{"id":2449,"date":"2009-11-27T08:09:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T00:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:31:44","slug":"friday-math-movie-science-of-watchmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-science-of-watchmen-2449","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - Science of Watchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week's movie from the University of Minnesota has attracted over 1.5 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>It probably makes more sense if you've seen the movie <em>The Watchmen<\/em>, but it is still an interesting analysis and has some nice math, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/trigonometric-graphs\/6-composite-trigonometric-graphs.php\">composite trigonometric curves<\/a> (adding 2 sine curves that are out of sync so that they cancel themselves out).<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zmj1rpzDRZ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/collegewebeditor.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/24\/higher-ed-tv-how-the-university-of-minnesota-got-more-than-15-million-views-in-less-than-2-months-with-one-of-their-youtube-videos\/\">Elizabeth Giorgi from University of Minnesota<\/a> on the popularity of <em>Science of Watchmen<\/em>. There are screen shots of the YouTube statistics for the movie (views over time, peak in viewership interest and so on).<\/p>\n<p>There's some interesting math and statistics involved here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-science-of-watchmen-2449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/11\/watchmen2.jpg\" alt=\"watchmen\" title=\"watchmen\" width=\"128\" height=\"101\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a> This video explains some of the math and science behind the movie <i>Watchmen<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}