Brainteaser physics : challenging physics puzzlers /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
