Group+2+Script+Draft

S: Everyone’s seen cars jump over broken bridges in the movies. It’s always an exciting part of action movies, but does it actually work? S: I guess it all depends on a large amount of variables right? S: That’s true. Ok, so we have a car traveling at an initial velocity, it’ll travel towards a bridge with a gap in it, and we’ll see if it clears it. S: But there’s a bunch of ways we can approach this. S: Ok, what do you have in mind? S: Well we’re going to do this on a scaled down version right? S: Unless you’re willing to let us use your car? S: Ok, so we have to make sure our weight ratio is similar so our velocity calculations are reasonable. S: Right and we need to start the car on a fixed ramp with a marked point to always have the same initial velocity. S: Makes sense, we should also test different inclines of the damaged bridge. S: Perfect, so we could try angles of ??? S: We also have to keep in mind the friction of the initial ramp right? S: Well, as long as we always start from the same spot, the friction and everything should be the same, so we can count friction as negligible. S: So what are we waiting for, let’s try this out! S: Let’s go. S: Here we have an inclined plane and a toy car, now everything has been created to scale. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: This ramp will give the car the initial velocity so that it is mimicking a real car as it approaches the broken bridge edge. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: The velocity will be measured by this sensor and recorded onto the laptop. This allows for accurate numbers. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: We will be trying this experiment with four different angles for the inclined plane and each time with six different angles for the bridge edge. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: This will give us multiple situations that happen in movies and see if in fact it is possible to jump a broken bridge. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[Free talk in experiment/stating hypothesis] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: So you already understand the gist of our experiment, to find out whether a car can figuratively speaking “fly” over a missing part of a bridge when it is broken straight or at an angle. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: You will see what we mean by that later on. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: But before we begin with that, do you think it will work? We do. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: And you'll definitely find out the answer soon. But before we start the experiment I would like to add that nobody was injured during this experiment, apart from some microbes and such perhaps. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: By the way, please do not try this at home. At least not with actual cars and actual people. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S: But now to the actual experiment. Let's see if James Bond (or whoever you want to name) will survive his crazy jump or if he will plummet to the ground. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
 * <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mythbusters Script ( S = Peter, Tania or Ben talking) **
 * <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Intro **
 * <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Description of experiment: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Conclusion **