Force

25 June

Pulley

Rahul Narayan Mehra, IIT Delhi Physics, Force

What is a Pulley? A pulley is a simple machine consisting of a grooved wheel through which a rope runs. The pulley can be thought of as a kind of lever if one thinks of the grooved wheel as the fulcrum of the lever. Then the effort force is the…

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31 May

Newton’s World (Force around us)

achal Physics, Force

Can you imagine a world where nothing ever changes? No one moves. Nothing even stirs. Like a dead, stationary planet. As soon as there is any motion or any sort of action, some force kicks in. Or, to put it the other way, every force in nature results into some…

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