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wheel and axle
Sign in to savesimple machine which consists of a wheel attached to a smaller axle
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- Subclass of
- simple machine
- Part of
- water well
- Has part
- axle
- Image
- Wheelaxle quackenbos.gif
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- Windlasses
- different from
- windlass
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Encyclopedic overview
The windlass is a well-known application of the wheel and axle.
The wheel and axle is a simple machine, consisting of a wheel attached to a smaller axle so that these two parts rotate together, in which a force is transferred from one to the other. The wheel and axle can be viewed as a version of the lever, with a drive force applied tangentially to the perimeter of the wheel, and a load force applied to the axle supported in a bearing, which serves as a fulcrum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “wheel and axle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.