XKCD's new What If? page ("Answering your hypothetical questions
with physics, every Tuesday") answers the burning question, "How
much Force power can Yoda output?" Here's a part of the answer,
but you'll have to click through for the rest: First we need to
know how heavy the ship was. The X-Wing’s mass has never been
canonically established, but its length has—16 meters. An F-22
is 19 meters long and weighs 19,700 lbs, so scaling down from
this gives an estimate for the X-Wing of about 12,000 lbs (5
metric tons).mx=mf22∗(1619)3≈5300kg Next, we need to know how
fast it was rising. I went over footage of the sc ene and timed
the X-Wing's rate of ascent as it was emerging from the water.
The front landing strut rises out of the water in about three
and a half seconds, and I estimated the strut to be 1.4 meters
long (based on a scene in A New Hope where a crew member
squeezes past it), which tells us the X-Wing was rising at 0.39
m/s. Follow the link for more.