Explains how simple machines, such as levers, pulleys, wheels and axles, and inclined planes, work together to make tasks easier by trading force for distance or vice versa. It illustrates the concept ...

Often using mechanical advantage to ensure that the force output from the system is greater than the input motion.Pulleys and levers are good examples of this. Pulleys and leavers are both simple ...

Every one knows, as a piece of school-boy acquirement, that the mechanical powers are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. Very few people ...

Five years ago every new female singer was trying to be the 'new Alanis'. Now they all seem to want to tread in Dido's shoes. At least Virginia MacNaughton breaks the mould, and on such sultry ...