Monkey on a Rope
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You guys......... it is not a physics problem. It is a monkey problem. A monkey could climb a rope up a pulley even if it did not have a bucket of sand on either end. And he would throw the hand full of poop at you from the rafters where you could not get to him.
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If we make ideal assumptions - frictionless pulley, weightless rope, etc. - it doesn't matter where the monkey is located on the rope as position does not affect equilibrium.
I think the value of these kinds of problems is that it gets people thinking. There is no "right" answer, but thinking about the problem builds cognitive and reasoning skills.--------------------------------------------------
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