a 500 pound anvil is traveling at 5 million miles per hour, or

>>8730444
2.36 tsar bombas or 5.7x10^14 KJ

>>8731387
I did this quickly during lecture so check me

>>8731391
Checked myself. It's actually .00236 tsar bombas or 5.7x10^11 KJ

>>8731387
>>8731402
Wait I did the math and I got 236 Tsar Bombas or 5.7x10^16 KJ

>pounds
>miles

was that supposed to be a bait thread

>>8731406
Sorry it's actually 23600 tsar bombas

>>8730444
Well it's solidly non-reltivistic, so you can just use [eqn] \frac { 1 } { 2 } m v^2 = 5.7 \times 10^{11} ~ \text {kJ} [/eqn] the Tsar bomb released about [eqn] E_{Tb} = 2.4 \times 10^{17} ~ \text { kJ } \\ \implies \frac { E_{anvil} } { E_{Tb} } \approx 3 \times 10^{-3} [/eqn] So about three-thousands as powerful as a Tsar bomb.

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>>8731418
We got different blast yeilds

>>8731422
No I just wrote down the yield wrong, it's in Jules, not kJ as indicated.

>>8731408
Maybe. Most anvils don't weigh 15 slugs.
>>8730444
60 billion foot pounds, which is 60000 pounds of black powder, I think. Can somepony check my math?

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>>8731425
Used an internet calculator this time and I think we both got he anvil's energy wrong?

>>8731443
I quite honestly have no idea what that's calculating. But it isn't the kinetic energy of your inputs.

Ok the kinetic energy (relativistic correctures can be neglected here) amounts to 5.56*10^14 J, or 0.0026 Tsar Bombs. Furthermore, assuming the average human has 40 litres of liquid in his body, it would take roughly 1.17*10^6 J to boil all of it, which would most likely kill the human.
Now, assuming that the ground will not stay stable no matter the force and that the kinetic energy aquired by the anvil will spread evenly in form of a half-sphere, we can estimate a lethal radius of ca. 13km. This is under the (large) assumption that a human has an area of ca. 2 m^2 when standing.
If you drop this anvil in an area as densely populated as New York city, with a human density of 0.01 Humans/m^2 while neglecting the effects of buildings on the lethal radius, you could kill 5.3*10^7 humans, which amounts to 8.83 hitlers. (1 hitler being 6*10^6 deaths). With this you would truly be worse than hitler.
Congratulations.

>>8731644
thank you xkcd