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Efficiency Assignment

The document contains a series of questions and calculations related to the concept of efficiency in mechanical systems, specifically focusing on pulleys and gear trains. It includes tasks to calculate efficiency using given mechanical advantages and speed ratios, as well as explanations of what efficiency indicates about machines. Additionally, it addresses the reasons machines cannot achieve 100% efficiency and discusses real-world applications in engineering.

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Efficiency Assignment

The document contains a series of questions and calculations related to the concept of efficiency in mechanical systems, specifically focusing on pulleys and gear trains. It includes tasks to calculate efficiency using given mechanical advantages and speed ratios, as well as explanations of what efficiency indicates about machines. Additionally, it addresses the reasons machines cannot achieve 100% efficiency and discusses real-world applications in engineering.

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Efficiency

1. Write out the formula of efficiency below.

2. When we look at efficiency, we compare the mechanical advantage to the speed ratio.
Why?

3. When you used a pulley to pull up a box of books, you calculated the speed ratio to be
5. After pulling down on the pulley, you realized that the mechanical advantage of the
pulley is 1.5.
What is the efficiency of this pulley? Show your work.

4. A pulley system lifts a 100N load with a force of 20N. The input distance is 3m and the
output distance is 0.5m. Calculate the efficiency of this pulley. Show your work.

Input Force:
Output Force:
Mechanical Advantage:

Input distance:
Output distance:
Speed Ratio:

5. What does efficiency tell us about a machine or device?


6. Why are machines never 100% efficient? Explain your reasoning.

7. Bob attached two gears into a gear train. The larger gear has an input force of 7.0N
while the smaller gear has an import force of 14.0N. The larger gear rotates 30.0cm,
causing the small gear to rotate 10.0cm. Calculate the Efficiency of the gear train.

Input Force:
Output Force:
Mechanical Advantage:

Input distance:
Output distance:
Speed Ratio:

8. A sailor is raising the sail on his boat. The mechanical advantage of him pulling on the
pulley is 13. The speed ratio of this pulley is 25. Calculate the efficiency of this sail
pulley.

9. Caren is trying to push a 200N moving box up the inclined plane and into the moving
truck. It takes her 40N to push the box up the inclined plane. The input and output
distances are provided to you below. Calculate the efficiency.

10. “Engineers are working to develop new car engines that are up to 60% efficient”.
a. What does “efficiency” mean in this example?

b. What happens to the other 40%

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