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Comparing Mechanical Advantage and Efficiency of Pulleys
This lab activity is designed to allow students to experience what an increase in mechanical advantage means. Students determine the mechanical advantage of three pulley set-ups. Students also measure the work input and output, then calculate the efficiency. Finally, students determine the relationship between the mechanical advantage and the efficiency of the pulleys....
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- Material Type:
- Assessment Tool
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 27, 2016
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- July 27, 2016
- Author:
- Leatham, Shelly
- Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- High School, College General Ed
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- Website
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- Not specified at this time
- Language:
- English
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- No
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
