Worksheet: Mechanical Advantage

Instructions: Solve the following problems related to mechanical advantage. Show your work
and provide the final answers. Use the formulas and concepts of mechanical advantage to
solve each problem.

1. A lever has an effort arm of 1 meter and a load arm of 4 meters. What is the
mechanical advantage of the lever?

2. A pulley system has 6 supporting strands. If the effort force is 100 Newtons, and the
load force is 600 Newtons, what is the mechanical advantage of the pulley system?

3. A ramp has a length of 6 meters and a height of 2 meters. Calculate the mechanical
advantage of the ramp.

4. A screw jack has a pitch of 4 millimetres and a lever arm length of 40 centimetres.
Determine the mechanical advantage of the screw jack.

5. A wheel and axle system has a radius of 10 centimetres for the wheel and 2
centimetres for the axle. Calculate the mechanical advantage of the system.

6. A block and tackle system has 4 supporting strands. If the effort force is 50 Newtons,
and the load force is 400 Newtons, what is the mechanical advantage of the block and
tackle system?

7. A hydraulic system has an input piston with a radius of 4 centimetres and an output
piston with a radius of 10 centimetres. Determine the mechanical advantage of the
hydraulic system.

8. A single fixed pulley is used to lift a load of 500 Newtons. What is the mechanical
advantage of the pulley?

9. A wedge is used to split a log. If the effort force applied is 1000 Newtons, and the
load force exerted by the wedge is 8000 Newtons, what is the mechanical advantage
of the wedge?

10. A gear system has a driver gear with 20 teeth and a driven gear with 40 teeth.
Calculate the mechanical advantage of the gear system.