Some people may not like the idea but it suits my taste very well. To what extent, I dont know but there will definitely be one, rest assured.
Archimedes mirror movie#
Nevertheless it appears that a much smaller minor corps-say 50 men- could inflict severe burns upon selected enemy personnel. There will be an Archimedes Death Ray / Burning Mirror Assembly in the new movie 'Trust me', as Henry Jones Junior once said. This is such a poor use of manpower and resources that it is concluded this classic story is no more than a myth. As a result of this divergence, the reflectivity of bronze mirrors, and the angles involved, it is concluded that the combined effort of some 440 men, each wielding a 1 m 2 metal mirror, would only just begin to ignite a 1*0.5 m area of a wooden hull at a distance of 50 m. Comte de Buffon (1707-88) on Archimedes and the invention of longdistance burning mirrors as an informative document on Buffon himself as well as on. Reconstruction of Archimedes burning mirror Archimedes (c287 212 BC) Greek mathematician and inventor Re Image description: Select image license: Show photos. Its diameter is then given by 0.009* separation between mirror and receiving surface, with the intensity controlled by the area of the mirror. Some authors of Antiquity (Silius Italicus, Lucian and Galen) state that Archimedes destroyed Roman ships with fire, but offer no other indications, while Apuleius says Archimedes wrote a text on the properties of the mirrors.
Archimedes mirror Patch#
This patch becomes essentially circular when the equivalent 'f number' of the system is >or=500. This is the most famous and controversial device traditionally attributed to Archimedes. It is established that the patch of reflected sunlight is always greater in size than the mirror, and so (apart from reflection loss) must always be of less intensity than the incident radiation.
This calculation necessitated an initial investigation of the way in which sunlight is reflected by a plane mirror when the divergence induced by the real angular diameter of the Sun is taken into account. The tradition that Archimedes destroyed the Roman fleet at the siege of Syracuse in 213 BC by the application of directed solar radiant heat is examined by assessing the area of reflective surface that would be required to concentrate sufficient energy to ignite wood at a distance of 50 m. which raises water, still used in developing countries, known as the Archimedes screw.