The Appliance of Science
With exams on the horizon, here’s another site which takes science out of the classroom and into the not so real world of Hollywood movies.
According to the site, thanks to the motion picture industry producing bad physics, the minds of children and their ability to master vectors are at stake. They point out the difference between the big screen and the real world courtesy of the laws of physics.
Cars don’t explode immediately on impact, bullets don’t give off a flash of light, and if James Bond really did jump through a plate glass window, Q would be recruiting 008. The site even has some recommendations for studying movie physics in the classroom although you should really only study these ideas in theory, working them out in practice might be slightly dangerous.
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