Brainteaser physics : challenging physics puzzlers / / Goran Grimvall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973303103321
• Autore: Grimvall Göran
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-8018-9170-1; 1-4356-9213-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Disciplina: 530
• Soggetti: Physics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-155) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- PROBLEMS -- SOLUTIONS -- 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 -- PROBLEMS -- SOLUTIONS -- 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 -- PROBLEMS -- SOLUTIONS -- 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 -- PROBLEMS -- SOLUTIONS -- 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 -- PROBLEMS -- SOLUTIONS -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: With Brainteaser Physics, students and veteran physicists alike can sharpen their critical and creative thinking--and have fun at the same time.