The eternal quest to find real-world examples of those perfectly frictionless pulleys from physics textbooks has finally ended! Every physics student has solved countless problems with ideal pulleys that have zero friction, zero mass, and inextensible strings—objects that supposedly don't exist in nature. Yet here they are, hanging on power lines like mythical creatures spotted in the wild! Next thing you know, someone will find a cow that's actually a perfect sphere...
I Thought It Was Only A Myth
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