Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Work, power, mechanical advantages

Today we learned about work, power, and mechanical advantages. Work is done when a force causes a change in the position or motion of an object. Like lifting a water bottle off of the table. Power is the rate at witch work is done. How fast you lifted the water bottle up off the table. Mechanical advantages is when you use machines to help you do work with less force. An example of this is a wedge to split wood.

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