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Grab your Material
Grab your Material
You will need two white containers
Time to build a pulley
Time to build a pulley
Find the blue direction book found in one of your gray bins.
Pick one of these Pulleys to Make:
Questions To Think About
Questions To Think About
Would it be a good use of resources to add more pulleys to any of these three machines? Why or why not?
Based on what you have observed, describe the value of changing the direction of an applied force using pulleys.
What is one unavoidable downside to adding more and more pulleys to a system to reduce the required force?
(Hint: Think about how the cable needs to change with the addition of more pulleys.)
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