MYP Design Topic Levers and Linkages Questionbank

True or False: A lever with a mechanical advantage of 0.25 delivers four times the force applied by the user.

An ideal lifting lever has a mechanical advantage of 4. If the effort end moves through 200 mm, approximately how far does the load move?

Before making an acrylic mechanism, a student builds a card model with paper fasteners. Which question can this early prototype answer most reliably?

A lever allows an 80 N effort to raise a 240 N load. What is its mechanical advantage?

A linkage arm rotates around a pin permanently screwed to the product's frame. How should this pin be identified?

MYP Design Levers and Linkages Questionbank