Block and Tackle

Author's Game Description

You lift a 100 Newton weight (heavy red)10 cm (heavy green). How far does the rope move (thin green), and what's the force on the lines (thin red)?
Name of the pulley arrangement is at the top.

Modified from a drawing by Welkinridge at Wikipedia/Wikimedia.

Category: Science

Tags: machines, tackle, block, pulleys, physics, technology, science

Created by tickman November 9, 2008

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tickman November 9, 2008

More on this topic (and the ancestor of this image) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_and_tackle

The ancestor of the image alone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tackles.png

That image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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Highscores - Block and Tackle				Place 1 - 10
	Player Name	Score	Time	Date of Play
1	KingKoziol	100%	0:22.2 min.	2008-12-28
2	CarpeDiem	100%	0:22.3 min.	2008-11-11
3	heateh	100%	0:22.8 min.	2008-11-10
4	grevep	100%	0:29.6 min.	2008-11-11
5	tickman	100%	0:36.0 min.	2008-11-08
6	dalle	100%	0:36.6 min.	2008-11-09
7	kennera1	100%	0:38.2 min.	2008-11-11
8	Jhelps	100%	0:43.8 min.	2008-11-09
9	niklas	100%	0:50.0 min.	2008-11-09
10	bpollock	69%	1:08.5 min.	2008-11-14