The Physics of Ezra and Sabine’s Force Jump
I’m not going to give away too many details, but there’s a cool scene in Ahsoka Epsiode 8. The basic idea is that Ezra is trying to make a jump into the bay of a Star Destroyer. Of course he can use the force to get a longer jump — but it’s just not enough. So, he gets a force boost from Sabine who is still on the landing platform.
That’s all the info you are going to get (but let’s be honest — if you haven’t watched Ahsoka yet, then you probably aren’t concerned with spoilers). But here’s what I like about this move. The episode gives this great view from the side. It’s like perfect for video analysis. Of course that’s just what I’m going to do.
Video Analysis of Ezra’s Force Jump
With video analysis, you can mark the location of an object in each frame of the video. If you know the “size” of the frame (pixel to meter conversion) and the time between frames (from the frame rate) then you get x,y, and t data. Nice.
In this video, the camera is looking perpendicular to the motion so that Ezra is at the same distance away (so we don’t have to worry about motion in that direction). Also, the camera doesn’t pan or zoom — which just makes everything easier.
There is one big problem — I don’t know the distance scale of the video. However, if I assume…
