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There is one bike wheel tied up in a rope if you drop it ...it falls This Question ask how do you make the wheel beat physics Gravity / how to make it fly into the air? The only thing you have is one bike wheel and a rope So how do you make it not fall?

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You could hypothetically spin the wheel really fast, which would keep it in the air for a very short amount of time, mimicking an airplanes generator. However, this would be extremely difficult to achieve with just a rope and wheel and no other external resources.
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When it comes to defying gravity and making an object like a bike wheel fly into the air, it's a bit tricky. In this case, with just a bike wheel and a rope, it's not possible to make it stay suspended in the air without any additional assistance or external forces. Gravity is a fundamental force that pulls objects towards the Earth. So, unless there's something else involved like propulsion or anti-gravity technology, the wheel will naturally fall due to gravity.

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