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Hello guys! Another question appeared during the preparation for my exam . For some reason I don't feel 100% comfortable when dealing with systems including pulleys and masses. In the given exercise I'm supposed to calculate the kinetic energy T of the system (which ultimately leads to the...

Hey. Thanks for the quick response. Here are some thoughts: I'm picking a cartesian coordiante axis y with origin at the initial position of the block B pointing "downwords" - that is to say: in the direction the entire system is falling. As a next step I'm picking l_1 as a generalized...

Hello guys. This is not really a homework exercise, but I'm currently preparing for an exam and this is a question I got from a textbook. I'm currently sort of stuck, but here are the details. Homework Statement Link to a scan of the problem...