Lee pulls on a flag and Carter and a gunman falls
After getting Soo-Young safely down the tower, Lee and Carter stay behind to fight the gunmen. Lee realizes that Carter and a gunman is fighting on a French flag that Lee pulled down before, so Lee pulls on the flag causing them to fall in order to distract the fight.
Lee yanks the flag out so the people on it could lose balance and fall. This is an example of the first law; the law of inertia (Newton). When the do fall, they land on the same spot from where they were standing, regardless of how the flag was swiped out from underneath them. The law states that ‘if there is no net force acting on the object (the people), it will maintain its state of rest or constant velocity’ and inertia is the ‘resistance of the object to change its state of rest or motion’. When the flag is pulled away, the flag moves away from its initial spot whereas the people continue in their state of rest; they don’t move from the spot they were in before, though, they do fall due to their loss of balance.
It is similar to when you could yank a tablecloth from underneath bunch of cutleries. With the right amount of force and angle, you can succeed in pulling the cloth out without upsetting them. This shows you that the cutleries stayed at their initial spot since there is no net force acting on the object itself while the cloth moved because the pulling motion was the net force acting on it. This is an example relating to how Lee pulled on a flag and still have Carter and the man stay at the same spot they were before.
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