Ideal rope

Object — Massless, inextensible rope that transmits tension unchanged.

Present in chapters

02 · 03

Linked atoms

19 linked atoms.

00 Physical quantities, estimates, equilibrium

• Worked exercise — Block hanging from two ropes
• Problem — Picture hung on two wires
• Types of forces

02 Forces and Newton’s laws

• Two blocks tied together with an applied force
• Two bodies connected by a pulley
• Worked exercise — two boxes with a spring and a pulley
• Problem — Crate hanging from the ceiling
• Problem — Two blocks tied together on a smooth plane
• Problem — Three blocks connected and two tensions

03 Inclined plane and circular motion

• Two masses on a triangular plane
• Cut string
• Centripetal force on a string
• Atwood’s machine
• Atwood’s pulley: the force on the axle
• Conical pendulum
• Inclined plane with a pulley and a hanging mass
• Properties of the ideal rope
• Pulley on a double inclined plane
• Speed of a conical pendulum