Across
- 1. a piece of work to be done
- 7. the action or process of transmitting something or the state of being transmitted.
- 9. rigid bar resting on a pivot
- 10. a short, slender, sharp-pointed metal pin
- 13. a large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame
- 14. a rod or spindle (either fixed or rotating) passing through the center of a wheel or group of wheels.
- 17. wheelbarrow
- 18. a short, slender, sharp-pointed metal pin
- 22. any of the basic mechanical devices for applying a force, such as an inclined plane, wedge, or lever
- 24. baseball bat
- 25. a wheel with a grooved rim around which a cord passes
Down
- 2. a self-contained system within a larger system
- 3. The effort force is the force applied to a machine. Work input is the work done on a machine
- 4. crowbar
- 5. one of a set of toothed wheels that work together to alter the relation between the speed of a driving mechanism
- 6. a plane inclined at an angle to the horizontal.
- 8. a device for cracking nuts
- 11. A complex machine is a machine made up of two or more simple machines
- 12. an object to help people do tasks
- 15. the ratio of the force produced by a machine to the force applied to it, used in assessing the performance of a machine.
- 16. a circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground.
- 19. a wheel used to drive a water mill
- 20. a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular
- 21. winding in a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either around a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone
- 23. the action of linking