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Can anyone really explain how pulleys work? I mean not in theoretical terms
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM Author: Turquoise milk Seems like witchcraft to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49452778) |
Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM Author: Twisted Space 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: Turquoise milk 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: Twisted Space 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: Shaky Office Preventive Strike (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: Turquoise milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49452823) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM Author: Concupiscible Senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49452948) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM Author: diverse frum temple 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: Garnet bateful business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49453220) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM Author: comical hyperactive idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49453167) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM Author: Turquoise milk 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? |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:33 PM Author: wonderful rebellious institution 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: wonderful rebellious institution 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: Avocado lay 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: Topaz Fanboi 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: Avocado lay ? (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: Turquoise milk 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!? |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:22 PM Author: Concupiscible Senate 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: yapping salmon therapy 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: Topaz Fanboi 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: Turquoise milk 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? |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM Author: Topaz Fanboi 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: Twisted Space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49453345) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM Author: Concupiscible Senate 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 |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM Author: 180 carmine pozpig 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: grizzly clown (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: Turquoise milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49454537) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM Author: bipolar nursing home queen of the night 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: Concupiscible Senate 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: Galvanic point french chef 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: Pearl provocative community account university 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. |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM Author: Submissive new version 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: Submissive new version Gets good around 13:30
https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7ddMQQQF43ptR5H |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM Author: white base 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: 180 carmine pozpig 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: grizzly clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49453346) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM Author: comical hyperactive idiot 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: Avocado lay 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: Adventurous Property 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: Turquoise milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2Ã#49455393) |