Outline of the Second Term Paper

Conservation of Energy

Scenes: The Reward High Five scene!
             Rango the highway scene, tank falls out of the car (action/reaction?)
             Adventure Time Season 4 Hot to the Touch  Flame Princess is constantly burning, but never                  losing mass,
         

Thesis: The Conservation of Energy is a principle of physics that is often broken in cinema to further the story.

In Adventure Time Flame Princess is made of fire. Fire needs a constant source of fuel and oxygen to continue burning, She can grow to large sizes without consuming any fuel, and she can spew sustained flames from her body without a noticeable change to her form. She must be powered by magic as is much of the show.

A more realistic scene. In Rango, the yet unnamed hero is knocked out of the back of a family car. The car had run over an armadillo that caused his tank to fall out of the back window. Were this to happen in real life, it would mean the car was speeding up rapidly while the lizard tank's inertia kept it going the same speed. This is not the case because the car is swerving and pulling over, which means it is slowing down. So the tank lost some kinetic energy while it was in the air.

In The Reward short film, the hero character realize their treasure all along was friendship, and they do a high-five so epic is causes an explosion seen from space, larger than any nuclear weapon. There is no fuel for this explosion, other than friendship, which is a not a physical object, so this clearly breaks the law of the Conservation of Energy.