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"Simple Machines" is the tenth episode in the first season of Bill Nye the Science Guy. It aired on November 12, 1993.

Synopsis[]

Learning about science can be hard work, but simple machines can make it easier. Let Bill Nye push and pull you around ramps, levers, screws, and pulleys. Simple machines simply make work easier by directing forces over distances. Instead of lifting a heavy box upstairs, you can hook it to some ropes and pulleys and pull it up. Or you can get a ramp and slide it upstairs.

Either way, it’s less sweat to use the pulleys or the ramp than it is to lift the box straight up by yourself because the force you need is more spread out. Levers, ramps, screws, wheels, wedges, and pulleys are all simple machines designed to direct forces.

With simple machines we don’t have to push or pull as hard, but we have to push or pull over a longer distance. It’s easier to walk up a long set of stairs to the top of the Empire State Building than it would be to climb a ladder to the top, but the set of stairs would be much longer than the ladder. Simple machines are simply scientific.


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Episodes
Season One: "Flight" • "Earth's Crust" • "Dinosaurs" • "Skin" • "Buoyancy" • "Gravity" • "Digestion" • "Phases of Matter" • "Biodiversity" • "Simple Machines" • "The Moon" • "Sound" • "Garbage" • "Structure" • "Earth's Seasons" • "Light & Color" • "Cells" • "Electrical Current" • "Outer Space" • "Eyeball"

Season Two: "Magnetism" • "Wind" • "Blood and Circulation" • "Chemical Reactions" • "Static Electricity" • "Food Web" • "Light Optics" • "Bones and Muscles" • "Oceanography" • "Heat" • "Insects" • "Balance" • "The Sun" • "Brain" • "Forests" • "Communication" • "Momentum" • "Reptiles" • "Atmosphere" • "Respiration"
Season Three: "The Planets" • "Pressure" • "Plants" • "Rocks and Soil" • "Energy" • "Evolution" • "Water Cycle" • "Friction" • "Germs" • "Climates" • "Waves" • "Ocean Life" • "Mammals" • "Spinning Things" • "Fish" • "Human Transportation" • "Wetlands" • "Birds" • "Populations" • "Animal Locomotion"
Season Four: "Rivers and Streams" • "Nutrition" • "Marine Mammals" • "Earthquakes" • "NTV Top 11 Video Countdown" • "Spiders" • "Pollution Solutions" • "Probability" • "Pseudoscience" • "Flowers" • "Archaeology" • "Deserts" • "Amphibians" • "Volcanoes" • "Invertebrates" • "Heart" • "Inventions" • "Computers" • "Fossils" • "Time"
Season Five: "Forensics" • "Space Exploration" • "Genes" • "Architecture" • "Farming" • "Life Cycles" • "Do-It-Yourself Science" • "Atoms" • "Ocean Exploration" • "Lakes and Ponds" • "Smell" • "Caves" • "Fluids" • "Erosion" • "Comets and Meteors" • "Storms" • "Measurement" • "Patterns" • "Science of music" • "Motion"

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