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Passive mechanical system to direct force and displacement into different ropes - Can this even be? (Mechanical transistor with direct actuation)
In this question I'd like to ask wether it is possible in general to build the following device. I don't come from an engineering background, so I'm probably not using the right words, but I'll try to ...
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What would the tension in the cable be?
A subsequent question stemming from here A massless motor is attached to a massless pulley(the blue circle) with a fixed rotational inertia and they are all attached to a mass X (the green platform). ...
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Springs on a pulley... When to use?
I saw a machine that fed a sheet of laminate through some rollers. The motor had a pulley attached to its shaft, and a spring connected to the pulley. Why not use a belt? Wouldnt the spring make it ...
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