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How does pulley work especially in a pulley system?

Mar 09, 2008 by angela kate d | Posted in Physics

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Work done is a force times the distance the point of application of the force has moved. A pulley enables the point of application of the force to move through a larger distance (twice in the case of a simple pulley) so the force required to do a given

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How Pulleys Work

A example of a simple pulley system and how it works.

how does a pulley work - Bookshelf


How Things Work
127 pages 		How Things Work

Creator: Neil Ardley, Bob Bampton | Science - 1988
T HOW DO PULLEYS WORK? You can lift very heavy loads with a pulley. You pull on the rope, and the pulley wheels go around. The pulley is fixed to the ...
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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