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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
bateful state digit ratio
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
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  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
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  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
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cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
Electric pontificating love of her life twinkling uncleanness
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
Electric pontificating love of her life twinkling uncleanness
  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...
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  11/22/25
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Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
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it's because you're trading distance for force
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A fixed pulley has no effect on force
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  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
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Interesting typo
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Did you not take a Physics course in college?
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  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
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  11/22/25
They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are ...
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A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
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Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
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this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
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  11/23/25
Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: bateful state digit ratio

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: outnumbered site headpube

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: bateful state digit ratio

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: outnumbered site headpube

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.

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Canary box office

(witch)

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: bateful state digit ratio



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: lime vigorous business firm gay wizard



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: chestnut fantasy-prone scourge upon the earth

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: Spectacular yapping stock car



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: exciting telephone locus



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: bateful state digit ratio

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: Electric pontificating love of her life twinkling uncleanness

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: Electric pontificating love of her life twinkling uncleanness

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: Charismatic Abode Cuckoldry

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: Hairless Self-centered Wrinkle Clown

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: Charismatic Abode Cuckoldry

?

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: bateful state digit ratio

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: lime vigorous business firm gay wizard

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: Contagious Umber School Cafeteria

ljl

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: Hairless Self-centered Wrinkle Clown

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: bateful state digit ratio

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: Hairless Self-centered Wrinkle Clown

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: outnumbered site headpube



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: lime vigorous business firm gay wizard

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: exhilarant indigo meetinghouse dog poop

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: Fighting brunch



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: bateful state digit ratio



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Pea-brained Base Dingle Berry

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: lime vigorous business firm gay wizard

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: startled wagecucks

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: Drab stirring hall

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: ruby elite associate theater stage

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: ruby elite associate theater stage

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: racy location

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: exhilarant indigo meetinghouse dog poop

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: Fighting brunch



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: exciting telephone locus

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: Charismatic Abode Cuckoldry

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: appetizing shitlib center

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: bateful state digit ratio



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