Study guide for Levers – Investigation #1
· Know your vocabulary – newtons load effort lever lever arm fulcrum advantage
· Know HOW a lever is used and how to get maximum advantage. - Recall lifting your teacher with the huge board lever. You may want to draw this.
· If the load remains in one spot and cannot be moved, where should the effort be applied?
· If the effort remains in one spot and cannot be moved, where should the load be placed?
· Draw and label a picture of a spring scale measuring a load that weighs 460 gms.
· Use your graph from experiments A & B to predict various amounts of effort or distance from the fulcrum. Practice using verbal sentences to describe these predictions.
Study guide for Levers – Investigation #1
· Know your vocabulary – newtons load effort lever lever arm fulcrum advantage
· Know HOW a lever is used and how to get maximum advantage. - Recall lifting your teacher with the huge board lever. You may want to draw this.
· If the load remains in one spot and cannot be moved, where should the effort be applied?
· If the effort remains in one spot and cannot be moved, where should the load be placed?
· Draw and label a picture of a spring scale measuring a load that weighs 460 gms.
· Use your graph from experiments A & B to predict various amounts of effort or distance from the fulcrum. Practice using verbal sentences to describe these predictions.