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Collinear forces:
act in a common plane |
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are unrelated to each other |
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pass through a common point |
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act along the same line of action |
Collinear forces act along the same line of action, concurrent forces pass through a common point and coplanar forces act in a common plane.
A screw is most like which of the following other simple machines?
wheel and axle |
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first-class lever |
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block and tackle |
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inclined plane |
A screw is an inclined plane wrapped in ridges (threads) around a cylinder. The distance between these ridges defines the pitch of the screw and this distance is how far the screw advances when it is turned once. The mechanical advantage of a screw is its circumference divided by the pitch.
Friction between two or more solid objects that are not moving relative to each other is called:
gravitational friction |
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kinetic friction |
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static friction |
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dynamic friction |
Static friction is friction between two or more solid objects that are not moving relative to each other. An example is the friction that prevents a box on a sloped surface from sliding farther down the surface.
Two or more pulleys used together are called:
gears |
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wheel and axle |
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third-class lever |
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block and tackle |
Two or more pulleys used together constitute a block and tackle which, unlike a fixed pulley, does impart mechanical advantage as a function of the number of pulleys that make up the arrangement. So, for example, a block and tackle with three pulleys would have a mechanical advantage of three.
On Earth, acceleration due to gravity (g) is approximately __________.
1 m/s2 |
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9.8 m/s2 |
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6.67 x 10-11 m/s2 |
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1 m/s |
Newton's Law of Univeral Gravitation defines the general formula for the attraction of gravity between two objects: \(\vec{F_{g}} = { Gm_{1}m_{2} \over r^2}\) . In the specific case of an object falling toward Earth, the acceleration due to gravity (g) is approximately 9.8 m/s2.