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Daylonious
Señor Pantalones
Well, in that Air Jaws special on Discovery Channel they had 15-18 foot sharks fully breach out of the water. I think they estimated the speed at something like 30 mph to achieve this.
Now if you figure all sharks could do that, Bruce going 30 mph has a lot of inertia.
30mph (converted to kmh (*1.609 then to meters per second) = 13 meters per second
so
(momentum = mass * velocity) a 6000 pound monster movie shark or 2700kg * 13 m/s gives a momentum of roughly 35000kg m/s of momentum
How much does Quint's boat weigh? 20 tons? (have NO idea when it comes to boats) In order to move the boat, bruce would have to overcome it's resting state.
20 tons = 40,000 pounds = 18,000 kg.
If Bruce ran full speed into the boat, (assuming no force wasted and all energy transferred to the boat) - he'd have roughly twice what was necessary to overcome it's mass.
So I *think* that means that the end result would be the boat going roughly 6.5 m/s or 14 mph after the collision.
Lotsa assumptions (shark doesn't get tired, no water resistance, etc..)
You'd definitely know he was knocking on your door...
Same thing for the barrels, at full speed he could take them under probably a bunch more - til he got tired anyway..
I'm not the best mathmatician and I'm sure other people can figure this out better, but I'm pretty sure he could tow the boat.
D.
Now if you figure all sharks could do that, Bruce going 30 mph has a lot of inertia.
30mph (converted to kmh (*1.609 then to meters per second) = 13 meters per second
so
(momentum = mass * velocity) a 6000 pound monster movie shark or 2700kg * 13 m/s gives a momentum of roughly 35000kg m/s of momentum
How much does Quint's boat weigh? 20 tons? (have NO idea when it comes to boats) In order to move the boat, bruce would have to overcome it's resting state.
20 tons = 40,000 pounds = 18,000 kg.
If Bruce ran full speed into the boat, (assuming no force wasted and all energy transferred to the boat) - he'd have roughly twice what was necessary to overcome it's mass.
So I *think* that means that the end result would be the boat going roughly 6.5 m/s or 14 mph after the collision.
Lotsa assumptions (shark doesn't get tired, no water resistance, etc..)
You'd definitely know he was knocking on your door...
Same thing for the barrels, at full speed he could take them under probably a bunch more - til he got tired anyway..
I'm not the best mathmatician and I'm sure other people can figure this out better, but I'm pretty sure he could tow the boat.
D.
