Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Physics of Movie Trailers

Popular Science wrote The Science of Star Trek or more precisely, the physics of the car scene in the new Star Trek trailer. It would have made a nice homework problem in Physics I, when we stopped dealing with frictionless planes and massless pullies.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about deceleration due to gravity Mr. Hutton?

Howard said...

Ha. And to think, it only took about 25 years for his monochromatic look to catch on.