Elevator Design - Rack and Pinion Cascaded - 772

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Originally Posted by Ether

If you want to use the weight of only the moving piece, then you can do that... but the distance you would use is the distance the moving piece moves, not the distance the center of mass of the assembly (including the non-moving portions) moves.

So the way you were telling me is a different technique used to find the Energy needed to move my parts? I am not there in in Physics/Engineering yet so I had/have a hard time understanding it. I would prefer to do it how far each part moves, because that's what I understand at this moment, with my education so far.