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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I'm (almost) sure that if you take those equations from above and work them further out you would see they are equal (you can in theory because there is always a direct relation between the various elements of the two sides (mass, length, angle, etc), by using ratios instead of real numbers)). The more I think about it the more I am convinced of that.
I already showed this in both my posts. Maybe it's hard for you to understand that without diagrams. The equations do equate.
I'm still not entirely sure how the "green" chain helps explain how it would slip in neither direction besides just stating that it's obvious. It seems to me that the chain underneath does nothing as long as you assume that the top part of the chain doesn't move to start off with. You can't just claim that.
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