Laboratory exercises in physics for secondary schools (1906)
Twiss, George Ransom, b. 1863 · Chicago, Scott, Foresman and company · leaf 46
or different loads. The Apparatus consists of a pair of pulleys, flex-ible cord, a pan of known weight, and a metric rule. Preliminary Study.—(a) With any arrangement ofpulleys (Fig. 5), if there were no friction, howwould the pull at any cross section of the cord com-pare with that at any other… … Fig. 5. MECHANICS OF SOLIDS 25 (c) With a single fixed pulley, is any advantagegained in applying a force, except that of changingthe direction of the pull ? (d) With a single movable pulley (i?, Fig. 5)what two parts of the cord support the movablepulley and its load ? How do the upward pulls…
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