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MythBusters, Falling, Stopping, and Integration
In a MythBusters episode some time ago, Adam and Jamie jumped off a building. There was some cool stuff in this, but I want to focus on the acceleration data they collected. Before jumping into a pit...
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More ESPN Sport Science Goodness
Let me be clear. I am not really an attacker. If someone wrote a report about ski jumping or something and misused the word “momentum”, no big deal. However, if you have a show that claims to be about...
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What could you do with 54,000 watts?
I already looked at ESPN’s Sport Science episode where they calculate that Marshawn Lynch produces 54,000 watts when pulling some tires. Yes, that is way too high. However, what would happen if some...
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MythBusters and double the speed
In the last episode of MythBusters, Adam and Jamie wanted to test something that Jamie had said earlier: “Two cars crashing head on at 50 mph is the same as one car crashing into a wall at 100 mph”...
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MythBusters’ energy explanation
I already mentioned the MythBusters’ crashing two cars episode where they correctly doubled the speed of a pendulum type object. Overall, this was a very visual (although expensive) demo. There was one...
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How hot would the space jumper get?
A new video from the Red Bull Stratos Jump guys came out. Here it is: This reminds me of an unanswered question about the Stratos jump that I didn’t address on my last post on this topic. Commenter...
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Ask a ScienceBlogger: Evaporating Water
Here is another question from Ask a ScienceBlogger. Reader Uday Panta asks: How does water evaporate in the seas? Doesn’t water evaporate at 100 C? There were some very good responses in the comments...
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Collisions: Kinetic energy or momentum?
In the last episode of MythBusters, they wanted to see if a tornado could make some glass cut off a person’s head. The first attempt was just to take some glass and through it at a simulated human...
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Turn or go straight? Quick!
This is a classic problem. You are in a car heading straight towards a wall. Should you try to stop or should you try to turn to avoid the wall? Bonus question: what if the wall is not really wide so...
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What if everyone jumped?
Might as well jump. Jump. Go ahead, jump. – Van Halen Suppose everyone in the world got together and jumped. Would the Earth move? Yes. Would it be noticeable? Time for a calculation. Note: I am almost...
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