Talk:Inclined plane

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"The inclined plane is used to reduce the force necessary to overcome the force of gravity when elevating or lowering a heavy object. The ramp makes it easier to move a physical body vertically by extending the distance traveled horizontally (run) to achieve the desired elevation change (rise)."

=> This means that if you are not strong enough to lift an object straight up, you can overcome this with a ramp; with a ramp you can lift the object using a smaller force, at the cost of having to lift it a longer distance. I think this article needs some language and explanatory cleanup. Do you think this should be better explained in the article? [[User:Sverdrup|❝Sverdrup❞]] 17:35, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC) This is a very interesting piece and i think that you can learn a lot from it.

[edit] Example problem

I've started cleaning up the example physics problem. I don't have time to do it all now, but I think it needs to be tightened up significantly. flowersofnight (talk) 20:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Audio Recording

(edited)I changed my mind, re-reading this it seems like it needs some more work...It looks like the inclined plane and the wedge have been confused (not that they are all that different anyway).

--Freeflight 08:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)