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Physics Goes To Hollywood
pigreco314 writes "What do films like Independence Day, Armageddon and X-Men have in common? The answer is that apart from costing millions of dollars to make, they all feature in a new course called Physics in Films that is being taught to students at the University of Central Florida, according to PhysicsWeb. Costas Efthimiou, the mathematical physicist who teaches the course, believes that non-science students learn more about the fundamentals of physics by studying films and science fiction than they do from more traditional approaches." Among the topics discussed is "the conservation of momentum in Tango and Cash."
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Since most of the Hollywood movies physics is nothing but pure bullshit, this course could give you the one and only degree of double BS - Bachelor Of Science In Bullshiting!
So you guys are now learning physics by watching movies!!!
So, don't cry when your physics reasearch gets outsourced.
Make learning fun... but NOT a JOKE !!
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That, or the fact that most cars have 2/3rd of their weight at the front... Special effect folks and stunt drivers usually stick around 500 lbs of sandbags in the trunk to achieve that fly-flat (crash)-land-flat effect.
The angular momentum of Galileo's rest mass just increased...
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People learning physics better from movies is exactly who most people think they can leap through a plate glass window from an exploding car, submachineguns blazing with no apparent need to reload, ever.
Physics lessons from Hollywood is like, the exact opposite of what we need.
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