Brainteaser physics : challenging physics puzzlers / Goran Grimvall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimvall, Göran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--Miscellanea.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With Brainteaser Physics, students and veteran physicists alike can sharpen their critical and creative thinking--and have fun at the same time.

Contents:

Intro

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

PROBLEMS

SOLUTIONS

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

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-155) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9170-1

1-4356-9213-6

OCLC:

310117089