What is a complex machine?

Complex Machines

Many machines combine several simple machines. For example, a wheelbarrow is

a lever with a wheel and axle. A bicycle has wheels and axles, pulleys, and gears.

A can opener uses a wedge, a lever, and a gear. Complex machines make difficult
or dangerous tasks easier. Electric mixers mix batter over and over. Cranes help us
build buildings. Robots build cars and dig through rubble. Each of these machines
combines simple machines to make work easier.

Examples of Complex Machine

Lawn Mower

Although a basic push lawn mower seems complex, a number of the parts on a
lawn mower consist of simple machines.

Wheel and Axel- Perhaps one of the most obvious simple machines in a lawn
mower is the wheel and axle. A wheel and axle consists of a single rod which fits
into the middle of a circle or wheel.
Screw and Inclined Plane- A screw has an even, sloping surface which wraps
around a circular rod. The lawn mower also includes another inclined plane, the
blade.
Pulley- Inside your lawn mower, you'll find a belt drive. The belt drive is a system
of pulleys which keeps the lawn mower functioning when it's on. A pulley is a
simple machine which features a rope or other string-like element wrapped around
one side of a round wheel. When the wheel moves, the rope moves or vice versa.
 Bicycle

Levers: Shifters, crank set (the pedal levers), derailleurs, handlebars, freewheel
assembly, brakes.

Wheel and axel: The wheels, pedals, crank set, cassette

Pulleys: Parts of the shifting mechanisms, braking mechanisms, and the drive train
(chain on gears).

Screws: (Hold parts together).

Wedges: The teeth on the gears. Not common, but some gooseneck assemblies
(where the handlebars attach to the front fork tube) may employ a
wedge to tighten the connection. If you have a repair kit on your bike,
tire levers are also both levers and wedges.
 JOHN VENN

Mathematician John Venn was born in Hull, England, in 1834. A fellow of Caius
College, Cambridge, he developed George Boole's symbolic logic, and in his Logic
of Chance (1866) worked on the frequency theory of probability. He is best known
for Venn diagrams, pictorial representations of the relations between sets that have
become an oft-used tool in the teaching of mathematics and logic, among other
concepts. Venn died in Cambridge in 1923
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In 1866, Venn published The Logic of Chance, a groundbreaking book that
espoused the frequency theory of probability, offering that probability should be
determined by how often something is forecast to occur as opposed to “educated”
assumptions. Venn then further developed mathematician George Boole's theories
in the 1881 work Symbolic Logic, in which he highlighted what would become
known as Venn diagrams.

These graphics were pictorial representations of the relationships between sets,

with similar diagrams having been used by Gottfried Leibniz and Leonhard Euler.
Though quite complex in their orientation and application, Venn diagrams have
become a trademark tool over the years in the teaching of introductory math and
logic, as well as being used by popular media to illustrate relationships between
groups and concepts.

VENN DIAGRAM
 A diagram representing mathematical or logical sets pictorially as
circles or closed curves within an enclosing rectangle (the universal set),
common elements of the sets being represented by intersections of the
circles.