Machines are used for reducing efforts and doing more work in less time.
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Machines are used because: 1. We can do more work in less time. 2. They alsosignificantly reduce the effort to be applied by us .
Machines reduce the amount of work needed to do a job.
For simplicity and spend of work, we use instruments in which two or more than two simple machines are used.
In the solution to this problem "A machine has a velocity ratio of 4. It is used to raise a load of 200N by 4m using an effort 20kgf. Find the work done on the machine. Take g = 10 m/s2." effort is calculated as 200. Please explain how this was calculated & the formula for this. Also do explain the unit kgf of effort (what does f stand for).