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Diagram showing a Second Class Lever: Date: 10 July 2006: Source: SVG conversion of Image:LeverSecondClass.png: Author: Iainf 21:31, 9 July 2006 (UTC) Permission (Reusing this file) GFDL: Other versions: Image:LeverSecondClass.png
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.
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 ...
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.
A crowbar with a curved chisel end to provide a fulcrum for leverage and a goose neck to pull nails. A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially gooseneck, or pig bar, or in Australia a jemmy, [1] is a lever consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, used to force two objects apart or ...
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 ...
Oars are levers. Which class of lever depends on the frame of reference. From the rower's perspective, the oar can be seen as a Class I lever. The oar is fixed in the oarlock, the rower pulls on the handle, and the blade moves in the opposite direction to propel the boat. The blade is further from the oarlock than the rower's hands.
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.