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Why Snatch Blocks are AWESOME (How Pulleys Work) - Smarter Every Day 228

2019-12-05

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We discussed Snatch Blocks on this episode of the No Dumb Questions podcast:

https://www.nodumbquestions.fm/listen/2019/9/21/067-the-lost-city-of-nineveh

If you'd like to 3D print the Snatch Blocks and pulleys we use in this video they are here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4022579

Read Plutarch's account of Archimedes:

http://www.math.pitt.edu/~sph/osher-course/plutarch-on-archimedes.pdf

The wikipedia page on Block and Tackle is really good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_and_tackle

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Snatch Block Example
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Compound Pulley System
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Snatch Blocks
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