P2_9 Torque About a Cliffhanger

Abstract

In this paper we attempt to calculate the amount of overhang of the coach in the final scene of ’The Italian Job’, after it skids to a stop over the edge of a cliff, and found the value to be 3.7 m. We also found a relation between the speed at which the amount of tilt of the coach will change, and the distance moved by a man initially at one end of the coach generating a non-zero torque.