Physics of Iron Man

Looking at the physics of iron man! Is what we see on the screen in the Iron Man movie POSSIBLE according to physics? Can we imagine having an iron man suit one day?
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[nishasura]

Become a very big fan of yours from last some days.I like the way you are explaining the physics behind IronMan armor(India).

[demon_srt]

Awsome physics ...but there is no lyks.... can't understand why....but his explanation is very very fantastic

[MichaelKantormusic]

I have always wondered how Star Trek completely ignores the twin paradox hauling around at light speed. LOL

[ebiven]

What if the shell just glanced off him and wasn't a direct hit, or what if the shell exploded on impact

[insanityvault]

This was interesting 🤔, I've known this but to see the detailed math being discussed is cool. Crazy concept but hear me out, if he was in say the hulk smasher suite and was wearing a magnetic scuba suit and the power of the magnetic field can be adjusted by Tony and or the computer, if he was roughly a ft away from the outside suit everyone sees I'm referring to the way he would fit inside. I think that would give the room for physics to be played with. Rocket hits the suit the front sides magnets go to whatever required power and takes the hit rocking itself around. This doesn't help if Tony is already moving fast but your example was referencing if he was still when he took the hit. It wouldn't help with falling or stopping but it could work if Tony himself wasn't already at a high motion. Or I'm just crazy 🤪 but I liked the video gave my brain something to think about 🤣

[redsolver]

can inertial regulator be use to cancel out the momentum conservation ??

[markuseberlein]

I know that superconductors are physically possible, but with a reactor power output level close to a nuclear powerplant, if there are any power transmission losses, how fast would it heat him up?

[davis.fourohfour]

The arc reactor is a cold fusion reactor. Tony needed the palladium for it from a missile he disassembled. Famously, palladium is the the matrix for one type of a CF reactor.
How he CHANNELS that juice is what the real mystery is.
Peter David, the writer of the novelization, tossed in inertial dampers inside the suit. I assume a version of the repulsor fields, what we used to call pressor beams. Every particle in the volume of the suit in an adamantine field.

[NefruSimons]

I mean, they could have make the shell do a glancing blow, lets say from a top, basicly sliding on his armor, but enough to destabilise his course and then as he would keep enough forward momentum let him "slide" crash on some sand or whatever and it would be ok. But the way it is in moovie, yeap he dead.
:D

[SimonBenjamin]

If you'd me to make a "Physics of the Hulk" video then Like this comment!

[AviationAustin]

I loved your take on Ironman. I really admire how he was a science based hero. I did a video reaction to the aerospace elements of this film. But I'm really glad to covered the arc reactor. That's definitely something I didn't want to get into. I'm more of an aero guy.

[abrokeengineer]

This awesome educational video from an Oxford professor only have less than 500 views? This is ridiculous. GJ tho.

[KingArthur]

I have a two-year physics degree myself, and this is awesome. Iron Man is my favorite superhero. My favorite fictional character of all time is Doctor Doom.

[omyadav]

Tony stark: You can't understand my Math

Meanwhile Prof. Benjamin: hold my beer

[dybiosol]

18:06 Distributed thrusters is actually a thing that Tony adds in his Mk-2 suit once he comes back home (probably because of the massive injury he faced after the crash landing of the crude Mk-1 suit). If you nitpick through the first montage of him training to use his new suit, you will see the initial pre-flight caliberation sequence that Jarvis runs during the suit up. Everytime Tony enters his flight mode or uses his palm thrusters for offensive blasts, the distributed thrusters in this back also light up and fire off for counterbalance. These tiny thrusters, accompanied by tiny moveable winglets, from my observation are present near his abdomen, higher back, middle back, thighs and leg calves which help him in his flight balance and save him from momentum impacts.

[MonkeyDLuffy-cmfm]

Just to clarify one thing. When Tony explained his reactor’s power it was the first one and in the movie he upgrades it and the bad guy stole the upgraded one and he had to use the old one that he made in the cave and the A.I said that one is not designed to fly.

Also the tank hitting Tony it doesn’t show it was direct most likely it just grazed him and sent him off balance.

Thanks for the math you doing amazing video by the way I love it.

[boltcatt]

BRILLIANTT, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO PROFESSOR.
I am a high school student from Indonesia and im really interested in physics. I wanna ask professor, is it possible to make a flying tech, imagine its like a long shoes that at the calves part i make a slim hole that fits aerodinamicly with my legs and works like a vacuum cleaner, sucking air in big mass and push the sucked air from my foot to act as a booster so that i can fly, and also make the same tech in my arms to control the direction when im flying. I cant stop thinking about this theory lately but i need a professional to guide me, i hope i will be as smart as you and you responded to this thoughts, thank you professor.

[patrickalexis]

This video, is to much thinking for the average person.

[milolomi]

Hello
This video was a 3 in 1
science
english (i'm french)
and superhero story
I've learned so much in 1 video... Thanks alot !

[ukaszjasinski]

Great job professor but where’s physics in incredible Hulk video? ;)