Think of a spanner loosening a fixed nut Or a child on a seesaw Or a door opening around a fixed hinge All of these things are connected by something called moments… A moment is the turning force around a fixed pivot. The pivot is the nut, or the middle of the seesaw, or the hinge. We can have one moment acting, which results in a turning force… Or if something is balanced, or in equilibrium, the moments are equal and opposite. To be balanced, this lighter child needs to sit further away from the pivot. And the heavier child needs to be closer. This is because the size of a moment is determined by the force and a distance. So the moments of the lighter person is 500N multiplied by 2m… 1000 newton-metres And the heavier person is 1000 times 1m to also give 1000 newton metres. Did you notice that moments are measured in in newton-metres, Nm Because force is measured in newtons, N and distance in metres. Note that the distance must be the perpendicular distance from the pivot to force. Here’s another example. Can you work out what moments the woman is applying to tighten the wheel nut? Pause the video and work it out. Were you careful to change the 30cm into metres? We can also place this formula into a formula triangle. Force equals moments divided by distance Distance equals moments divided by force And moments, as we already know, is force times distance Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/FuseSchool VISIT us at www.fuseschool.org, where all of our videos are carefully organised into topics and specific orders, and to see what else we have on offer. Comment, like and share with other learners. You can both ask and answer questions, and teachers will get back to you. These videos can be used in a flipped classroom model or as a revision aid. Twitter: https://twitter.com/fuseSchool Access a deeper Learning Experience in the FuseSchool platform and app: www.fuseschool.org This Open Educational Resource is free of charge, under a Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC ( View License Deed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ). You are allowed to download the video for nonprofit, educational use. If you would like to modify the video, please contact us: info@fuseschool.org
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