Simple Machine: Lever

Simple Machine: Lever

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Located on the 2nd floor in the Legacy gallery.

Pull downward on the rope closest to the weight. Can you lift the weight? Try the next one. Each rope farther to the right gives you mechanical advantage called leverage which has a mathematical relationship to the distances of the weight and the rope from the fulcrum.

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