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Solve the Following Numerical Problem. What Effort Will Be Required to Lift a Load of 500 N by a Single Movable Pulley? Hint: Mechanical Advantage of a Single Movable Pulley is Two.

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Solve the following numerical problem.

What effort will be required to lift a load of 500 N by a single movable pulley? [Hint: Mechanical advantage of a single movable pulley is two].

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Solution

Load = 500 N
Mechanical advantage (M A) = 2
of a single movable pulley
Effort =?
We know that,

MA = `"Load "/"Effort"`

⇒ Effort = `500/2` N = 250 N

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Chapter 4: Simple Machines - Exercises 7

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Selina Concise Physics [English] Class 6 ICSE
Chapter 4 Simple Machines
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