Movie Project By: Jessica Chinwuba

The Avengers Movie Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KekWFB4EPE

Thor releases his anger on Iron Man with his hammer. The applied force applied to Iron Man is abundantly

greater than the friction force Iron Man tries to apply when trying to stop himself from flying into the forest.

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Impact Force of Thor’s Hammer to Iron Man

Impact Force Formula(F): 2 m v/t 

Mass(m) of Thor’s Hammer: 19.5952 kg

Velocity at Impact(v): 3.3528 m/s

Time Contact during Impact(t): .05 sec

Impact Force(F): 2627.95 N

Achieving this amount of force is hardly realistic unless you are a lean, mean superhero. An average 220-pound man cannot use that much force to knock Iron Man (412 pounds) 11 feet into the forest. The Impact Force of Thor’s Hammer is equivalent to a large 200 kg stone falling from a hill with a velocity of 30 m/s falling on a floor in 5 seconds.

Diagram of Thor’s Leap

As Thor is in the middle of leaping, his torso is already moving upwards with some velocity, and if he intends to leap to any reasonable height, this velocity will be increasing. Because of this, Thor’s center of mass is accelerating upwards, indicating that he is experiencing a net force upwards. The normal force is greater than the gravitational force.

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Inelastic Collision Calculation of Thor’s Hammer Colliding With Captain America’s

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Initial data m1 (Thor’s Hammer) =   19.5952 kg m2 (Captain America’s Shield)= 5.67 kg v1 = 10 m/s Momentum = 997.9kg m/s Kinetic energy = 4989.5 J

Calculated final valuesv2 = 9.46 m/s

Momentum = 9997.9 kg m/s Kinetic energy =  4721.24J

After the moment of collision, Captain America was still alive and his shield was not severely dented. With the amount of kinetic energy that Thor exerted, Captain America should have been roughed up in that fight. Instead, the shield absorbed and redirecting the kinetic energy Thor applied to it.

MOVIE RATING!

NR=Unrated (this film is based off of comic book superheroes)