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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: snowy boltzmann Seems like witchcraft to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49452778) |
Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM Author: exciting disrespectful affirmative action 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=2most#49452779) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM Author: snowy boltzmann Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable Knowed One! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49452784) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM Author: exciting disrespectful affirmative action 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=2most#49452810) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM Author: chestnut incel codepig (witch) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49452815) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM Author: snowy boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49452823) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM Author: Vivacious church building (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49452948) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM Author: Marvelous Rose Stead Hissy Fit You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics chief (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49453151) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM Author: startling garrison knife (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49453220) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM Author: lemon generalized bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49453167) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM Author: snowy boltzmann 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: slippery obsidian base old irish cottage 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=2most#49452851) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM Author: slippery obsidian base old irish cottage 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=2most#49453187) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM Author: Topaz School 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: Impressive titillating pit 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: Topaz School ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49452899) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM Author: snowy boltzmann 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: Vivacious church building 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: beady-eyed chartreuse idea he suggested ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49454445) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM Author: Impressive titillating pit 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: snowy boltzmann 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: Impressive titillating pit 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: exciting disrespectful affirmative action (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49453345) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM Author: Vivacious church building 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: canary hall striped hyena ooooh, i love knots too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49453183) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM Author: stimulating place of business (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49453347) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM Author: snowy boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49454537) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM Author: Poppy arousing locus hominid 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: Vivacious church building 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: Comical chest-beating halford trailer park 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: Swashbuckling sandwich 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: Pale contagious cruise ship double fault 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: Pale contagious cruise ship double fault Gets good around 13:30
https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7ddMQQQF43ptR5H |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM Author: diverse stage 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: canary hall striped hyena 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: stimulating place of business (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49453346) |
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM Author: lemon generalized bond 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: Topaz School 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: high-end black woman 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: snowy boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49455393) |
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Date: December 24th, 2025 11:34 PM Author: Alluring sisters in law of yesteryear (πΎπ£) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2most#49538545) |