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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
self-absorbed forum
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
copper genital piercing area
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
self-absorbed forum
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
copper genital piercing area
  11/22/25
(witch)
light pontificating roommate
  11/22/25
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self-absorbed forum
  11/22/25
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  11/22/25
You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics ...
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  11/23/25
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aquamarine abode
  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
self-absorbed forum
  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
Underhanded hyperventilating alpha
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
Underhanded hyperventilating alpha
  11/22/25
It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
dark den
  11/22/25
He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
maroon bawdyhouse double fault
  11/22/25
?
dark den
  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
self-absorbed forum
  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
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ljl
orange laser beams
  11/23/25
A fixed pulley has no effect on force
maroon bawdyhouse double fault
  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
self-absorbed forum
  11/22/25
Interesting typo
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copper genital piercing area
  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
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  11/22/25
ooooh, i love knots too
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offensive home
  11/23/25
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self-absorbed forum
  11/23/25
Did you not take a Physics course in college?
Bistre Dashing Mood
  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
Salmon Provocative Fanboi Gaming Laptop
  11/22/25
They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are ...
Lime charismatic spot
  11/23/25
A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
vivacious at-the-ready state dingle berry
  11/22/25
I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old je...
know-it-all half-breed
  11/22/25
Gets good around 13:30 https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7...
know-it-all half-breed
  11/22/25
Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted...
Exciting cheese-eating lodge faggotry
  11/22/25
Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
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offensive home
  11/23/25
this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
aquamarine abode
  11/22/25
Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near ...
dark den
  11/23/25
Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: self-absorbed forum

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: copper genital piercing area

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: self-absorbed forum

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: copper genital piercing area

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: light pontificating roommate

(witch)

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: self-absorbed forum



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: Salmon Provocative Fanboi Gaming Laptop



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: adventurous school preventive strike

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: maniacal floppy stead voyeur



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: aquamarine abode



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: self-absorbed forum

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: Underhanded hyperventilating alpha

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: Underhanded hyperventilating alpha

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: dark den

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: maroon bawdyhouse double fault

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: dark den

?

(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: self-absorbed forum

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: Salmon Provocative Fanboi Gaming Laptop

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: orange laser beams

ljl

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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: maroon bawdyhouse double fault

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: self-absorbed forum

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: maroon bawdyhouse double fault

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: copper genital piercing area



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: Salmon Provocative Fanboi Gaming Laptop

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: Translucent chest-beating hospital travel guidebook

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: offensive home



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: self-absorbed forum



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Bistre Dashing Mood

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: Salmon Provocative Fanboi Gaming Laptop

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: Lime charismatic spot

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: vivacious at-the-ready state dingle berry

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: know-it-all half-breed

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: know-it-all half-breed

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 cheese-eating lodge faggotry

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: Translucent chest-beating hospital travel guidebook

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: offensive home



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: aquamarine abode

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: dark den

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: Contagious bright mad cow disease university

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: self-absorbed forum



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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)