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Re: [Phys-l] Newton's First law Demo

On 2010-03-22, at 10:25 AM, Sam Sampere wrote:
Why don't the dishes at the end of the table move at all? Is this faked, or are the dishes and table cloth chosen VERY carefully?


I'm pretty sure that in the shot that shows the motorcycle pulling the cloth away from the table, the cloth itself is entirely CGI. It doesn't appear to maintain a consistent length (although this could be a trick of perspective), and at one point the bystander appears to be slightly inside the cloth (watch the far edge of the cloth right at the beginning of the pull, around 36 seconds into the video).

Mike

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Michael Porter
Colonel By Secondary School
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada