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Rush hour By: Ana Reyes Falling from a building… Continued… Physics laws are broken when two characters, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, survive a fall, from a height of about 30 ft. ,without any broken bones. Given: Formula: Solution: m= 82 kg F= mg F= (82 kg) (9.8 m/s) g= 9.8 m/s = 803.6 N F= ? The force hitting the concrete is large, 803.6 N, causing many damages to the person falling from a height of about 9 meters. Newton’s third law states, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”; therefore, the person hitting the concrete with 803.6 N will receive the same reaction from the concrete. During this event, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, are both hanging from a wood stick. This breaks the laws of physics because the thin stick would not be able to carry two masses at the same time due to gravity pulling both masses and causing the stick to break. During this scene, the moviemakers exaggerate on the strength of the two protagonists, Chan and Tucker. They are presented as stronger men than everyone else in the room. For example, whenever one of them kicks a man, the man flies and slams the wall. But whenever Tucker or Chan are kicked by someone, their effect seems to be less than the other men. It breaks the physics law because Newton’s Laws of Motion, “explains how the velocity of an object changes when it is subjected to an external force” and in this fighting scene doesn’t follow the law when Chan and Tucker are being kicked and punched by others. Works cited http://www.cinemovies.fr/images/data/films/Pfilm130929231418.jpg http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/newton.html http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_Ia8tECPalsg/RqAWUnHhyuI/AAAAAAAAAFU /Ax2dVyMBJtg/s320/Rush%2BHour3%2Bphoto1.JPG&imgrefurl=http://moviecafe.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-get-rush-for-3rdhours.html&h=209&w=320&sz=17&hl=en&start=72&um=1&tbnid=8tszbr2rPptDhM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=118&prev=