screw
Threads advance the screw along its axis. This topic is part of Simple Machines within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 8 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
screw trivia questions
A screw is basically what simple machine wrapped around a cylinder?
Answer: Inclined plane
Bonus fact: Threads convert rotational motion into linear motion.
What does a finer screw thread generally increase?
Answer: Mechanical advantage
Bonus fact: Smaller thread pitch requires more turns but less force.
A screw converts rotational motion into what kind of motion?
Answer: Linear motion
Bonus fact: Threads advance the screw along its axis.
What term describes the distance from one thread crest to the next on a screw or bolt?
Answer: Pitch
Bonus fact: Thread pitch is the axial distance between corresponding points on adjacent threads.
Who wrote The Turn of the Screw?
Answer: Henry James
Bonus fact: 1898 novella by Henry James.
What is the occupation of the unnamed narrator in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw?
Answer: Governess
Bonus fact: Project Gutenberg classifies the work as both psychological fiction and a ghost story.
How many classical simple machines are commonly taught?
Answer: Six
Bonus fact: They are lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.
Which two simple machines are closely related because one is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder?
Answer: Screw and inclined plane
Bonus fact: The thread of a screw is a helical inclined plane.