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  • Is the pulley being pulled to the left because of the friction or is it because something else. I don't understand this part 100 % I hope someone point me to right intuition.

  • In 7:23 Why is the pulley is being pulled to the left I don't understand this can someone explain this to me,since he is already pulling to the right it wouldn't make sense. Can someone please explain this to me.

  • Very enjoyable thank you

  • interesting video and very informative

  • I Love The Video What happens when we pull on a pulley and the pulley is pulling on other things It Can Increase My Knowledge

  • Steady I Really Like This Video What happens when we pull on a pulley and the pulley is pulling on other things

  • Man....I need this dude in my brain when taking my tests....SMART! ...and easy to follow! THANNNKSSS :)

  • I need to do more exercise

  • i wish he helped me in spanish cuz my teacher suxxxxxxxx

    n i dont wanna fail

  • at 3:06 it makes perfect sense!

  • XD pull on the pulley !

  • You make physics look like basic algebra, nice job!

  • I never took physics and I know you're off by some amount. You did not account for the friction of the rope against the surface of the pully, the weight of the rope itself, and the friction of the pully against its axle. I'm kind of glad I didn't take physics because I would have probably been kicked out for nit picking the teacher :)

  • @neamerjell your arrogance blinds you of the fact that these problems assume an ideal system

  • @neamerjell  are you a troll or actually that dumb?

  • @SerbAthiest

    tension through out the rope remains equal, if the rope/string is inextensible.

    thats a universal fact..

  • What if the masses had 3:1 ratio? Even then the acceleration of the block would be twice than that of the pulley?

  • Fail!

    If the pulley has mass you have to account for the effects of rotation, plus the tension in the string at the top is NOT equal to the tension of the string at the bottom!

  • You have to add the distance the bottom string moved (1inch) plus the distance the bottom mass moved (1 inch) as a result of the bottom string getting shorter by that distance (equivalent) to get the distance the WHOLE system moved as a unit in itself, of course discounting the other of the system, which is the top unit. Diving this new value by 2, or just getting half, will give how much was added to the other half of the system (the top in this case). This is how I conceptualize the problem.

  • found it kinda hard to visualise the pulley and strings and why the bottom string was half the first- in its movement

  • please take my ph-211 final next week!

  • @timmytankTK I meant youtube is ruining the links I posted to a diagram. no need to be so bitter.

  • i still havent realized the problem

  • youtube is rubbish... to see my diagram, type in the address bar:

    bit  dot ly forward-slash aIbDPr

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    in a, the distance from the wall to the pulley is the same as the top length of rope which is m.

    the distance to the brick from the wall is (m - n)

    in b, the pulley goes forward by a units, so the top length of wire is now (m + a), and the bottom is (n - a) since that length is taken from the bottom as the rope is fixed length.

    the distance of the brick from the WALL, not the pulley is (m + a) - (n - a) or (m - n) + 2a... so in time t it moved 2a

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  • At first it seems like twisted logic, but I'm gonna make this simple.

    When the pulley goes one inch forward, it just physically goes one inch forward. Nothing surprising there.

    When the bottom rope goes one inch forward, it: 1. physically moves over by one inch. 2. The length of the bottom rope shortens by one inch to compensate for the forward movement. 1 inch + 1 inch = two inches. Yay.

  • His voice is mesmerizing.

  • Very helpfull for the process behind solving a physics equation.

  • Someone correct me if I'm wrong, so the block moves twice as far as the pulley because 1) the pulley moves 1in and therefore drags the block 1in and 2) because the pulley moves 1in, the wire is 1in shorter on the bottom, so that also pulls the block another 1in. so 1in + 1in = 2in?

  • "If the pulley moves 1 inch to the right, then this length (top side) will get 1 inch longer; and this length of rope (bottom side), because the rope is of a constant length, will get 1 inch shorter, so not only did the pulley move 1 inch to the right, but this rope right here got 1 inch shorter, so this block (attached to bottom) would've moved 2 inches to the right!"

    There's a leap in logic, if I'm any judge. Both sides would get equally longer/shorter if neither side were stationary, though.

  • Actually, I see now. When one side of the rope is stationary, the tail of the moving side travels double the distance of the end of the stationary side against the pulley, but the rope's length itself remains directly proportionate on both sides.

    Distance traveled and length of rope are two completely different things (distance includes displacement by the pulley AND change in length of rope on that particular side).

  • In relation to the length of the top wire and the bottom wire, that is correct.

    The block moves 1 inch closer to the pulley, and the wire on the bottom moves 1 inch to the right because the wire cannot expand. Thus, the block must move an additional 1 inch to the right (equalling 2").

  • I think he inserted energy into the equation. For instance: Lets say he jerked the mass block with a big truck going real fast. The cable will be the same length, one inch, but the block will move two inches, so now, we have slack in the cable, or "wire" as he refers to it. In his example, we have one inch of slack in the cable on the bottom side and a block that has been move two inches. Think about it.

    Good luck :)

  • OMG thank you so much. My prof was explaining this today but she based it on the length of the wire only and not the mass (something like L/2) and then she went to the assumption a = 2a and nobody understood (and she wouldn't even explain her steps again with everyone asking her). Now I get it:D

  • ya my teacher is also same like yours..

  • i dont get it. if the bottom rope connected to the 10kg mass gets an inch shorter, why does the 10kg mass move 2 inch closer to the pulley?

  • the 10kg doesn't get closer to the pulley by 2 inches...it just moves 2 inches from your perspective. So the mass actually gets closer to the pulley by 1inch.

  • just too easy........try smthin harder

  • I wish you would make chemistry video too.

    You are a good teacher because when I watch your video I understand it.

    And my chemistry is bad, I wish I could understand it too.

    Thank you so much for the videos. :)

  • I second this.

  • @sharron2792 he has a ton of normal and organic chemistry videos on his website.

  • do u go to MIT or something?

  • this guy is a great teacher!

  • ooo yea baby im a physics master....lol if i was i wouldnt watch ur vids...

  • lol physics master

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