This document discusses physics inaccuracies in several movies. It analyzes stunts from The Simpsons Movie and The Hunger Games and finds them physically possible given explanations of forces and energy. However, it determines some scenes from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Hustle, and Star Wars to be impossible based on physics. Specifically, it says Indiana Jones could not survive a nuclear blast in a refrigerator, the harp in Kung Fu Hustle could not produce a cutting force, and explosions could not be heard in space since sound does not travel through a vacuum.

1. PHYSICS
IN MOVIES
BY: LIBRA

2. NON-FAKERS
REVEALED

4. The Simpsons
Movie (2007)
The Simpsons
family should
ride the
motorcycle
inside the Globe
of Death, for
them to have a
vehicle they
need.

5. • Homer takes it uponhimself atry and hedidit
successfully.
• How was this possible?!

6. Explanations:
1. Fc = mv2/r Centripetal Force
• It’s a force that makes a body
follow a curved path
• The force must be greater than the
force of gravity acting on the rider

7. 2. Fg = mg Force of Gravity
• Hence, the minimum required
velocity for the stunt is calculated
by (1) equating equations and
(2) vmin = √rg

9. • The Hunger
Games (2012)
• Clove was killed
by Thresh in just
two seconds by
just throwing her
into the
cornucopia.

10. Explanation:
• 3,300 Newtons- force to fracture a bone
• 5,500 Newtons- force that professional boxers can
release through a single punch.
• Since, Thresh is large and strong, he can resort a
enough force on Clove’s head and that force will
pass though the cornucopia. Using the Law of
Conservation of Mass, the force will reflect back
injuring Clove and enough to kill her.
• 2 seconds will do- meaning 5,500 as the force at 1
meter per second would be enough to kill Clove
easily.

11. BUSTING
PHYSICS
DEVIANTS!!!!

13. • Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom
of the Crystal
Skull (2008)
• Indiana Jones
escapes nuclear
annihilation by
hiding in a
refrigerator

15. IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!
• Most probably, you will be vaporized by the over 6000
degrees Celsius temperature of the bomb. It will melt
the lead, refrigerator and pretty much everything.
• Supposed you survived:
-Gamma radiation requires a 1cm thick lead layer to
decrease its intensity by 50%. So you pretty much require
a 1 meter thick lead bunker to be anywhere close to safe
if you are close to the blast, even then the dosage would
probably lead to cancer later in your life.
-it’s a nuclear blast. Indian Jones needs a breathing
apparatus to survive. Also, in the film, the air is irradiated
after the explosion. It’s impossible.

17. • Kung Fu Hustle
(2204)
• As the two harpist
strum the strings
of their harp, it
looks like they
send an invisible
knife that can cut
everything.

19. IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
• Although compressed air can be fatal and
can cut through something, it cannot be
produced from the harp with just a strum to
the strings.
• The speed of sound that was produced by
the harp is not enough to cut things.

21. • Star Wars Films
• Whenever there’s a fight scene in the
space, we can hear the explosions of the
spaceships

23. IMPOSSIBLE!!!
•Sound cannot travel in
vacuum. Space has no air.
Sound travels through the
vibration of atoms and
molecules in a medium (such
as air or water).