Measurement of force

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • Oct 21, 2024

Oct 21, 2024

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Now consider this situation:

A couple of pulleys have been coupled together by a belt. Now what would be the practical procedure to determine the tensions in the belt, (the tension in the slack side, as well as the tight side).

And also, nowadays while solving, design problems, we just use the terms "tight side" and "slack side" of the belt. But in the belt what exactly are the limits of these two sides ?

any ideas

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Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 • Jul 24, 2012

This may give some info:
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zaveri

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • Jul 25, 2012

That was somewhat useful.

But what i wanted was to know about the experimental setup used for determining the tensions, something like the proney-brake arrangement, and stuff like that
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Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 • Jul 25, 2012

One thing that can be tried is to make equidistant marks on the surface of the belt with a permanent marker ad use a stroboscope to freeze motion. A measuring microscope or telescope can be used to measure the distance between marks when stationary and moving. The extension can be calibrated as tension using Hooke's law.
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zaveri

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • Jul 25, 2012

bioramani
One thing that can be tried is to make equidistant marks on the surface of the belt with a permanent marker ad use a stroboscope to freeze motion. A measuring microscope or telescope can be used to measure the distance between marks when stationary and moving. The extension can be calibrated as tension using Hooke's law.
what is a stroboscope ?
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Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 • Jul 25, 2012

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroboscope" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stroboscope</a>
<a href="https://makeprojects.com/Project/Stroboscope/313/1#.UBEc_2EeN4s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Make: Projects</a>

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gohm

@gohm-F3UUpP • Jul 26, 2012

A timing light is a familiar form of a stroboscope to those unfamiliar with them term.
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