To maintain the gloss and beauty of this type of tile, you need to clean, sweep and mop the floor daily. 4. Porcelain tiles share a lot of the positive characteristics of ceramic kitchen floor tiles. Furthermore, this kind of tile is quite durable and scratch resistant.
fulcrum â(plural fulcrums or fulcra). ( 1 mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots. 2  It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum.
Learning Goals. 1  Fulcrum: the pivot point of a lever. 2  Effort: the force applied to a lever. 3  Resistive force, load or resistance: force that resists the motion of the lever. 4  Moment arm: the perpendicular distance from the line of action of the force of the fulcrum. 5  Mechanical advantage: ratio of output force : input force.