"Gravity" Film Study

In this assessment, you will be looking at some of the action scenes portrayed in the movie "Gravity", and investigating how real life physics principles apply to these scenes. More details are given in the task below, including a marking scheme.

You are required to write a report containing your findings. This report should be approximately 3 to 4 pages in length.

• Gravity Wiki: Inaccuracies in Gravity

• Science ABC: How scientifically accurate is the movie Gravity?

• Space Answers: 16 Things Gravity got wrong

• Medium: Does the climax of the movie Gravity violate simple physics?

• HyperPhysics: Conservation laws

• The Physics Classroom: Mathematics of satellite motion