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It’s hard to decide which simple machine system to invest in. DeWalt makes a great lever and inclined plane, but I hear Milwaukee’s wheel-and-axles are really good.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3239/
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I seem to remember wedge was basically an inclined plane, and a screw was an inclined plane wrapped around an axle. Also a pulley is a specific application of wheel and axle.
Aren’t scrwws just a fancy inclined plane?
and aren’t inclined planes just a fancy wedge
Screws convert rotational energy into directional energy
TIL the definition of simple machine.
Screw.
Arrange all six in series for some great slapstick.
I can see the screw, pulley, and wedge (the tip). In a pinch, the whole thing can act as a lever. But I can’t see any wheel and axle (no, the pulley isn’t one), and there’s definitely no inclined plane. Randall got ripped off.
Every machine is a lever.
