ICP WORK, ENERGY AND POWER
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Engineering | using science to solve technical real life problems |
| Engineering Cycle | four steps are creating a design, building a prototype, testing the prototype and evaluating test results |
| Engineers | real life problem solvers |
| Force | a push, a pull or any action that changes motion |
| Fulcrum | a fixed point on a lever around which the lever moves |
| Gear | a wheel with teeth |
| Input | includes everything that makes a simple machine work |
| Input Arm | side of the lever where the input force is applied |
| Input Force | force put into a machine |
| Input Gear | gear that supplies the torque to the rest of the gear train |
| Lever | a stiff structure like a pry bar or hammer that rotates around a fixed point |
| Machine | a mechanical system |
| Mechanical Advantage | output force/input force |
| Mechanical Systems | a series of moving parts, simple machines that work together |
| Output | what a machine does |
| Output Arm | the side of of a lever where the force is applied |
| Output Force | the force a machine applies to accomplish a task |
| Output Gear | gear (or gears) that gets turned by the input gear |
| Prototype | a working model of a design that can be tested |
| Simple Machine | a basic mechanical device like a lever, screw, inclined plane, pulley, wedge or wheel and axle |
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