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Can anyone really explain how pulleys work? I mean not in theoretical terms

Seems like witchcraft to me.
Hyperventilating messiness piazza
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
Fuchsia round eye pit
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
Hyperventilating messiness piazza
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
Fuchsia round eye pit
  11/22/25
(witch)
Balding double fault stead
  11/22/25
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Hyperventilating messiness piazza
  11/22/25
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Seedy duck-like feces
  11/22/25
You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics ...
Floppy sable jew roast beef
  11/22/25
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Alcoholic Lake Center Voyeur
  11/23/25
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Jet-lagged Crystalline Office
  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
Hyperventilating messiness piazza
  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
shaky ape
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
shaky ape
  11/22/25
It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
Excitant clown cumskin
  11/22/25
He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
Olive parlor coldplay fan
  11/22/25
?
Excitant clown cumskin
  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
Hyperventilating messiness piazza
  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
Seedy duck-like feces
  11/22/25
ljl
Low-t dashing church police squad
  11/23/25
A fixed pulley has no effect on force
Olive parlor coldplay fan
  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
Hyperventilating messiness piazza
  11/22/25
Interesting typo
Olive parlor coldplay fan
  11/22/25
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Fuchsia round eye pit
  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
Seedy duck-like feces
  11/22/25
ooooh, i love knots too
stimulating property faggotry
  11/22/25
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Pontificating beady-eyed degenerate crackhouse
  11/23/25
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Hyperventilating messiness piazza
  11/23/25
Did you not take a Physics course in college?
Hateful garrison
  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
Seedy duck-like feces
  11/22/25
They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are ...
Galvanic Azn
  11/23/25
A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
Ungodly theater stage immigrant
  11/22/25
I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old je...
Emerald irradiated dilemma fortuitous meteor
  11/22/25
Gets good around 13:30 https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7...
Emerald irradiated dilemma fortuitous meteor
  11/22/25
Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted...
Snowy haunting love of her life
  11/22/25
Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
stimulating property faggotry
  11/22/25
...
Pontificating beady-eyed degenerate crackhouse
  11/23/25
this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
Jet-lagged Crystalline Office
  11/22/25
Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near ...
Excitant clown cumskin
  11/23/25
Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
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  11/24/25


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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza

Seems like witchcraft to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452778)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: Fuchsia round eye pit

Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are just that, simple.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452779)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza

Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable Knowed One!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452784)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM
Author: Fuchsia round eye pit

Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and change the direction of a force, making it easier to lift heavy objects. A single, fixed pulley can change the direction of force, while a system of multiple pulleys (called a block-and-tackle) provides mechanical advantage by distributing the weight across more ropes, requiring less force to lift the load, but over a longer distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452810)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Balding double fault stead

(witch)

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: Seedy duck-like feces



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Floppy sable jew roast beef

You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics chief

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453151)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: Alcoholic Lake Center Voyeur



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Jet-lagged Crystalline Office



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza

Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity by transferring the load from up to down?

But then why does the effort required to lift the load decrease with every additional pulley system?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452818)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: shaky ape

cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would “unreverse” the gravity, thereby rendering it useless. kind of like a “double negative” for the wordcels out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452851)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM
Author: shaky ape

after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. a dual-pulley system would have the second pulley upside-down, thus reversing the gravity twofold. in this system, the rope isn’t used to exert force but rather to keep the load from floating away.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453187)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM
Author: Excitant clown cumskin

It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452855)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:39 PM
Author: Olive parlor coldplay fan

He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP is genuinely wondering why a rope on a wheel moves when you pull it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452864)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: Excitant clown cumskin

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452899)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza

Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley working involves a demonstration of a pulley working?

That’s not by accident.

How do they work!?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452921)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:22 PM
Author: Seedy duck-like feces

it's because you're trading distance for force

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452950)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: Low-t dashing church police squad

ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49454445)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: Olive parlor coldplay fan

A fixed pulley has no effect on force

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452968)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:03 PM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza

Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspired us by showing through one of the profits that this is a pulley?

And if that happened millennia ago, is it still happening now? Are today’s rich and famous really prophets chosen by God? Will Elon Musk and Sam Altman lead us to Nirvana?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452927)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: Olive parlor coldplay fan

Interesting typo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452972)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:26 AM
Author: Fuchsia round eye pit



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: Seedy duck-like feces

you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and learn this shit

you should also buy some rope and learn some knots. this is my favorite knot that I use multiple times per week: https://www.animatedknots.com/tumble-hitch-knot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452982)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: stimulating property faggotry

ooooh, i love knots too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453183)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM
Author: Pontificating beady-eyed degenerate crackhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453347)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49454537)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Hateful garrison

Did you not take a Physics course in college?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452988)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: Seedy duck-like feces

I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got assigned to the Hot Girl's group (there was only one in a class of 200). I took care of all the work in the class and wound up dating her for a year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453016)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:41 PM
Author: Galvanic Azn

They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are trying to keep us away from the Secret Truth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49454477)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: Ungodly theater stage immigrant

A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using centripetal force. (Or maybe it's centrifugal force. Pretty sure it's one of those.)

If you get really deep into the physics, the mass of the pully actually exerts a geometrodynamical force that acts upon the field containing the rope.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453007)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: Emerald irradiated dilemma fortuitous meteor

I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old jeep, and when he sprayed lube into the stuck alternator he also sprayed it all over the belt. Intuitively I thought that was a mistake. Seems like you'd want more friction there between the belt and the pulley

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453020)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: Emerald irradiated dilemma fortuitous meteor

Gets good around 13:30

https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7ddMQQQF43ptR5H

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453127)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Snowy haunting love of her life

Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted his attention.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453130)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: stimulating property faggotry

Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a couple pulleys together, it confuses the gravity molecules and they stop pushing down on the object you are trying to move, hence, the object stops feeling heavy and you can build things with large blocks such as pyramids, and also places like Nan Madol. The more pulleys you place together, the more confused the molecules becomes, its rather simple akshully

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453176)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:29 AM
Author: Pontificating beady-eyed degenerate crackhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453346)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: Jet-lagged Crystalline Office

this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just the same, i am confident that oldhlsdude could explain this at a level that is higher than average board understanding

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: Excitant clown cumskin

Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near so as a result that’s not hard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453294)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:43 PM
Author: aquamarine university

Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49454483)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 3:58 AM
Author: Hyperventilating messiness piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49455393)