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Template:WP1.0 Bold text How are inclined planes useful?Read below

From the article:

"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.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

No cites, or copy+pasting

This entire article has been copied and pasted from this site: http://www.weirdrichard.com/inclined.htm

Surely someone had just pasted it on without citing it... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.116.163.147 (talk) 22:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

[incorrect mechanical advantage statement]

before I changed it, the article read that the IMA of an inclined plane can also be expressed as the sine of the angle between the slope and horizontal plane. This is wrong, because the IMA is the hypoteneuse over the height, not the other way around.

I have changed it to read the ratio of 1 to the sine of that angle described above to make it correct

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 Surely someone had just pasted it on without citing it... <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/74.116.163.147|74.116.163.147]] ([[User talk:74.116.163.147|talk]]) 22:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->
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 before I changed it, the article read that the IMA of an inclined plane can also be expressed as the sine of the angle between the slope and horizontal plane. This is wrong, because the IMA is the hypoteneuse over the height, not the other way around.