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Captain America's Shield Would Be Lethal | Physics vs Film

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Channel: Martin Archer · 2016 · Science & Technology

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What would the consequences of a real vibranium shield be on Captain America's foes? Martin finds out that it's not quite as wholesome as Cap appears!

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00:27 Properties of Vibranium
01:06 Some Assumptions
01:46 Vibrational Energy and Equipartition
02:56 What Would the Shield do to You?
03:58 Taking you down to Absolute Zero
04:54 Zero Point Energy


Links for more information

Vibranium
http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Vibranium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibranium
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89319/what-exactly-is-vibranium-able-or-not-able-to-absorb

Equipartition
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Core/Physical_Chemistry/Statistical_Mechanics/Equipartition_Theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipartition_theorem

Degrees of Freedom of Water
http://www.tampa.phys.ucl.ac.uk/new/molecular/water.html
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Core/Physical_Chemistry/Spectroscopy/Vibrational_Spectroscopy/Vibrational_Modes

Water Specific Heat Capacity and Latent Heat of Fusion
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-thermal-properties-d_162.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDsWSugN7cA

Debye Model of Solids and Ice at Low Temperatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debye_model
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/33/6/10.1063/1.1731497
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/ice.htm

Ice Structure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ih
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/hexagonal_ice.html

Ice Zero Point Energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oC941a8lXWIC

Cap's Shield a Capacitor?
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/is-captain-americas-shield-a-capacitor/


Thanks to Dr Kostya Trachenko (Queen Mary University of London) who's recent work into the vacuum energy of quantum liquid's inspired this video
http://jphysplus.iop.org/2016/03/24/vacuum-energy-gets-flexible/

Music by The U.S. Army Band, Ross Bugden, Silent Partner, Free Stock Music

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