Graphical Mechanics¹

Exercise 1: Analyse the mechanics involved in these figures: type of movements, forces and momenta, formulae that you would use in each part of the machine, etcetera.

Safety Device For Icy Pavements, Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg machine, taken from http://www.rubegoldberg.com/, visit this website to understand how it works

Simple Idea to Keep You From Forgetting To Mail Your Wife's Letter, Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg machine, taken from http://www.rubegoldberg.com/, visit this website to understand how it works

Pencil Sharpener, Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg machine, taken from http://www.rubegoldberg.com/, visit this website to understand how it works

¹ In fact, it does not exist an area of the Physics with this name. I use these graphics and figures to explain some concepts of the Mechanics.

NOTE: In this website, there are some texts that are mine, as well as others' references or links, all under the right to quote (I contacted http://www.rubegoldberg.com/ at the beginning of 2010).

David Casado de Lucas

Last update: January 2012

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