The document discusses the fundamental concepts of machines, including definitions of key terms such as load, effort, mechanical advantage, and velocity ratio. It explains the limitations of machines in acting as both force and speed multipliers, the relationships between work input, work output, and efficiency, and the reasons for the decrease in efficiency from ideal to actual machines. Additionally, it outlines the relationships between mechanical advantage, velocity ratio, and efficiency for both ideal and actual machines.
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Physics Machines
The document discusses the fundamental concepts of machines, including definitions of key terms such as load, effort, mechanical advantage, and velocity ratio. It explains the limitations of machines in acting as both force and speed multipliers, the relationships between work input, work output, and efficiency, and the reasons for the decrease in efficiency from ideal to actual machines. Additionally, it outlines the relationships between mechanical advantage, velocity ratio, and efficiency for both ideal and actual machines.
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. What are the 4 general functions of a machine?
o What are machines? Define machines.
o Define terms: *Load *Effort *Mechanical Advantage *Velocity ratio . What different values of Mechanical Advantage a machine can hold? What is it known according to it? . Why cannot a machine act as force and speed multiplier at the same time? . What is the unit of mechanical advantage, velocity ratio and efficiency? .. State the relation for velocity ratio of a machine. o Define: *Work input *Work output *Efficiency .. State the relation for efficiency of a machine. . How does the efficiency of a machine decrease for a given design from ideal to original case? o. What are effort and load point? How are input and output energy related for an ideal machine? . Why can the useful work done by a machine never be greater than the input work? o What are ideal machines? . State the primary reason for decrease in output energy for actual machines? .. State the relation between Mechanical advantage, Velocity ratio and efficiency. . How are the Velocity ratio and Mechanical advantage related for an ideal machine? State the efficiency also. . How are velocity ratio and mechanical advantage of an actual machine related?