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pete
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So my last drawing was too confusing so I’ve tried to sketch it as simply as possible to explain. In the first picture a lever in red is prying the two blue parts apart. The Blue parts are fixed.
I’m not too good at all this but as I understand it the arm of the lever is twice as long on the side with the force being applied so the force is doubled, then equal applied to both half's of the blue part.
Given that I’ve understood that correctly then in the second picture the same is happening except that the lever instead of acting on the inside of the blue part is acting on another lever. The first lever is 3 to 1 so that’s 1.5 pushing on the pivot and 1.5 on the next lever and so on.
What I’m asking is do levers work in sequence like this or do you calculate it somehow as one long lever? Or is it all completely wrong?
I’m not too good at all this but as I understand it the arm of the lever is twice as long on the side with the force being applied so the force is doubled, then equal applied to both half's of the blue part.
Given that I’ve understood that correctly then in the second picture the same is happening except that the lever instead of acting on the inside of the blue part is acting on another lever. The first lever is 3 to 1 so that’s 1.5 pushing on the pivot and 1.5 on the next lever and so on.
What I’m asking is do levers work in sequence like this or do you calculate it somehow as one long lever? Or is it all completely wrong?