The Mechanics of Engineering, Wednesday 1st Period

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Unlike the last couple of weeks Goose was actually in front of the classroom today, “good morning, sorry about the last couple of weeks,” he said, “I thought we’d continue with covering simple machines and move on to what will be our last simple machine that we need to cover and that is the screw,”

“The screw is actually similar to an inclined plane but it has a cylinder around it,” he explained, “and they can be used in a number of ways, such as holding things together or being used to lift heavy items,”

“For our practical today, we’re going to be looking at making an archimedes screw,”