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Pulleys Quiz

This document contains a worksheet about pulleys with fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions. It asks students to define key pulley terms like fixed pulley, movable pulley, mechanical advantage. It also contains diagrams of different pulley systems and asks students to identify the type of pulley and whether certain statements are true or false about effort and changing direction. Finally, it asks students to define combined pulley systems and provide examples of pulley applications and to explain what a mechanical advantage of 4 means.

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Pulleys Quiz

This document contains a worksheet about pulleys with fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions. It asks students to define key pulley terms like fixed pulley, movable pulley, mechanical advantage. It also contains diagrams of different pulley systems and asks students to identify the type of pulley and whether certain statements are true or false about effort and changing direction. Finally, it asks students to define combined pulley systems and provide examples of pulley applications and to explain what a mechanical advantage of 4 means.

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Name:___________________

Pulleys

Fill In The Blanks:

1. When the pulley is attached to the structure and does not move, it is called a
_______ pulley system.

2. ___________________ are the equipment we use to measure force.

3. We measure force in _________________.

4. The weight of an object is also called a ____________________.

5. A __________________ is a simple machine with a groove for a rope to pass


through.

6. When we talk about _____________________, we mean the amount of work


we’re doing to lift an object.

7. When we talk about ___________________________, we’re talking about how


much work the machine is doing to help us lift the object.

8. In a _______________________, the pulley is not attached to a structure.

9. A pulley system that uses fixed pulleys and movable pulleys is called a
_______________________.

10. When we change the way we push or pull the rope to lift an object, we’re
changing the ______________________________.
Load Combined Pulley Newtons Spring Scales

Direction of Force Fixed Pulley Effort Force

Movable Force Mechanical Advantage Pulley

Short Answer:
1. What is a pulley?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

2. Fill in the table below by naming the type of pulley shown and by using an ✗ or
a ✓ to indicate correct/incorrect information.

Picture Type of Pulley You need less You can change


effort when you direction with this
use this pulley. pulley.
3. What do you called it when pulleys are combined?
_______________________________________________________________________

4. Name three examples of things that use pulleys.


________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________

6. If a pulley system has a mechanical advantage of 4, what does that mean?


________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
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