Taylor's physics in films blog

Nuclear Protection Lots of people love to watch action movies, where there is exploration, action, and most importantly explosions. In the movie Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, there is all of these qualities and more. The movie in fact starts out with a fight scene and the goes on and shows our hero survive a nuclear explosion. Now you may ask, how did our hero survive the explosion? The answer to that is that he climbed inside a lead lined refrigerator and was sent flying off into the distance. The problem that I am looking at has to deal with projectile motion and how Indiana Jones was sent flying while hiding in this refrigerator. There are a couple of aspects that we should take into account when it comes to looking at our problem. The first aspect is how high does the refrigerator travel after being hit by the explosion. We can find the answer to this by using the equation y=1/2(Vyi+Vyf)t ,but there are parts of this equation that we need to ...

Black Holes In the movie Interstellar there are a lot of different physics topics to talk about but the most interesting is probably the black hole Gargantua. What makes black holes so interesting is that there is so little that we actually know about them yet there are some effects that we do know. What we do know about how black holes work is that they exert a large gravitational acceleration so strong that nothing can escape from it. It also has the ability to exert a very strong gravitational force on any nearby object such as planets that are nearby. This is especially important when the group of astronauts land on the ocean planet that is nearby. On this nearby planet there are these very large waves that reach towards the sky. These waves are caused by the pull of the gravitational field of the nearby black hole. The pull of black hole would rock the planet back and forth relative to the black hole. This occurrence causes the planets tidal gravity to reach towards the b...