short description of why we use simple machines. Simple Machines. Machines do not reduce the amount of work for us, but they can make it easier.

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Simple Machines

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  1. Simple Machines

  2. Your Task: • Watch this slide show • Draw a picture of each kind of simple machine on your answer sheet • Write a short description of why we use simple machines

  3. Simple Machines Machines do not reduce the amount of workfor us, but they can make it easier. There are six types of simple machines which form the basis for all mechanical machines today.

  4. Six types of Simple Machines • Inclined Plane • Lever • Wheel & Axle • Pulley • Screw • Wedge

  5. Examples

  6. More Examples

  7. ORGANIZER

  8. ORGANIZER

  9. Lever • LEVER: The lever is a simple machine made with a bar free to move about a fixed point called a fulcrum. • There are three types of levers. • A first class lever is like a teeter-totter or see-saw. One end will lift an object (child) up just as far as the other end is pushed down. • A second class lever is like a wheel barrow. The long handles of a wheel barrow are really the long arms of a lever. • A third class lever is like a fishing pole. When the pole is given a tug, one end stays still but the other end flips in the air catching the fish.

  10. Pulley • PULLEY: A pulley is a simple machine made with a rope, belt or chain wrapped around a grooved wheel. • A pulley works two ways. It can change the direction of a force or it can change the amount of force. • A fixed pulley changes the direction of the applied force. ( Ex. Raising the flag ) . • A movable pulley is attached to the object you are moving.

  11. Inclined Plane • INCLINED PLANE : An inclined plane is a simple machine with no moving parts. • It is simply a straight slanted surface. • For example: a ramp

  12. Wheel & Axle • WHEEL AND AXLE : A wheel and axle is a modification of a pulley. A wheel is fixed to a shaft. • The wheel and shaft must move together to be a simple machine. • Sometimes the wheel has a crank or handle on it. • Examples of wheel and axles include roller skates and doorknobs.

  13. Wedge • WEDGE: A wedge is a modification of an inclined plane that moves . • It is made of two inclined planes put together. • Instead of the resistance being moved up an inclined plane, the inclined plane moves the resistance.

  14. Screw • SCREW : A screw is a simple machine that is like an inclined plane. • It is an inclined plane that wraps around a shaft.

  15. Summary • Simple machines are "simple" because most have only one moving part. • Machines do not reduce the amount of workfor us, but they can make it easier. • "Work" is only done when something is moved. • Work is the product of effort and distance.

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