Question

To construct a compound pulley with an ideal mechanical advantage of 6 you would arrange several fixed and movable pulleys so that a total of ... rope segments were pulling up on the load

30pts

Answer 1

advantage equals 0.1, mate

1) advantage of plane: 5 divided by 25 = 0.2

2) advantage of fixed pulleys = 0

3) advantage of movable pulley = 0.5

4) and you multiply 0.2 and 0.5 = 0.1

to lift 1kg you don't need force 10N, you will just need 1N

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