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Brainteaser physics : challenging physics puzzlers / Göran Grimvall.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Grimvall, Göran
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Physics > Miscellanea.
Physics.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Ten hits
  • Dinghy in pool
  • Ice in water
  • Accident in aqueduct
  • Floating candle
  • Running in the rain
  • Reaching out
  • Resistor cube
  • One, two, three, infinity
  • Lost energy
  • Simple timetable
  • 2. No math required
  • Moving backward?
  • Heating water
  • Bright lamps?
  • Low pressure
  • Site for harbor
  • More gas?
  • High tension
  • Ocean surface
  • Mariotte's bottle
  • 3. Are you sure?
  • Bicycle on a rope
  • Boats in a lock
  • Humming transformer
  • What is the charge?
  • Two wooden blocks
  • Shot in a pot
  • Filling a barrel
  • Tube with sand
  • Sauna energy
  • Slapstick
  • 4. Forces and currents
  • Separated boxes
  • Dropped books
  • The egg of Columbus
  • Helium or hydrogen in the balloon?
  • Lightbulb found in a drugstore?
  • Bright or dark?
  • Yin and Yang
  • Rise and fall of a ball
  • Elevator accident
  • 5. Not exact but still relevant
  • What is your volume?
  • On the move
  • Shot put and pole vault
  • Record stadium
  • Grains of sand
  • Cooling coffee
  • Time for contact
  • Socrates' blood
  • 6. Challenges for your creativity
  • Iron bars
  • Faulty balance
  • Greek geometry
  • The sugar box
  • The catenary
  • False impressions
  • Testing the hammer
  • Which way?
  • Three switches
  • Pulse beats
  • Fake energy statistics
  • Coda
  • Further reading
  • Index.

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