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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
irradiated coldplay fan hissy fit
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
irradiated coldplay fan hissy fit
  11/22/25
(witch)
crystalline marvelous telephone
  11/22/25
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Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon
  11/22/25
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plum 180 theatre partner
  11/22/25
You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics ...
Exciting Arrogant Toaster
  11/22/25
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soul-stirring lavender internal respiration
  11/23/25
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Fear-inspiring codepig faggotry
  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon
  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
self-absorbed geriatric house people who are hurt
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
self-absorbed geriatric house people who are hurt
  11/22/25
It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
Mauve insanely creepy nursing home degenerate
  11/22/25
He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
Bipolar fishy alpha turdskin
  11/22/25
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Mauve insanely creepy nursing home degenerate
  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon
  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
plum 180 theatre partner
  11/22/25
ljl
Cracking sickened den puppy
  11/23/25
A fixed pulley has no effect on force
Bipolar fishy alpha turdskin
  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon
  11/22/25
Interesting typo
Bipolar fishy alpha turdskin
  11/22/25
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irradiated coldplay fan hissy fit
  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
plum 180 theatre partner
  11/22/25
ooooh, i love knots too
bright legal warrant school cafeteria
  11/22/25
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ruby famous landscape painting plaza
  11/23/25
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Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon
  11/23/25
Did you not take a Physics course in college?
Trip maroon sandwich
  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
plum 180 theatre partner
  11/22/25
They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are ...
disrespectful smoky volcanic crater garrison
  11/23/25
A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
Emerald charismatic spot
  11/22/25
I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old je...
Exhilarant Amber Cuckoldry
  11/22/25
Gets good around 13:30 https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7...
Exhilarant Amber Cuckoldry
  11/22/25
Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted...
Slap-happy Carnelian School
  11/22/25
Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
bright legal warrant school cafeteria
  11/22/25
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ruby famous landscape painting plaza
  11/23/25
this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
Fear-inspiring codepig faggotry
  11/22/25
Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near ...
Mauve insanely creepy nursing home degenerate
  11/23/25
Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon

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: irradiated coldplay fan hissy fit

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: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon

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: irradiated coldplay fan hissy fit

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: crystalline marvelous telephone

(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: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon



(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: plum 180 theatre partner



(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: Exciting Arrogant Toaster

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: soul-stirring lavender internal respiration



(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: Fear-inspiring codepig faggotry



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon

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: self-absorbed geriatric house people who are hurt

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: self-absorbed geriatric house people who are hurt

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: Mauve insanely creepy nursing home degenerate

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: Bipolar fishy alpha turdskin

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: Mauve insanely creepy nursing home degenerate

?

(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: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon

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: plum 180 theatre partner

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: Cracking sickened den puppy

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: Bipolar fishy alpha turdskin

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: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon

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: Bipolar fishy alpha turdskin

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: irradiated coldplay fan hissy fit



(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: plum 180 theatre partner

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: bright legal warrant school cafeteria

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: ruby famous landscape painting plaza



(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: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon



(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: Trip maroon sandwich

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: plum 180 theatre partner

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: disrespectful smoky volcanic crater garrison

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: Emerald charismatic spot

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: Exhilarant Amber Cuckoldry

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: Exhilarant Amber Cuckoldry

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: Slap-happy Carnelian School

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: bright legal warrant school cafeteria

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: ruby famous landscape painting plaza



(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: Fear-inspiring codepig faggotry

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: Mauve insanely creepy nursing home degenerate

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: Impressive karate

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: Ivory Aphrodisiac Boistinker Tanning Salon



(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)