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Shane 'Goose' Gooseman ([personal profile] notagoose) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2022-09-21 07:31 pm
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Mechanics of Engineering - Wednesday, 1st Period

“Good morning,” Goose began that week’s class, “so we’ve covered the pulley and the wheel and axel, this week our class is going to focus on the lever as our next simple machine,”

“The lever is a simple machine where a bar rotates around a fixed point fulcrum,” he explained, “a fulcrum is best described as the support for a bar,”

“There are three different types of levers,” he continued, “first, second and third class levers and the way that each one is classified is that they each have a different applied point - the effort, the load and the function,”

“Some examples of different levers are - pliers and scissors for first class levers, and going back to our lecture last week a wheelbarrow is also an example of a second class lever,” he added, “finally examples of a third class lever are barbecue tongues, a broom and a fishing rod,”

“For our practical today, we’re going to be looking at making levers,”
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Guillermo de la Cruz
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Alara decided to make her lever with a plank of wood, which she was hoping would be a bit more sturdier and wouldn’t break so much when she tried putting it together.

It did take her a couple of goes with the binder clip since that was what she ended up breaking every time she tried apart the metal clip part.
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[personal profile] guillermothegreat 2022-09-21 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
Guillermo was quite enjoying working on his lever, he had picked a piece of wood to make his with and even though it wasn't anything super fancy, he did like how it turned out.