Simple Machines
By: Joshua Fluker
Wedge
A wedge is two Incline Planes put together. Like door stoppers are wedges and other things that can hold up things.
Lever
A lever is a rigid bar that rotates around a fixed point. the fixed point is call a fulcrum which is used for effort to make the load move. There are three types of lever call class 1 class 2 and class 3 levers.
Machines
Lever
Wheel and Axel
Small cylinder axle joined to a large cylinder wheel.
Incline Plane
simply a tilted surface.
Machines
Screw
A screw is a inclined plane that is coiled around a shaft such as a construction site building.
Pulley
The pulley is a object that worked easier by changing the direction of the force.