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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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Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
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Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
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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 ...
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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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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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Interesting typo
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you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
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Did you not take a Physics course in college?
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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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Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo

Seems like witchcraft to me.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: Coral Frisky Old Irish Cottage Shrine

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#49452779)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM
Author: Coral Frisky Old Irish Cottage Shrine

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#49452810)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Provocative area

(witch)

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: maize kitchen patrolman



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: hot indirect expression genital piercing

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

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: Stirring Sepia Stead Trump Supporter



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Dashing hissy fit ticket booth



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo

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#49452818)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: fragrant shaky casino foreskin

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#49452851)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM
Author: fragrant shaky casino foreskin

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#49453187)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM
Author: bright cruise ship roast beef

It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:39 PM
Author: Laughsome Institution

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#49452864)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: bright cruise ship roast beef

?

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo

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#49452921)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:22 PM
Author: maize kitchen patrolman

it's because you're trading distance for force

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: transparent trailer park wrinkle

ljl

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: Laughsome Institution

A fixed pulley has no effect on force

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:03 PM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo

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#49452927)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: Laughsome Institution

Interesting typo

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:26 AM
Author: Coral Frisky Old Irish Cottage Shrine



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: maize kitchen patrolman

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#49452982)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: galvanic useless stage mad cow disease

ooooh, i love knots too

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM
Author: Electric godawful stage



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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2#49454537)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Disturbing Shivering Property Water Buffalo

Did you not take a Physics course in college?

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: maize kitchen patrolman

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#49453016)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:41 PM
Author: Glittery Marketing Idea Principal's Office

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#49454477)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: zippy unhinged nursing home

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#49453007)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: Talented pervert

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#49453020)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: Talented pervert

Gets good around 13:30

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Exciting crystalline skinny woman

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#49453130)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: galvanic useless stage mad cow disease

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#49453176)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:29 AM
Author: Electric godawful stage



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: Dashing hissy fit ticket booth

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#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: bright cruise ship roast beef

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#49453294)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:43 PM
Author: swashbuckling self-absorbed site rigor

Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.

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



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Date: November 24th, 2025 3:58 AM
Author: vibrant insane headpube tattoo



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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2#49538545)