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Atwood's Machine Problems



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Atwoods Machine Problems: describes a method for solving atwood machine problems when the pulley’s mass is negligible.
This video assumes the mass is negligible (i.e., the rotational inertia of the pulley is near zero). It can also represent a problem with a massive pulley that offers no friction between itself and the string so that the pulley does not turn. For a video that gives the details of what to do when the pulley is massive see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Q0LqZ1FjY .
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  1. I tried to apply the Atwood Machine in the field at my job. I have to carry my 50 pound backpack up and down a 175' tower. So I thought to create an Atwood Machine using a 200' rope, two pulleys, my backpack(M1) and some weights(M2). The objective was to establish equilibrium so that I could easily take my backpack up and down the tower with little to no effort. My atwood machine failed miserably. I was able to raise my backpack (lowering the weights) with very little effort. But lowering my backpack (raising the weights) took a tremendous amount of effort – there had to have been at least 25lbs of resistance when lowering my backpack. I'm baffled in how it worked one way but not the other.

  2. okay, can you explain how you got had m2 in the denominiator to be positive? I had a negative m2. I used the technique of summation of forces along the y-axis.

  3. Why can't I use the equatn Ft-mg=Fnet?
    Because Ft is pointing upward(Assumed +ve) and mg is pointing downward(Assumed -ve)
    if we are to take the vector direction in mind.

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