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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
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It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
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He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
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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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Did you not take a Physics course in college?
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: translucent knife casino

Seems like witchcraft to me.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: costumed primrose legal warrant menage

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

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: translucent knife casino

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

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM
Author: costumed primrose legal warrant menage

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: cerebral opaque locus toilet seat

(witch)

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: translucent knife casino



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Bateful Pocket Flask Location

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

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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: Anal Very Tactful Step-uncle's House Mental Disorder



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: translucent knife casino

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: clear trust fund locale

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.

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM
Author: clear trust fund locale

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.

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM
Author: Umber Hyperventilating Twinkling Uncleanness Cruise Ship

It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:39 PM
Author: Nofapping Dopamine Spot

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=2most#49452864)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: Umber Hyperventilating Twinkling Uncleanness Cruise Ship

?

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: translucent knife casino

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: excitant market corn cake

it's because you're trading distance for force

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: slimy state sweet tailpipe

ljl

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: Nofapping Dopamine Spot

A fixed pulley has no effect on force

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:03 PM
Author: translucent knife casino

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=2most#49452927)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: Nofapping Dopamine Spot

Interesting typo

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:26 AM
Author: costumed primrose legal warrant menage



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: excitant market corn cake

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=2most#49452982)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: talented foreskin

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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM
Author: Exhilarant Walnut Public Bath



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: translucent knife casino



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Maize overrated business firm

Did you not take a Physics course in college?

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: excitant market corn cake

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=2most#49453016)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:41 PM
Author: Motley school kitty

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=2most#49454477)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: vivacious antidepressant drug ticket booth

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=2most#49453007)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: Stirring Dysfunction

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=2most#49453020)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: Stirring Dysfunction

Gets good around 13:30

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Dun hairraiser school cafeteria

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: talented foreskin

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=2most#49453176)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:29 AM
Author: Exhilarant Walnut Public Bath



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: blue racy crackhouse

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=2most#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: Umber Hyperventilating Twinkling Uncleanness Cruise Ship

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=2most#49453294)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:43 PM
Author: frozen tanning salon

Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.

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



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Date: November 24th, 2025 3:58 AM
Author: black abyss (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)



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