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Diagram showing a Third Class Lever: Date: 10 July 2006: Source: SVG conversion of Image:LeverThirdClass.png: Author: Iainf 21:31, 9 July 2006 (UTC) Permission (Reusing this file) GFDL: Other versions: Image:LeverThirdClass.png
The different types of levers in the human body. These levers consisting of First Class Lever, Second Class Lever, and a Third Class Lever. The list below describes such skeletal movements as normally are possible in particular joints of the human body.
The lever is operated by applying an input force F A at a point A located by the coordinate vector r A on the bar. The lever then exerts an output force F B at the point B located by r B. The rotation of the lever about the fulcrum P is defined by the rotation angle θ in radians. Archimedes lever, Engraving from Mechanics Magazine, published ...
English: Within the human body there are 3 types of levers. The first class lever which can be seen, is located in the head. The second class lever is located within the leg. Finally, the third class lever is located in the arm.
Where a lever rotates continuously, it functions as a rotary second-class lever. The motion of the lever's end-point describes a fixed orbit, where mechanical energy can be exchanged. (see a hand-crank as an example.) In modern times, this kind of rotary leverage is widely used; see a (rotary) 2nd-class lever; see gears, pulleys or friction ...
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English: Labeled diagrams of various parts of the human body in relation the the lever classifications exemplified by the joint (neck, foot, and arm). Credit to Anatomography, Cervical Vertebrae. CC BY-AS 2.1 JP.
Engraving from an 1824 mechanics magazine illustrating Archimedes's statement that given a place to stand, with a lever a person could move the Earth. The idea of a simple machine originated with the Greek philosopher Archimedes around the 3rd century BC, who studied the Archimedean simple machines: lever, pulley, and screw.