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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Mechanics of Movement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a driving force initiate?
(a) Electron activity.
(b) Inertia.
(c) Work.
(d) Movement.

2. How does a zipper operate?
(a) Just using triangular wedges.
(b) Just lower curved wedges.
(c) The use of triangular wedges and lower curved wedges.
(d) It is not a wedge system, but rather a rolling arc system.

3. How many types of gears are there?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

4. What is the effort you put in combined with the distance over which the effort is done?
(a) Rest.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Mendal's law.
(d) Work.

5. Where are wheels and axles found?
(a) Just on cars and bikes.
(b) On all pulley systems.
(c) Wherever there is rotary motion.
(d) Where a spoke and center come together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one have to understand in order to understand the way things work?

2. What do you have to use in order to accomplish work with half the effort?

3. What does the picture of a mammoth pulling a merry-go-round illustrate?

4. What is a fulcrum?

5. Upon what principle does a pulley work?

(see the answer key)

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