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5.4 Moments, levers and gears

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Question 7

A technician inspects the brake lever on a theatre scenery winch and writes down four quantities about the lever.

Which quantity should be recorded in newton-metres, N m\text{N m}N m?

[1]
A

the effort applied to the end of the lever

B

the perpendicular distance from the pivot to the effort

C

the moment of the effort about the pivot

D

the weight of the load held by the lever

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