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Re:Which weight will lift first as the rope is pulled? by EventHorizon on Friday September 03, 2010 @11:57AM (#1659986)
Could it not be in a meta stable equilibrium like this if the weights were of equal mass? The numbers of the weights are unit-less. We assume they represent the mass, but for all I know the number is the serial number of the weight.
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Re:Which weight will lift first as the rope is pulled? by hop on Friday September 03, 2010 @12:06PM (#1660020)
For all we know, it could be in space, they could be heavily magnetized, 100m/s wind, .5 CoF in the pulleys, the rope could stretch, and the system could be traveling near the speed of light.
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