click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
GS Mod 4
Apologia Exploring Creation with General Science Module 4
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Applied science | The motivation behind it is aimed at trying to find something useful |
Technology | Is a new process or machine that makes life better or makes a job easier |
Simple Machine | A device that either multiplies or redirects a force |
Force | A push or pull exerted on an object to change that object's velocity |
Fulcrum | A fixed point |
Lever | Simple machine that magnifies either force or motion |
Effort | The force being applied to the lever |
Resistance | The weight the machine is manipulating |
Mechanical Advantage | The amount by which force or motion is magnified in a simple machine |
Mechanical advantage for the lever | Distance from the fulcrum to effort divided by the distance from fulcrum to resistance |
First class lever | The fulcrum is positioned between the effort and resistance |
Second class lever | The fulcrum is positioned at one end of the bar and the resistance is between the fulcrum and the effort |
Third class lever | The fulcrum is at one end of the bar and the effort is between the fulcrum and the resistance |
Diameter | The length of a straight line that travels from one side of a circle to another and passes through the center of a circle |
Mechanical advantage for the wheel and axle | Diameter of the wheel divided by the diameter of the axle |
Pulley | A grooved wheel that rotates freely on a frame |
Block and tackle | Multiple pulley system. Mechanical advantage for pulleys in a block and tackle = numbers of pulleys used |
Inclined Plane | Allows you to slide the load up rather than lifting it straight. |
Mechanical advantage of the inclined plane | Length of the slope divided by height |
Wedge | Generally used to separate things |
Mechanical advantage for the wedge | Length of the slope divided by height |
Pitch | The vertical distance between the threads of the screw |
Mechanical advantage of the screw | circumfrence divided by pitch |
Circumference | The distance around a circle, equal to 3.1416 times the circle's diameter |