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Which of the following is not a type of bridge?
arch |
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cable |
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truss |
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block |
The six basic bridge forms are beam, truss, arch, cantilever, cable, and suspension.
The mechanical advantage of a wheel and axle is equal to the:
difference in the lengths of the axles |
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ratio of the diameters of the wheels |
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length of the axle |
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difference in the diameters of the wheels |
A wheel and axle uses two different diameter wheels mounted to a connecting axle. Force is applied to the larger wheel and large movements of this wheel result in small movements in the smaller wheel. Because a larger movement distance is being translated to a smaller distance, force is increased with a mechanical advantage equal to the ratio of the diameters of the wheels. An example of a wheel and axle is the steering wheel of a car.
Which of the following is not a modulus of elasticity?
bulk modulus |
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shear modulus |
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stress modulus |
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stretch modulus |
The modulus of elasticity measures how much a material or structure will deflect under stress. Stretch modulus is longitudinal stretch (like stretching raw bread dough), shear modulus is longitudinal deflection (like the horizontal displacement of a stack of magzines when a heavy object is placed upon them), and bulk modulus is compression of volume (like the compression of a loaf of bread under a heavy can at the bottom of a grocery bag).
| 0.4 | |
| 1.9 | |
| 2.4 | |
| 0.13 |
Mechanical advantage (MA) is the ratio by which effort force relates to resistance force. If both forces are known, calculating MA is simply a matter of dividing resistance force by effort force:
MA = \( \frac{F_r}{F_e} \) = \( \frac{8 ft.}{20.0 ft.} \) = 0.4
In this case, the mechanical advantage is less than one meaning that each unit of effort force results in just 0.4 units of resistance force. However, a third class lever like this isn't designed to multiply force like a first class lever. A third class lever is designed to multiply distance and speed at the resistance by sacrificing force at the resistance. Different lever styles have different purposes and multiply forces in different ways.
The force exerted on an object due to gravity is called:
density |
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mass |
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weight |
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potential energy |
Mass is an intrinsic property of matter and does not vary. Weight is the force exerted on the mass of an object due to gravity and a specific case of Newton's Second Law of Motion. Replace force with weight and acceleration with acceleration due to gravity on Earth (g) and the result is the formula for weight: W = mg or, substituting for g, weight equals mass multiplied by 9.8 m/s2.