Outline for the Second Term Paper

Introduction

Thesis: I will be exposing violations in Newton's Third Law of Motion from Django Unchained, the Simpsons, and Monty Python the Holy Grail. Showing that for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action, the equal and opposite re-action will be my focus.

Body Paragraphs

1. Django Unchained: Double-barrel 12 gauge shotgun on Dr. Schultz

• In the first clip Dr. Schultz is blown away (0:46) the force of the double-barrel 12 gauge shot gun is the same on the shoulder of the shooter as it is in Dr. Schultz chest.
• What we should expect is the consistency of the watermelons in FPS Russians youtube video plus a lot of other effects given a change in chemistry.
• the back fence did not go up like the book shelf explosion.
• instead of Dr. Schultz looking like an acetylene barrel.
• all other shots were fairly accurate given the rounds of the guns.

2. Simpsons Lord of the Rings spoof

• avoiding all other inaccuracies and focusing on (3:39) in the clip shows Bart putting a square brick in a round cardboard tube. Clearly the fit is not air tight.
• the brick land and hits a American Shipping Serviceman in the chest and is forced to the ground.
• we have to make 2 assumptions to enjoy the show
• 1. Bart can blow a brick with a breadth of air.
• 2. Bart's breadth of air can knock a man over.
• These clearly break the 3rd law, because a 160lb man can not be blown over by a boy (where a mans lung capacity is 6 Liters, so Bart might have 2.5 given his ration to Homer).
• the effect of a grown man (6 liters of air) blowing on a candle can be shown by Jack Black in the next video, the effect Bart would have at a much farther distance would be even less.

3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

• As the king of the Brits goes around asking for direction on the Holy Grail, he comes across a castle filled with Frenchmen in England.
• As the Frenchmen provokes them, he ends up throwing a Cow over the wall.
• There are cows and other farm yard animals thrown from the walls of the castle, one lands on one of the knights and the knight gets up and runs away.
• if the forces from the cow coming off the wall was applied to a human they would be smashed.
• the man would be just as dead as the cow.

Conclusion

• Physical laws are intentionally broken throughout the film whenever more dramatization is wanted.
• the Third law states for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action, the equal and opposite re-action while these three examples show the Director alters this law for effect.