Another Conundrum.
Dear Sir, —Another conundrum, if you don’t mind, that may interest your readers, is the old one which runs as follows: A single pulley-block is suspended from a beam, and through the pulley runs a rope, both ends touching the floor. To one end of the rope is fastened a 1501 b weight, and the other end is grasped by a man weighing exactly 1501bs, who commences to climb this rope. The question is to find what happens (assuming, for argument’s sake, that the rope weighs nothing and the pulley is frictionless). Does the man go up while the weight remains on the floor, or vice versa, or does weight and man ascend together? A very old conundrum, evidently very popular among engineering students some years ago. How many can remember it?— I am, etc., SPREYDON.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 752, 4 May 1933, Page 10
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138Another Conundrum. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 752, 4 May 1933, Page 10
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