Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Blog 13: Grey's Anatomy Physics


This past weekend I was watching some old Grey's Anatomy episodes from season 2. If you watch Grey's Anatomy, I was watching the episode where McSteamy (Dr. Mark Sloane) gets punched in the face by his ex-best friend, McDreamy (Dr. Derek Shepherd). Since McSteamy is a plastic surgeon, he refuses to let an intern sew stitches on his perfect face, so he asks her to get him a mirror so he can do it himself. Unlike the misuse of the mirror in the movie we saw in class, the cameras actually show the right angle of the mirror. Since he is looking at himself in the mirror, we are not supposed to be able to see exactly what he sees, his own reflection. Instead the mirror shows images of x-rays that are in the back of the examination room. I was very surprised to see that they correctly portrayed this mirror scene on my favorite show!

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