strand-run
An open belt, whose wraps make one turn
Two pulleys of radius 40 and 24 mm with their centres 160 mm apart, with the strand running the same way round both. The two tangency points on each pulley are marked; the run between them is computed from the signed radius difference and nothing else. The wrap angles are 191.48° and 168.52°, and they add to exactly one turn — the turning number of a simple loop. Length 522.6633 mm, against the textbook formula's 522.6633. positioned by solving, not by drawing.
Where it is used
- A member with no length of its own Members that pull
- Where a strand leaves a body Members that pull
- The wraps add up to a turn Members that pull
- A ratio that is a derivative of a length Members that pull
- The strand that is slack Members that pull
- The tensioner is the unknown Members that pull
- The radius a winch works at Members that pull
- A chain is not a strand Members that pull
- Six things a strand is not Drawn wrongly
- The taut path has more than one answer Members that pull
- Where a strand stops touching Members that pull
- The road a wheel carries with it Wheels, and where they may not go
- A drum is a size, a wrap is a shape Members that pull
- The wrap that walks along the axis Members that pull
- A strand in a tube Members that pull
- Which walls a strand is held by Members that pull
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