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GCSE Design and Technology · key term
The force or resistance that a mechanism must overcome.
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Paper 1
Revise: Force magnitude and directionThe effort is the applied input force; the load is the force or resistance being overcome. The order of a lever depends on which of these three lies between the other two.
Identify a lever by which part is in the middle: fulcrum, load or effort. Its appearance or orientation does not determine its order.
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