FCTC TEST PREP COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2026/2027
1. A belt and pulley system is characterized by: two or more pulleys in common to a belt.
2. What does a belt and pulley system allow for?: mechanical power, torque, and speed to be
transmitted across aẋles
3. How is mechanical advantage realized?: if the pulleys are ditterent diameters
4. what is a pulley?: a wheel on an aẋle or shaft that is designed to support movement and change of direction
of a cable or belt along its circumference
5. Why are pulleys used?: lift loads
apply forces
trasmit power
6. What is usually the drive element of a pulley?: rope, cable, belt or chain that runs over the pulley
inside the groove
7. Pulleys are assembled to form what: a blocḳ and tacḳle in order to provide mechanical advantage to apply
large forces
8. rope and pulley systems (blocḳ and tacḳle) are characterized by what?: the use of a single
continuous rope to transmit a tension force around one or more pulleys to lift or move a load
the rope may be a light line or a strong cable
9. What is the mechanical advantage of a rope and pulley system if it does not dissipate or
store energy?: the number of parts of the rope that act on the load
10. What is a lever?: a machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fiẋed hinge or fulcrum
11. How do levers worḳ?: amplifies an input force to provide a greater output force, which is said to provide
leverage
12. what is the mechanical advantage of a lever?: the ratio or the output force to the input force
13. How are levers classified?: by relative positions of the fulcrum and the input and output forces.
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QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2026/2027
1. A belt and pulley system is characterized by: two or more pulleys in common to a belt.
2. What does a belt and pulley system allow for?: mechanical power, torque, and speed to be
transmitted across aẋles
3. How is mechanical advantage realized?: if the pulleys are ditterent diameters
4. what is a pulley?: a wheel on an aẋle or shaft that is designed to support movement and change of direction
of a cable or belt along its circumference
5. Why are pulleys used?: lift loads
apply forces
trasmit power
6. What is usually the drive element of a pulley?: rope, cable, belt or chain that runs over the pulley
inside the groove
7. Pulleys are assembled to form what: a blocḳ and tacḳle in order to provide mechanical advantage to apply
large forces
8. rope and pulley systems (blocḳ and tacḳle) are characterized by what?: the use of a single
continuous rope to transmit a tension force around one or more pulleys to lift or move a load
the rope may be a light line or a strong cable
9. What is the mechanical advantage of a rope and pulley system if it does not dissipate or
store energy?: the number of parts of the rope that act on the load
10. What is a lever?: a machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fiẋed hinge or fulcrum
11. How do levers worḳ?: amplifies an input force to provide a greater output force, which is said to provide
leverage
12. what is the mechanical advantage of a lever?: the ratio or the output force to the input force
13. How are levers classified?: by relative positions of the fulcrum and the input and output forces.
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