Introductions[]
An entry to the NF Project.
This calculation is not mine, but Deer Lord's. Full credits to him.
The Calculation[]
A simple enough calc, and I was bored. And yeah, I know the movie sucks, but mags is far from being the reason.
[YOUTUBE]ITMren3I3WM[/YOUTUBE]
"Charles always wanted to build bridges"
Calc:
I'm going to calc kinetic energy required to move the bridge like that.
According to google maps the distance is about 4500m from the bridge to the point seen in the video.
Magneto starts moving the bridge towards the island on 0:40 and it comes to a standstill at 1:20, so the time frame is 40 seconds.
v=d/t= 4500/40 = 112.5 m/s
Mass of the golden gate bridge = 380,800,000 kg according to this: http://goldengatebridge.org/research/factsGGBDesign.php (I used the updated mass excluding anchorages as magneto only ripped out the bridge itself)
Ke= 1/2*m*v^2= 1/2*380800000*(112.5)^2 = 2409750000000 J or 575.944 tons of TNT