The easiest way I know to explain it is this:
-- Take a flashlight and a ball into a dark room.
-- Turn on the flashlight and point it at the ball.
-- Half of the ball is lighted up by the flashlight, and the other half is dark.
-- There is no way you can turn or twist the ball to make more or less
than 50% of it lighted up and more or less than 50% of it dark.
<em>Everything</em> in the solar system ... as long as it's shaped like a ball ... is
half illuminated by the sun and half dark.
Assuming you are looking for the acceleration a:
1.

2.

where T is the tension and a is the acceleration of the blocks. The acceleration of the two blocks and the acceleration of the pulley must be equal.
The torque on the pulley is given by:
3.

where

and

.
Combining the three equations:
1 watt = 1 joule per second = 1 newton meter per second = 1 kg m2 s-3
Velocity is defined as Distance divided by Time.
In other words, V = D/T.
Now that we have our formula, we can solve.
Let's plug in the numbers we have.
We have 12m [East (direction not necessary when solving yet)] for our distance, and 0.15s as our time.
Divide the distance (12 /) by the time (0.15)
12 / 0.15 = 80.
Your velocity is 80 m/s [E]
I hope this helps!