Star Wars: Video Analysis

If Isaac Newton was to watch the clip from Star Wars, there would be many reasons why he would be sad. Many aspects of the clip go against his laws, Therefore, making Newton sad.
One example is that in the video there are ships flying. However, because there is no air in space, there is no air resistance, meaning there is nothing pushing against the ships so that they could fly. In Newton’s first law, he states that “Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or uniform of motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impresses thereon” It is the law of inertia. This scene goes against this law because there is nothing pushing on the ship to make it move. So the movie implies that there is air in space, when really there isn’t.
Another reason why Newton would be sad is that in the clip little robots appear to be flying backwards towards the camera, in a fast state. This is not possible because there isn’t any air in space to push it backwards. The movie makes it look like there is. In the article Inertia- Forever, it states “Simply put, it means that an object will continue doing whatever it is doing (resting …show more content…
In the article “How Roller Coasters Work”, its says “Inertia is the reluctance of a body (such as a coaster train) to change its state of motion.” So, the robot should have stayed in its state because there was no force acting on it. The ships are quite obviously in space, and because they are in space there is no gravity unless they are by a very large object that has a large mass. If they were by a very large object with a big mass, then it might be reasonable to say that the robots was being pulled by gravity towards the large object, but there was no large object to be seen. Therefore, it could not have been suddenly pulled away the way it