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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
Nubile space pozpig
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
dashing abode
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
Nubile space pozpig
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
dashing abode
  11/22/25
(witch)
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  11/22/25
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Nubile space pozpig
  11/22/25
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  11/22/25
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pearl french chef
  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
Nubile space pozpig
  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
histrionic people who are hurt
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
histrionic people who are hurt
  11/22/25
It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
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  11/22/25
He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
Gaped glittery brunch
  11/22/25
?
talented drunken lay famous landscape painting
  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
Nubile space pozpig
  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
aromatic parlor death wish
  11/22/25
ljl
Topaz Mexican Box Office
  11/23/25
A fixed pulley has no effect on force
Gaped glittery brunch
  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
Nubile space pozpig
  11/22/25
Interesting typo
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  11/22/25
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dashing abode
  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
aromatic parlor death wish
  11/22/25
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  11/22/25
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  11/23/25
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Nubile space pozpig
  11/23/25
Did you not take a Physics course in college?
Razzle Fiercely-loyal Theatre Cumskin
  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
aromatic parlor death wish
  11/22/25
They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are ...
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  11/23/25
A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
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  11/22/25
I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old je...
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Gets good around 13:30 https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7...
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  11/22/25
Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted...
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  11/22/25
Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
Henna sexy trailer park masturbator
  11/22/25
...
swollen emerald institution
  11/23/25
this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
pearl french chef
  11/22/25
Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near ...
talented drunken lay famous landscape painting
  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: Nubile space pozpig

Seems like witchcraft to me.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: dashing abode

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=2Ã#49452779)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: Nubile space pozpig

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM
Author: dashing abode

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=2Ã#49452810)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle fluffy senate

(witch)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49452815)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: Nubile space pozpig



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: aromatic parlor death wish



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Wonderful Painfully Honest Meetinghouse Useless Brakes

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

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: Primrose electric national



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: pearl french chef



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Nubile space pozpig

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=2Ã#49452818)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: histrionic people who are hurt

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=2Ã#49452851)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM
Author: histrionic people who are hurt

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=2Ã#49453187)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM
Author: talented drunken lay famous landscape painting

It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:39 PM
Author: Gaped glittery brunch

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=2Ã#49452864)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: talented drunken lay famous landscape painting

?

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: Nubile space pozpig

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=2Ã#49452921)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:22 PM
Author: aromatic parlor death wish

it's because you're trading distance for force

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: Topaz Mexican Box Office

ljl

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: Gaped glittery brunch

A fixed pulley has no effect on force

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:03 PM
Author: Nubile space pozpig

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=2Ã#49452927)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: Gaped glittery brunch

Interesting typo

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:26 AM
Author: dashing abode



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: aromatic parlor death wish

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=2Ã#49452982)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: Henna sexy trailer park masturbator

ooooh, i love knots too

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM
Author: swollen emerald institution



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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Nubile space pozpig



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Razzle Fiercely-loyal Theatre Cumskin

Did you not take a Physics course in college?

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: aromatic parlor death wish

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=2Ã#49453016)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:41 PM
Author: nudist fantasy-prone tanning salon

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=2Ã#49454477)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: yellow party of the first part

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=2Ã#49453007)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: sienna anal tattoo national security agency

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=2Ã#49453020)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: sienna anal tattoo national security agency

Gets good around 13:30

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: razzmatazz cheese-eating partner

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: Henna sexy trailer park masturbator

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=2Ã#49453176)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:29 AM
Author: swollen emerald institution



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: pearl french chef

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=2Ã#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: talented drunken lay famous landscape painting

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=2Ã#49453294)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:43 PM
Author: garnet toilet seat

Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.

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



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Date: November 24th, 2025 3:58 AM
Author: Nubile space pozpig



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