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
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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.
(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
