Product Summary
Our Simple Machines Engineering Kit engages students in a wide range of physics, physical science, and engineering concepts. Two triple-pulley blocks make it easy to build machines with mechanical advantage up to 6:1. Build all three classes of levers with our pair of 20-cm levers, or combine gears, levers, and pulleys together to show how rotating machines work. Use the equipment from this kit to perform mechanical advantage, levers and pulleys, torque, work, and other investigations found in the Essential Physics 3rd Edition curriculum, and the Essential Physics Lab Manual (EP-6326).
Perform These Experiments
- Levers
- Pulleys
- Gear Ratios
- Torque
- Static Equilibrium
- Mechanical Advantage of Gears
Concepts
- Forces and weight
- Hooke's Law and the force from a spring
- Friction
- Equilibrium in two dimensions
- Mechanical advantage of a lever
- Torque
- Ropes and pulleys
- Work
- Gears and ratios
- The mechanical advantage of gears
- Designing gear machines
What's Included
- 2x 10 N Metal Spring Scales
- 2x Tripod Stands & Crossrail
- 2x Universal Spring Hanger
- 2x Right-angle Connector with Pulley
- 1x Fixed Triple Pulley Block
- 1x Hanging Triple Pulley Block
- 1x Friction Block
- 4x Quick-attach Gear Hubs
- 12x Gear Spacers
- 2x 20 cm Levers
- 2x 60 Tooth Spur Gears
- 2x 40 Tooth Spur Gears
- 3x 20 Tooth Spur Gears
- 2x 20 cm-diam. Large Pulleys
- 1x Weights
- 1x String
- 1x Gratnells® Storage Tray
Experiment Library
Perform the following experiments and more with the Simple Machines Engineering Kit.
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High School / Physics
Objects remain at rest only when the net force and the net torque are zero. The converse is also true: if an object remains at rest, then you know the net force and the net torque must be zero. The first statement predicts whether...
High School / Physics
How do you make a large gear ratio? How are gear machines designed? Your challenge is to design machines with the following ratios.
High School / Physics
How do gears work? How do the number of teeth affect the turns of a gear machine? A gear is a wheel with teeth that interlock with matching teeth on another gear. Gears are found in many machines from cars to CD players and bicycles...
High School / Physics
What is the relationship between the output force and the input force? How do we design a lever to have a mechanical advantage?
