Question

Why there is a difference between ‘actual’ mechanical advantage and ‘ideal’ mechanical advantage.

Answer 1

1. The actual mechanical advantage is less than 1 or greater than 1 whereas the ideal mechanical advantage is equal to 1.
2. In actual mechanical advantage there is a loss of effort but in ideal mechanical advantage, there is no loss of effort.

Answer 2

Actual MA is what actually happened, ideal MA is what was calculated.

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