In the movie Tang and Cash, Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone escape from a prison by jumping off the top of a tall wall through the air and onto a high voltage power line. Before the jump, Stallone objects to the idea, telling Russell respond with “You did not take high school Physics. Did you? As long as you are only touching one wire. And your feet are not touching the ground, you do not get electrocuted. ”Is this a correct statement?
The statement is correct.
Explanation:The statement is true since for the motion of charges through a material requires a high potential and a low potential.Since, there feets are not touching the ground, the electric charges are not able to flow their body.
Thus we conclude that the electric charges require a potential difference to flow flow across a material. This only the region that the bird sitting on the High tension line are not electrocuted.