SOLUTION: 1. In the movie The Walk (2015), 24-year-old French high-wire artist Philippe Petit walks between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. While walking on the high-wire, he hold

Question 1186512: 1. In the movie The Walk (2015), 24-year-old French high-wire artist Philippe Petit walks between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. While walking on the high-wire, he holds a long pole. Explain the physical significance of the pole.
2. Enumerate three (3) objects in your house that exhibits rotation, rotational equilibrium, and/or rotational inertia.

Answer by ikleyn(52925) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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(1)  The pole helps hold equilibrium.



(2)  (a) rotation:   washer;  dish-washer; the minute and hour hands in my wrist watch.

         Wind electric generator (although it is not in my house . . . )



     (b) rotational equilibrium:   a bike.


     (c) rotational inertia:   a bike, again.

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On " how a pole helps a high-wire artist to hold equilibrium ", see this Internet article

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-tightrope-walkers-carry-a-polebar-during-their-performance.html

See also this Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightrope_walking

which has many references that might be of help to satisfy your curiosity.

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