Sentence examples for mechanical advantage in from inspiring English sources

The plane offers a mechanical advantage in that the force required to move an object up the incline is less than the weight being raised (discounting friction).

The snout's shape, resembling a double wedge, gives it a significant mechanical advantage in generating a large moment, so makes it efficient for digging to reach prey or to build a shelter.

Variable resistance is irrelevant because the device provides the surgeon with a greater than 5 1 mechanical advantage in depressing the plunger.

Finally, our constructs were composed of plates placed in the locking configuration, which may only provide a mechanical advantage in osteoporotic bone.

Paradoxically, the dynamic increase in EELV may result in a mechanical advantage in obese subjects while exercising, since tidal volume shifts to the more compliant portion of the pressure-volume relation of the respiratory system [ 6].

Thus, our findings suggest that patients with single-radius prostheses will have a mechanical advantage in knee extension compared to those with multiple-radius designs, especially regarding higher degrees of knee flexion due to the physiological quadriceps forces needed to extend the knee.

The.022 inch system has mechanical advantages in some clinical situations, such as during sliding mechanics when a.019 ×.025" SS archwire is used, nevertheless,.018 inch system seems to be superior in the amount of the couple it is able to express, when a.017×.025" SS archwire is engaged [10].

Plasticity may thus change the pattern of integration among modules in an adaptively favourable way when facing new functional demands, while the reduction in mechanical advantage seen in the soft food eaters appears to be maladaptive.

This curiosity led him to a study of the flight of birds, the movement of water, the features of the land, the mechanical advantage obtainable in gears and gear trains, the growth of plants, the anatomy of man, and many other things.

Our data also suggest that scaling of effective mechanical advantage may occur in felid elbows due to the relative distal drift of the ulna's trochlear notch, which increases the olecranon lever arm with increasing animal size.

However, muscle forces at the hip remained similar in BKBH and extended limb walking, suggesting that anatomical adaptations for hip extension in humans do not necessarily diminish the effective mechanical advantage at the hip in more flexed postures.