At the test site, the MythBusters built a small cabin with a glass window in addition to parking a car and leaving a table with lots of glass objects on it. When a Blue Angel jet, with Adam aboard, flew by at supersonic speed and with 8, feet of altitude, barely a sound was heard. At 2, feet, a loud boom was heard but no glass was broken.
The jet continued to make lower and lower passes, ultimately making five passes at just feet. Because of the extremely unlikely circumstance of a foot supersonic jet pass, and the minimal damage observed, this myth was declared busted. That's like asking why most aliens have two legs and two arms, or why Arnold Schwarzenegger still stands at the end of the movie against all odds or why Xena wears a body armor which has zero protective value.
I would say that while wanted doesn't actually follow Newton's laws it does make an attempt to pretend they are. The bullets curving are explained by a combination of super human reaction speed and the altered bullet itself.
While we know for a fact shown to us by Mythbusters this won't actually curve a bullet, it's a better explanation than: "Artistic License". Bobby I wouldn't say zero protective value. Isn't that kind of standard for all female armor in fantasy? The less material, the greater the armor class advantage via distraction.. Show 6 more comments.
Active Oldest Votes. Yes, Wanted doesn't follow Newton's Laws of Motion. However, the movie itself does attempt to explain how bullets are curved through the air. Improve this answer. Mythbusters video: youtube. With some artistic license and a half-explanation, maybe the curving bullet doesn't make my head explode. That a bread truck could keep up with a sports car, however Note that there are guided bullets prototyped at Sandia that change trajectory to track a laser target.
And that there are smart munitions that explode after N distance is flown. Add a comment. You can see why the writers might think the example of a curveball makes this plausible, but a little more knowledge of physics shows this doesn't make sense. Changing the path of a moving object means changing the momentum vector, done by applying a force for some time, since change in momentum is force integrated over time.
With a curveball this force is due to different air pressures on each side, created by its spin and stitching; but a bullet has a much larger momentum than a ball, and there's much less time for the air to apply a force to it, so the change to its direction would be tiny. Link on the physics of curveballs, if anyone's curious: ffden Wanted Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Recently Changed Pages Mr.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Curved Bullets. Instead of calculating the motion of a spinning bullet or something, I am just going to determine the force needed to make a bullet curve.
That force can then be compared to other forces like gravity and air resistance. How does a force make an object curve? If you want to think about it in terms of force and acceleration, the acceleration of an object moving in a circle is:. The negative and the r-hat indicate that the acceleration is towards the center of the circle. So, what do I need to calculate this force to move in a circle? For the circle, first I am using a circular path just because it is a little easier.
I know the bullet might be able to do something else weird, but I am ok with that. How do I estimate the radius for a bullet? First it curves away from the person in the middle and then curves back to the target behind her.
If I just look at the first curve, I can estimate the distance from the person and the deflection. From this, I can calculate the radius of the circle.
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