Physics Concept In Movie

TRACER

                    Tracer is an action movie from America and the main actor is Taylor Lautner as Sam. So, from the movie i can catch up physics concept that had been used by the actors. 

                    First, in this movie, there are many of parkour activity. Parkour is defined as the activity or sports of moving rapidly through an area, which typically in an urban environment, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing.

                  

                    So, my point of view about physics in this movie are most related to parkour activity by Sam who are zero knowledge about parkour and only know riding his bicycle as a bike messenger in New York. He started to feel excitement in parkour when a woman, Marie Avgeropoulus as Nikki suddenly lands on him when they bumped each other. So, Nikki suddenly walk, jump and run throughout the obstacles and climb from one floor to another floor and missing. So, Sam eager to find Nikki and at last he saw Nikki and her gang were practicing parkour. So, Sam asked to joined, but his willing to joined had been rejected.

                    So, Sam started learn Parkour. First thing he learned was balancing of his body start from lower brick to the higher brick. So, this is the first physics concept. It is easy to balance ourself at a lower brick, but when at a point of higher brick, hard to us including Nikki to balance his body. This is due to the center of gravity. If the center of gravity is low, the body more stable while if the center of gravity is high, the body balance is low and the body less stable.

                   Then, Sam learned jumping. So before he jumped, he bend his legs and jump. So, this is a second physics concept. While Sam bended his legs, actually he experienced potential energy at his legs to make sure he can jump as high as he want. The more he bended his legs, the higher potential energy.

                   

                   Next, the extreme part that Sam learned in parkour were running and jumping from one building to another building. So, before he jumped to another building, he takes a few step backwards to manage the timed before he jump to another side of building. So, this is to measure the time before the flight time. This is because when Sam jumped from building to another building, he experienced projectile motion. Then, when he succeed to jumped to another building, Sam will rolled his body to reduce the impact from the jumping and avoid injuries. So, this is a physics concept where when we increase the time of collision, the impact will be decrease.

               So, at last Sam be the one of the team with Nikki due to his succeed in learned parkour. Then, the other gang teached him more tricks while do parkour, the safety, and the harm things can happen while do a parkour. 

“The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” 

- J.B.S  Haldane -