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The airplane on the conveyor belt is more interesting in this respect, in that different people have different ideas about how the question should be interpreted.

For this question, I think everyone will agree on the likely expected assumptions. Incidentally, the mass of the rope doesn't affect the answer so long as it's uniform, and the mass of the pulleys doesn't matter so long as the pulleys directly attached to the weights all have the same mass. And once you assume the pulleys are frictionless, their moment of inertia doesn't affect the answer either.



True. The airplane problem had several things that were ambiguous; this problem only has things that are unspecified.




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