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Brainteaser physics: challenging physics puzzlers
Brainteaser physics: challenging physics puzzlers
Author
Grimvall, Göran
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
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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.
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Electronic book
Electronic books
Energy
General
Mechanics
Physics
Physics -- Miscellanea
SCIENCE
SCIENCE -- Energy
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General
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9780801885129
9780801885112
9780801891700
9781435692138
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