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Old 02-20-2007, 08:05 AM   #1
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Physics and RoTK??!

Hey... I have this weird paper on my physics class, something about the "physics concepts and principles applied" on the Return of the King. Included are the flaws (with respect to the laws of physics) of the movie and the recommendation thingy. I'd be so glad to have a little help from you guys. Thank you!
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Old 02-20-2007, 08:31 AM   #2
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You seem to have a more interesting Physics class then I had - the centroid method of measuring uncertainties in a gradient was probably the funnest thing we ever did
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Old 02-20-2007, 08:52 AM   #3
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Are you saying that the flaws are noted, and that you are to explain why these events contradict the laws of physics? If so, can we have the list?
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Old 02-20-2007, 09:34 AM   #4
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pity you're not doing the fellowship

on another lotr site many years back now it seems, we had a lot of fun, ganshing of teeth, screaming, cursing etc on how on earth movie Gandalf caught up with 1/ his sword 2/ the balrog on his trip down the unmeasurable drop from the bridge of kazad dum. unfortunately the site seemed to go into decline and vanish a couple of years back (hence why I moved onto here)
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Old 02-20-2007, 10:04 AM   #5
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Maybe he used the Force
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Old 02-20-2007, 02:26 PM   #6
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on another lotr site many years back now it seems, we had a lot of fun, ganshing of teeth, screaming, cursing etc on how on earth movie Gandalf caught up with 1/ his sword 2/ the balrog on his trip down the unmeasurable drop from the bridge of kazad dum. unfortunately the site seemed to go into decline and vanish a couple of years back (hence why I moved onto here)
Maybe his inertial mass was not equal to his gravitational mass. Sure, that would prove general relativity wrong, but hey, we have empirical evidence.
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pity you're not doing the fellowship

on another lotr site many years back now it seems, we had a lot of fun, ganshing of teeth, screaming, cursing etc on how on earth movie Gandalf caught up with 1/ his sword 2/ the balrog on his trip down the unmeasurable drop from the bridge of kazad dum. unfortunately the site seemed to go into decline and vanish a couple of years back (hence why I moved onto here)
lol! Yes, my sister and I notice that every time. Very strange, really...

In the book, I guess he kept the sword in his hand? One hand was empty because he had broken his staff and no long held it, the other held his sword...the Balrog's whip got him, he fell, snatched at the edge of the broken bridge, and fell.
In the movie, however, he dropped both his sword and his staff when he got lapped up by the whip. Very careless of him...

As for flaws on the RotK in concerns to Physics...none seem to pop up in my mind at present. Good luck.

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Old 02-20-2007, 02:33 PM   #8
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Surely sliding down the trunk of an oliphaunt or whatever Legolas Bond did must break some law of physics but maybe it just broke the law against crap sequences in films
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pity you're not doing the fellowship

on another lotr site many years back now it seems, we had a lot of fun, ganshing of teeth, screaming, cursing etc on how on earth movie Gandalf caught up with 1/ his sword 2/ the balrog on his trip down the unmeasurable drop from the bridge of kazad dum. unfortunately the site seemed to go into decline and vanish a couple of years back (hence why I moved onto here)
I'm so pedantic but thats actually in the Two Towers

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The return-fire from Gondor (using sections of their own wall)
Yes, how the hell did they manage that?! Firstly, did they have chunks of the wall simply sitting around and secondly how did they get the bits of wall on the giant catapults?!
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Old 03-09-2007, 10:54 PM   #10
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Yes, how the hell did they manage that?! Firstly, did they have chunks of the wall simply sitting around and secondly how did they get the bits of wall on the giant catapults?!
I'm not sure if those stones were supposed to be the ones freshly broken. Gondor itself was already falling into disrepair, so instead of expending manpower and time to removing broken sections of the walls, just save on space and load them into the cranes. And a good idea it was, too.
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