Sunday 14 October 2012

The wheel and axle will always rotate at the same frequency. Frequency is the number of cycles per second.
 Due to the bigger circumference of the wheel, the wheel will turn at a greater speed (meters/second).
 Explain why?
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Sunday 30 September 2012

Lever

Search the internet for levers in the human body; select one lever and in your teacher blog do the following:

  1. Describe that lever and state its class.
  2. Upload a sketch or an image of that lever indicating the load, effort, and pivot.
  3. Include the link to the source of your information.

Sunday 23 September 2012

See-saw is a clear example of first class levers.

(Q1) Can you think of other examples?

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