Monday, March 5, 2012

Outline of first term paper

Physics in The Simpsons Movie

I'm just going to list down what I can explain about, it might be a lot but I can narrow it down.

Introduction
The Simpsons has mostly been just a TV series until the appearance of the movie version. In order for The Simpsons to be entertaining for a film featured length, it has to focus in developing the physics in the world.

Body
Arcs:
  • Bart shooting bebe rifle at Homer carrying loads of bricks - bebe bullet arc and falling
  • Bart skateboarding and flings off from his skateboard - as a dare from playing the dare game with Homer.
  • Mobs, elementary kids using archery aim and miss the Simpsons when Plopper, the pig, shoved the plank - flying arc, most aim was very precise that the apex and some aim were too high (not enough range) so they miss (some simply just miss).
  • Homer rides on the motorcycle to win the prize by riding it in a loop at least once. fail 1 for falling off the bike Fails 2 times for not going fast enough and succeed when he speeds up
  • Homer sledding with huskies jumping over a cliff. - arc
  • Homer tries to ramp the truck with demolisher rack-em ball but did not swing enough force
  • Homer and Bart riding the motorcycle around the dome - perhaps due to limited air pressure from the sewer cover size hole in the center top of the dome.
  • Homer and Bart jumping the Springfield gorge. - arc
Ricochets:
  • Springfield homeland security tries to shoot the dome put the bullet ricochet back at them.
  • Ralph blowing bubbles to attack the dome but they reflect back.
  • EPA leader, Cargill, tossed binocular and it ricochet back that him. - binocular flies slow but reflect by the dome with greater speed back
Falling object:
  • Green Day band falling off of their barge into lake springfield - center of gravity and base
  • Homer releasing the loaded bricks - falling brick
  • Maggie tossed a rubber ball up to the air and it falls back to her - odd rule of falling object
  • Maggie being sucked and spitted out of the sinkhole - ball flings out of Maggie's hand
  • Bart rescue Homer and himself from falling off Springfield Gorge with his slingshot to fling back up the gorge.

Inertia:

  • Homer pulled by a truck to get back home
  • Stopping truck of the captured Simpsons.

Possible others:

  • Bart fling off from TV antenna and fumbling on the roof
  • Homer collapse through the roof - Homer's weight vs wood density
  • The bomb fumbling around the hole of the dome
Conclusion
An animation series that attempts to entertain people for a film feature length should play around more with physics, mainly to make things in its world more believable and to make some absurdity for comedy.

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