WEEK 11: Lever System

Jenelle Bie, PTRP || March 2023 PHPT211

Miriam Aurea T. Gonzales (2nd year-2nd semester)

Application FIRST CLASS LEVER

- Lever systems can be used to apply the → Seesaw or balance scale
action of the muscles

LEVERS
- A simple machine that consists of a rigid
bar that rotates around an axis.

For balance

2 forces: resistance arm and force arm

3 ELEMENTS OF MECHANICAL LEVERS
1. Axis/ Fulcrum
2. 2 Forces
a. Weight arm/Resistance Arm: Ex: AO joint and Occipital
Perpendicular distance from the RA and FA does not require to have the same
axis to the line of action of the distance from the axis; the axis must be in the
resistance center
b. Effort arm/ Force Arm: MA= 1
Perpendicular distance from the
moving force to the axi

MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE (MA)

→ Ratio between the length of the force arm
and the length of the resistance arm.

→ The higher the quotient ratio, the greater

the MA.

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SECOND CLASS LEVER THIRD CLASS LEVER

→ The point of resistance application lies → Point of force application located between
between the force and the axis. the resistance and the axis.
→ Power → Resistance arm is always longer than the
→ Force arm longer than resistance arm= force arm.
generates more power
MA= >1

→ Speed
→ Most common
→ Shorter Effort Arm
MA= <1

Effort: Muscle UE
Force arm: Body weight
Axis: Feet

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