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Now assume that all of the thermal energy generated remains in a rock, and the rock has a specific heat of 1000J/kg degrees centigrade. For me problems that start like this are no-brainers, meaning that I am missing a huge segment of my brain that can make sense of most physics problems. The topic of this book is demystifying and debunking physics in movies, but unless you are fairly well advanced in physics you won't get past the first few pages. I did take physics101 but that was way back in the last century. Formulas abound here as we tackle rotational kinetic energy, and high level static discharge.
This looks like an interesting book, but it is not for the mathematically challenged. Sorry. Now there is a book on the same subject that I can recommend that still has formulas, but that I found fun and intelligible for dummies. It's by Tom Rogers and it's called "Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics".
I really dithered over my rating for this book. Physics freaks may give it five stars, but what about people like me who don't know that all inertial frames are equivalent? Sigh. I gave it three stars.
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Don't Try This At Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies is a fresh look at the basics of physics through the filmmaker's lens. It will deconstruct, demystify, and debunk popular Hollywood films through the scientific explanations of the action genre's most dynamic and unforgettable scenes. Sample movie sequence and related physics concepts:In ""Speed,"" a city bus going over 50 mphjumps over a 50-foot chasm--successfully. An examination of force, acceleration, Newton's Laws, impulse, momentum, and projectile motion follows.
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