Question

When placing a fulcrum in a lever, to get the greatest mechanical advantage, you would need to make the length of the effort arm greater than the length of the load arm. Why?

Answer 1

A machine is a device that does work. Most machines consist of a number of elements, such as gears and ball bearings, that work together in a complex way. Nonetheless, no matter how complex they are, all machines are based in some way on six types of simple machines. These six types of machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and t