To me it is the same as every other action in the full device contributing to the final task. Looked at as a whole system, you technically shouldn't be able to distinguish between the pulling of the initial string and the mass lifting at the end, the only thing that really separates everything is time (sometimes only a little, sometimes a lot) and the occasional interlock (switches, etc).Flavorflav wrote:If you are simultaneously scoring points for the pulley and the ramp, how is that not a single action contributing to two scoreable tasks? Even if they have the pulley drag the object up the ramp for 10cm before lifting it 5 additional cm, it would seem to me that the ramp is not causing the next action , it is simply continuing.
ETA: I could see scoring both IFF there were another task in between - i.e., if the object triggered another action at the top of the ramp and stopped the pulley, and then some other action started the pulley again. Otherwise, it would seem to be either double-counting or parallel. Your thoughts, gentlemen?
Presumably the string going through the pulley will end in either some sort of loop or hook, as the mass being raised up the ramp must be removable. If I were judging this event somewhere (which I currently have no plans to do), I would consider the loop/hook the mass raised at least 5cm for task 4.e and the removable mass as being pulled up the ramp by said loop/hook for task 4.l.
It is absolutely not parallel, as the pulley could fail in several ways (the physical pulley breaks, the string hops off the track, the loop fails, the string breaks, etc) and the chain of events would cease. The issue is double-counting tasks/actions, which I do not believe would be the case here.