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Simple Machines Course

Simple Machines Course
4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country

What will I learn?

This course provides practical skills to design and assess levers, pulleys, and block-and-tackle systems confidently. Review statics, torque, friction, work, and energy, applying them through calculations, safety factors, and examples. Learn to develop safe layouts, choose materials, factor in efficiency losses, and produce clear operating and maintenance instructions.

Elevify advantages

Develop skills

  • Design lever systems: compute mechanical advantage, select geometry, and size for 200 kg loads.
  • Engineer pulley and block-and-tackle rigs: set mechanical advantage and effort limits for 80 kg lifts.
  • Apply friction, efficiency, and safety factors to real workshop lifting designs.
  • Perform fast statics and torque calculations for simple machine optimisation.
  • Create clear, safe operating guides and diagrams for non-expert workshop users.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

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