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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
Ivory address
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
contagious spot philosopher-king
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
Ivory address
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
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  11/22/25
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  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
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  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
nubile range
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
nubile range
  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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  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
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  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
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  11/22/25
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  11/23/25
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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  11/22/25
Interesting typo
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  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
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  11/23/25
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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  11/22/25
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Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: Ivory address

Seems like witchcraft to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452778)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: contagious spot philosopher-king

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=2\u0026hid=#49452779)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: Ivory address

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452784)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM
Author: contagious spot philosopher-king

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=2\u0026hid=#49452810)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Talking Hell

(witch)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452815)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: Ivory address



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: chrome hideous university love of her life



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Charismatic wild toilet seat

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49453151)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: pink bisexual forum



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Big Space Immigrant



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Ivory address

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=2\u0026hid=#49452818)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: nubile range

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=2\u0026hid=#49452851)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM
Author: nubile range

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=2\u0026hid=#49453187)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM
Author: Tripping gay wizard

It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452855)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:39 PM
Author: cerebral parlor

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=2\u0026hid=#49452864)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: Tripping gay wizard

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452899)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: Ivory address

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=2\u0026hid=#49452921)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:22 PM
Author: chrome hideous university love of her life

it's because you're trading distance for force

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452950)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: sickened spectacular rigor messiness

ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49454445)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: cerebral parlor

A fixed pulley has no effect on force

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452968)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:03 PM
Author: Ivory address

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=2\u0026hid=#49452927)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: cerebral parlor

Interesting typo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452972)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:26 AM
Author: contagious spot philosopher-king



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49453345)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: chrome hideous university love of her life

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=2\u0026hid=#49452982)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: cream appetizing stage corn cake

ooooh, i love knots too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49453183)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM
Author: Slippery flesh theatre stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49453347)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Ivory address



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: mind-boggling misunderstood hairy legs round eye

Did you not take a Physics course in college?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49452988)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: chrome hideous university love of her life

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=2\u0026hid=#49453016)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:41 PM
Author: Canary anal athletic conference locale

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=2\u0026hid=#49454477)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: arousing abnormal legend gaming laptop

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=2\u0026hid=#49453007)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: Aqua resort

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=2\u0026hid=#49453020)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: Aqua resort

Gets good around 13:30

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49453127)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: low-t titillating new version

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49453130)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: cream appetizing stage corn cake

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=2\u0026hid=#49453176)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:29 AM
Author: Slippery flesh theatre stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49453346)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: Big Space Immigrant

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=2\u0026hid=#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: Tripping gay wizard

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=2\u0026hid=#49453294)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:43 PM
Author: Passionate avocado alpha halford

Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49454483)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 3:58 AM
Author: Ivory address



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49455393)



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Date: December 24th, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: Alluring sisters in law of yesteryear (πŸΎπŸ‘£)



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