
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-out Destructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
The Noble Cause: Striking a Blow for Decency in Movie Physics | |
Moviemaker Mathematics: How Hollywood Shoots from the Hip | |
Conservation of Mass and Energy: Is Anything Sacred? | |
Scaling Problems: Big Bugs and Little People | |
Inertia and Newton's First Law: Why Blowing Up Spacecraft is a Bad Idea | |
Newton's Third Law: That Special Hollywood Touch | |
Creative Kinematics: Explosive Entertainment | |
Hollywood Bombs: How Filmmaker Physics Misses the Boat | |
Leaping Logic: Why Moviemakers Say "How High" When the Director Says Jump | |
Acceleration and Newton's Second Law: How to Get Started, Use Brakes, or Change Direction, Hollywood Style | |
High-Energy Films: Nuclear Firecrackers, Falling People, and Cars as Weapons | |
Movie Momentum: The Attractive Force of Glass, Rail-Gun Recoil, and Cosmic Toyotas | |
JFK and Momentum: Hollywood's Conspiracy to Assassinate History - | |
Scenes with Real Gravity: Celebrating Disasters with Happy Hollywood Endings | |
Scenes with Artificial Gravity: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Space Stations | |
The Movie Merry-Go-Round: How Filmmakers Create Ridiculous Spin | |
Hollywood Disasters: Global Warming, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, and Other Big Winds | |
The Moviemaker's Cookbook: Cigarettes as Lighters, Exploding Cars, Burning Bugs, and Other Recipes for Foolishness | |
Wars versus Trek: Forgiving versus Forgetting | |
All-Time Stupid Movie Physics Classics: "They Said the Physics Were Impossible . . ." | |
Notes | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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