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    Man in bosun's chair: why is tension 2T in the pulley equation?

    Tension and Pulleys...Cannot understand this problem So this is NOT for homework, (I'm doing practice problems reviewing for a final), but this is a textbook question that might as well be homework. This is the question: Figure 5-53 shows a man sitting in a bosun’s chair that dangles...