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This programme investigates the real story behind a memorable movie moment. Could a bus really jump a gap in the freeway?
This programme investigates the real story behind a memorable movie moment. Could a bus really jump a gap in the freeway?
| Series: | Hollywood science |
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| First transmission date: | 2001 |
| Published: | 2001 |
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| Duration: | 00:09:00 |
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| Producer: | Mark Bridge |
| Contributors: | Jonathan Hare; Robert Llewellyn |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/science/hollywood_science/ |
| Keyword(s): | Distance; Incline; Speed |
| Subject terms: | Research |
| Footage description: | Footage - Titles- Suburban detached house. Split screen title shots of 2 presenters performing various experiments. Presenters in front room. Film Footage: Lift falling to floor. Panicked people inside. Presenters in front room. Film Footage: Coach speeding along, car alongside. Car hits ramp and jumps high alongside bus. (00'45") Crashes. Explosion. Presenters watching film on TV. Film Footage: Bus jumps over gap in freeway. Presenters in the garden with mock up of jump. Wooden frame, sloped at one end to a fat. The flat has a 40cm gap. Bus is launched from same position on sloping track. Truck let down slope. Doesn't make jump. View from 'bus cam'. Film Footage: Bus driver accelerates for incline. Bus jumps up and over gap. Presenters. Create small incline on model. Launch bus. Jumps gap! Discussion. (04'00") Weights placed on bus to make heavier. Bus launched from same position. Jumps same distance! Detail views of screwing in screws / banging with hammers / cutting with saws. Bigger more powerful model shown. Catapult assembly for launching truck faster than previously. Bus placed on catapult. Launched. Distance bus jumped is measured. Detail of 'pin' used to lock 'catapult' launcher. Detail of circuit to measure bus speed. (06'00") Bus launched several times. Distances and Speed written down. View of speed/distance graph with line approximated. Can see curve slope increases in proportion to the square of the speed launched at. Film Footage: Detail showing small ramp at front of coach as begins jump, then disappears as back wheels pass over it. (07'20") View of graph with distance plot extended to show distance at a speed of 50mph. Distance is just about 50ft. Presenters discuss. Award rating of 8/10. |
| Master spool number: | BOU10676 |
| Production number: | FEUS176Y |
| Videofinder number: | 6860 |
| Available to public: | no |
