| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 162 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Annotation Does a glass of ice water filled to the brim overflow when the ice melts? Does the energy inside a sauna increase when you heat it up? What's the best way to cool your coffeeadding the creamer first or last? These and other challenging puzzlers provide a freshand funapproach to learning real physics. Presenting both classic and new problems, Brainteaser Physics challenges readers to use imagination and basic physics principles to find the answers. Gran Grimvall provides detailed and accessible explanations of the solutions, sometimes correcting the standard explanations, sometimes putting a new twist on them. He provides diagrams and equations where appropriate and ends each problem by discussing a specific concept or offering an extra challenge. With Brainteaser Physics, students and veteran physicists alike can sharpen their critical and creative thinkingand have fun at the same time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Physics -- Miscellanea
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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Physics
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435692138 |
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1435692136 |
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9780801891700 |
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0801891701 |
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