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No, not in the textbook. The professor gave it to us as a brainteaser :)

Haha. The length between the bananas and the pulley is infinite, as well as the length between the monkey and the pulley. This is not a practicalnproblem, but a theoretical one.

If the monkey accelerates, it will create a bigger and bigger tension in the rope, which again will drag the bananas higher and higher.

A bunch of bananas hangs from the end of a rope that passes over a light, frictionless pulley. A monkey of mass equal to the mass of bananas hangs from the other end of the rope. The monkey and the bananas are initially balanced and at rest. The rope is infinite, so the monkey can't just drag...