jt512
Mar 14, 2012, 8:01 PM
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skurdeycat wrote: Good lord. There isn't a single post is this thread that is completely accurate, except perhaps the OP, and the one linking to rgold. I don't know where to start.
Nor where to stop, unfortunately for you.
In reply to: Hanging without bouncing on toprope, the force on the ANCHOR is the sum of the weight of the belayer, the climber, the rope and if you want to be really picky, the masterpoint biner(s). There is no friction, rope elongation, pulley effect, nothing else to consider.
No friction? I think you need to think that through a little more.
In reply to: aargh, you folks scare me.
Is that your best pirate voice? At least it's better than your physics.
Jay
(This post was edited by jt512 on Mar 14, 2012, 8:12 PM)
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