P3_10 How Strong is Rapunzel’s Hair?

Authors

  • Nathan Pilkington
  • John Bettles
  • Michael Perry
  • Iain Clarke

Abstract

 

In the Disney animated motion picture entitled Tangled; Rapunzel, located in a tower 70 feet tall, lowers her hair down to allow a fully grown adult man to climb up it and into the tower. This paper investigates the feasibility of this. It was determined that it is easily possible and that her hair could, in fact, support a maximum mass of just over 2750kg.

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Published

02-12-2011

How to Cite

Pilkington, N., Bettles, J., Perry, M., & Clarke, I. (2011). P3_10 How Strong is Rapunzel’s Hair?. Physics Special Topics, 10(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/2015

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2011): Physics Special Topics

Section

Articles