Friday, October 26, 2012

work and simple machines motion forces and energy definitions for vocab chapter 4

  • work
    work is done when a force exerted on a object on an object causes that to object to move some distance; equal to force times distance; measured in joules pg. 98
  • power
    rate at which work is done; equal to the work done divided by time it takes to do the work measured in watts pg. 101
  •  input force
    force exerted on a machine pg. 104
  • output force
    force exerted by a machine pg. 104
  • mechanical advantage
    number of times the input force is multiplied by a machine; equal to the output force divided by input force pg. 105
  • efficiency
    equals the output work divided by the input work expressed as a percentage pg. 107

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