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Pulley system, demonstrating how pulleys facilitate the lifting of heavy weights (2004)
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A gun tackle has a single pulley in both the fixed and moving blocks with 2 rope parts dividing the load of 100N. The mechanical advantage is 2, requiring a force of only 50N to lift the load.
Author: César Rincón
Somewhere between 100-150 N of downward force, depends on the angle that the rope on the left is being pulled at
I don't think it can get as low as 100N, for that you would have to pull completely upwards. The shadow in the image implies a ceiling, so ~112N if we take 90° as the max angle. The 150N would be the only case with a completely downward force, if you pull at another angle the resulting force vector will be angled as well.
Yea that's why I said max down force, didn't want to do the math to find the resultant for a 90 degree to the left pull
Wouldn't it depend on how fast that rope is pulled too, adding in the acceleration of the mass?
Nope. Right now the system is balanced, the rope is not being pulled just hold. To pull the weight up you need more than 50N, plus a bit more if we take into consideration the friction in the pulleys and in the rope itself.