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When hammering a nail a person uses the wrist muscle, triceps muscle, bicep muscle and hand muscles which are called extrinsic, thinner eminence and intrinsic muscles.

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How is energy used when you use a hammer?

When you use a hammer, the energy from your arm muscles is transferred to the hammer, which then transfers the energy to the nail or object being hammered. The kinetic energy of the hammer hitting the nail causes it to be driven into the surface, allowing you to complete the task.


What is used to drive a nail?

A hammer is used to drive a nail into a surface. It provides the force needed to push the nail into the material.


Is the hammer a lever?

Depending on what you are using the hammer for. If the hammer is been used to pull up a nail then yes but if its been used to hammer in a nail then no. For something to be a lever it must have a fulcrum which the curve on the hammer works as as you try to pull out a nail.


What are the uses of claw hammer?

The claw hammer can not only hammer a nail into wood but can , by way of the claw , grasp the head of the nail and be used to pry/leverage the nail from wood .


What type of simple machine of removing nail with hammer?

The simple machine used for removing a nail with a hammer is a lever. The hammer acts as the effort force, while the nail acts as the load. The fulcrum point is where the hammer applies force on the nail to remove it.


What part of the hammer acts as the hammer acts as the fulcrum when the hammer is used to remove nail?

When a hammer is used to remove a nail, the part that acts as the fulcrum is the curved claw of the hammer, which pivots against the surface of the material (like wood) where the nail is embedded. As the hammer is lifted, the nail is pulled out from the opposite end, leveraging the claw's position to exert force on the nail. This lever action allows for efficient removal with minimal effort.


How is a hammer a leaver?

A claw hammer is a lever when it is being used to pull a nail out.


What minerals are in hammer and nail?

Steel is used to form both hammer and nails.


What is a iron nail?

An iron nail is an object used to hammer things in with, boof, or boof boof


Is a nail iron?

An iron nail is an object used to hammer things in with, boof, or boof boof


A tool that should be used with the hammer when driving a nail below the surface of the wood is called a?

Nail punch.


How does a hammer used to pull a nail from the board change the direction of the force?

It is a lever.