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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
alcoholic house queen of the night
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
alcoholic house queen of the night
  11/22/25
(witch)
drunken cordovan temple psychic
  11/22/25
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Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/22/25
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Elite karate office
  11/22/25
You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics ...
Adventurous trailer park
  11/22/25
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flickering well-lubricated ticket booth haunted graveyard
  11/23/25
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Angry diverse immigrant
  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
Contagious market athletic conference
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
Contagious market athletic conference
  11/22/25
It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
Cerise rough-skinned senate friendly grandma
  11/22/25
He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
Dun Balding Idiot
  11/22/25
?
Cerise rough-skinned senate friendly grandma
  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
Elite karate office
  11/22/25
ljl
soggy vigorous yarmulke
  11/23/25
A fixed pulley has no effect on force
Dun Balding Idiot
  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/22/25
Interesting typo
Dun Balding Idiot
  11/22/25
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alcoholic house queen of the night
  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
Elite karate office
  11/22/25
ooooh, i love knots too
Thriller pit therapy
  11/22/25
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180 amber affirmative action
  11/23/25
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Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/23/25
Did you not take a Physics course in college?
Duck-like Alcoholic University
  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
Elite karate office
  11/22/25
They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are ...
galvanic cuck
  11/23/25
A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
plum international law enforcement agency
  11/22/25
I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old je...
Emerald rambunctious ceo brethren
  11/22/25
Gets good around 13:30 https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7...
Emerald rambunctious ceo brethren
  11/22/25
Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted...
Flirting startled tanning salon crotch
  11/22/25
Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
Thriller pit therapy
  11/22/25
...
180 amber affirmative action
  11/23/25
this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
Angry diverse immigrant
  11/22/25
Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near ...
Cerise rough-skinned senate friendly grandma
  11/23/25
Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
Boyish nursing home
  11/23/25
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Autistic odious abode hominid
  11/24/25
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Alluring sisters in law of yesteryear
  12/24/25


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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: Autistic odious abode hominid

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: alcoholic house queen of the night

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: Autistic odious abode hominid

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: alcoholic house queen of the night

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: drunken cordovan temple psychic

(witch)

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: Autistic odious abode hominid



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452823)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: Elite karate office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49452948)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Adventurous trailer park

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: flickering well-lubricated ticket booth haunted graveyard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453220)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Angry diverse immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2).#49453167)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Autistic odious abode hominid

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: Contagious market athletic conference

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: Contagious market athletic conference

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: Cerise rough-skinned senate friendly grandma

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: Dun Balding Idiot

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: Cerise rough-skinned senate friendly grandma

?

(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: Autistic odious abode hominid

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: Elite karate office

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: soggy vigorous yarmulke

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: Dun Balding Idiot

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: Autistic odious abode hominid

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: Dun Balding Idiot

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: alcoholic house queen of the night



(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: Elite karate office

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: Thriller pit therapy

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: 180 amber affirmative action



(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: Autistic odious abode hominid



(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: Duck-like Alcoholic University

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: Elite karate office

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: galvanic cuck

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: plum international law enforcement agency

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: Emerald rambunctious ceo brethren

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: Emerald rambunctious ceo brethren

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: Flirting startled tanning salon crotch

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: Thriller pit therapy

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: 180 amber affirmative action



(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: Angry diverse 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).#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: Cerise rough-skinned senate friendly grandma

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: Boyish nursing home

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: Autistic odious abode hominid



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



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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)