SAN ANDREAS

San Andreas is a catastrophic film directed by Brad Peyton and written by Carlton Cuse. Its plot centers on how people reacted towards a natural disaster such as places where tectonic plates collide, pushing one plate under another and deforming the sea floor to create tsunamis. It also shown that the important role of seismologist during the earthquake, predicting the coming disaster. So, one of the physics’ related scene was during the tandem-jump. This tandem-jump divided into a few phases which were exiting the plane, skillfully free fall, parachute formation, step and landing. As Emma and Ray fall, they accelerate downward and gaining speed. The increased speed also increases air resistance which is the same thing as drag. Parachute is the most important thing during the skydiving since it used to slow down a fall through the air. Malfunction of parachute can cause a fatal injury to the jumper. Another physic’s related scene was the tsunami. Tsunamis are obviously waves and as such they follow the fundamentals of waves. These basics are as follows; the wavelength is the length from crest to crest, and the amplitude is the distance from the bottom of the trough to the top of the crest. The period is the length of time for one crest to travel the distance to where the other crest was. The velocity of a tsunami is dependent on only one factor, the depth of the ocean over which it is traveling.