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Bad Science in Movies: Trajectory
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Purpose
Evaluate the trajectories of an unmanned airplane, a motorcycle and its driver as they all go off a cliff together.
Procedure
Watch clips of the movie "Golden Eye". Record air times for the unmanned aircraft, motorcycle, and driver. Plot the trajectories of each projectile.
sanmccarron
about 1 year ago
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WOW. This time I forgot to save the last step (after writing it). So here we are again with the conclusion:
Conclusions: Did the airplane, motorcycle, and person all follow an expected path, according to the laws of physics? Does the movie present good or bad physics? Defend your answers.