Physics Goes To Hollywood

Posted by simoniker on Friday April 23, 2004 @10:33PM from the relax-when-you-study-it dept.

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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it's all politics by motiv8x · 2004-04-23 22:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hollywood is nothing but a political machine. Can't wait for Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11" to come out!

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1. Re:it's all politics by EvanED · 2004-04-24 03:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Now wait, was this before or after bin Laden changed from the "good" list to the "bad" list?
It's true! by pjt33 · 2004-04-24 01:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm never changing the tyres on my Ford again.