{"id":909,"date":"2022-07-13T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2022-08-13T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T20:26:11","slug":"scholars-ponder-top-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Scholars Ponder Top Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The movie Top Gun: Maverick is breaking box office records. Here are some questions that online scholars may ponder to develop their understanding of the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Mathematics.&nbsp; How do the box office receipts compare to other movies? What does it mean to adjust the receipts for inflation?<\/li><li>Physics. Which flying maneuvers generate forces on the pilots and why? What kinds of forces are generated? Why do some airplanes fly faster than others?<\/li><li>Computer science. How does the missile keep itself pointed at the targeting laser dot?<\/li><li>Biology. Why do the pilots experience physical distress when subjected to the forces generated while flying?<\/li><li>History. Which real country is most closely analogous to the fictional one that is attacked in the movie?<\/li><li>Philosophy. When (if ever) is it morally permissible for one country to go to war with another?<\/li><li>Geography. Why do the locations in the movie display such different landforms and vegetation?<\/li><li>Writing. What is the most memorable part of the story in the movie? What issues arise when you are writing a sequel?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Have fun discussing among yourselves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie Top Gun: Maverick is breaking box office records. Here are some questions that online scholars may ponder to develop their understanding of the film. Mathematics.&nbsp; How do the box office receipts compare to other movies? What does it mean to adjust the receipts for inflation? Physics. Which flying maneuvers generate forces on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,57,10,9,48,14,29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","category-geography","category-hist","category-math","category-philosophy","category-phys","category-programming","category-writ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}