Question

Luisa used a claw hammer to remove nails from a piece of wood she wants to paint. What is the effort distance for a claw hammer if the resistance distance is 6.0 cm and the mechanical advantage is 6.0?
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Answers

GPT-4o mini
To calculate the effort distance for a claw hammer, we can use the formula for mechanical advantage (MA):

\[
\text{MA} = \frac{\text{Resistance Distance}}{\text{Effort Distance}}
\]

We can rearrange this formula to solve for the effort distance:

\[
\text{Effort Distance} = \frac{\text{Resistance Distance}}{\text{MA}}
\]

Given:
- Resistance Distance = 6.0 cm
- Mechanical Advantage = 6.0

Now, plug in the values:

\[
\text{Effort Distance} = \frac{6.0 \text{ cm}}{6.0} = 1.0 \text{ cm}
\]

Now, to find the effort distance in terms of total work done using the mechanical advantage, we can also work from the perspective of total distances.

If the mechanical advantage is 6.0, it means that for every 1.0 cm of effort distance, the hammer can lift 6.0 cm of resistance distance.

The calculated effort distance, when multiplied by the mechanical advantage, gives us the resistance distance:

\[
\text{Effort Distance} \times \text{MA} = \text{Resistance Distance}
\]

So if MA is 6.0:

\[
\text{Effort Distance} \times 6.0 = 6.0 \text{ cm}
\]

And now isolating for Effort Distance gives us:

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