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Why Cats Land on Their Feet And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.05.2012

Abbildungen

w. mit 96 Illustrationen

Verlag

Princeton University Press

Seitenzahl

208

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/14/1,3 cm

Gewicht

298 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-14854-0

Beschreibung

Zitat

"Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a collection of fun physical puzzles that will be attractive to a wide spectrum of readers, from teachers to those looking simply for good reading and educational entertainment. Levi's sense of humor and friendly, informal style add to the pleasure of the book. Each of these puzzles, without exception, kept my attention."--Paul J. Nahin, author of Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.05.2012

Abbildungen

w. mit 96 Illustrationen

Verlag

Princeton University Press

Seitenzahl

208

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/14/1,3 cm

Gewicht

298 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-14854-0

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Why Cats Land on Their Feet
  • Chapter 1 Fun with Physical Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Problems 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Background 3 1.3 Sources 3 Chapter 2 Outer Space Paradoxes 5 2.1 A Helium Balloon in a Space Shuttle 5 2.2 Space Navigation without Jets 9 2.3 A Paradox with a Comet 13 2.4 Speeding Up Causes a Slowdown 14 Chapter 3 Paradoxes with Spinning Water 17 3.1 A Puzzle with a Floating Cork 17 3.2 Parabolic Mirrors and Two Kitchen Puzzles 19 3.3 A Cold Parabolic Dish 21 3.4 Boating on a Slope 23 3.5 Navigating with No Engine or Sails 24 3.6 The Icebergs 25 Chapter 4 Floating and Diving Paradoxes 28 4.1 A Bathtub on Wheels 28 4.2 The Tub Problem--In More Depth 30 4.3 How to Lose Weight in a Fraction of a Second 32 4.4 An Underwater Balloon 33 4.5 A Scuba Puzzle 35 4.6 A Weight Puzzle 36 Chapter 5 Flows and Jets 39 5.1 Bernoulli's Law and Water Guns 39 5.2 Sucking on a Straw and the Irreversibility of Time 42 5.3 Bernoulli's Law and Moving Around in a Space Shuttle 44 5.4 A Sprinker Puzzle 45 5.5 Ejecting Water Fast but with Zero Speed? 48 5.6 A Pouring Water Puzzle 49 5.7 A Stirring Paradox 51 5.8 An Inkjet Printer Question 54 5.9 A Vorticity Paradox 55 Chapter 6 Moving Experiences: Bikes, Gymnastics, Rockets 57 6.1 How Do Swings Work? 57 6.2 The Rising Energy Cost 58 6.3 A Gymnast Doing Giants and a Hamster in a Wheel 60 6.4 Controlling a Car on Ice 63 6.5 How Does a Biker Turn? 64 6.6 Speeding Up by Leaning 65 6.7 Can One Gain Speed on a Bike by Body Motion Only? 66 6.8 Gaining Weight on a Motorbike 68 6.9 Feeling the Square in mv2 2 Through the Bike Pedals 69 6.10 A Paradox with Rockets 70 6.11 A Coffee Rocket 72 6.12 Throwing a Ball from a Moving Car 74 Chapter 7 Paradoxes with the Coriolis Force 77 7.1 What Is the Coriolis Force? 77 7.2 Feeling Coriolis in a Boeing 747 79 7.3 Down the Drain with Coriolis 80 7.4 High Pressure and Good Weather 80 7.5 What Causes Trade Winds? 82 Chapter 8 Centrifugal Paradoxes 84 8.1 What's Cheaper: Flying West or East? 84 8.2 A Coriolis Paradox 85 8.3 An Amazing Inverted Pendulum: What Holds It Up? 87 8.4 Antigravity Molasses 91 8.5 The "Proof" That the Sling Cannot Work 92 8.6 A David-Goliath Problem 93 8.7 Water in a Pipe 97 8.8 Which Tension Is Greater? 98 8.9 Slithering Ropes in Weightlessness 100 Chapter 9 Gyroscopic Paradoxes 104 9.1 How Does the Spinning Top Defy Gravity? 104 9.2 Gyroscopes in Bikes 108 9.3 A Rolling Coin 109 9.4 Staying on a Slippery Dome 111 9.5 Finding North with a Gyroscope 113 Chapter 10 Some Hot Stuff and Cool Things 117 10.1 Can Heat Pass from a Colder to a Hotter Object? 117 10.2 A Bike Pump and Molecular Ping-Pong 121 10.3 A Bike Pump as a Heat Pump 122 10.4 Heating a Room in Winter 124 10.5 Freezing Things with a Bike Tire 125 Chapter 11 Two Perpetual Motion Machines 127 11.1 Perpetual Motion by Capillarity 128 11.2 An Elliptical Mirror Perpetuum Mobile 129 Chapter 12 Sailing and Gliding 132 12.1 Shooting Cherry Pits and Sailing 133 12.2 Sailing Straight into the Wind 135 12.3 Biking against the Wind 136 12.4 Soaring without Updrafts 138 12.5 Danger of the Horizontal Shear Wind 141 Chapter 13 The Flipping Cat and the Spinning Earth 142 13.1 How Do Cats Flip to Land on Their Feet? 142 13.2 Can Trade Winds Slow Earth's Rotation? 144 Chapter 14 Miscellaneous 146 14.1 How to Open a Wine Bottle with a Book 146 14.2 :"t's Alive!" 149 14.3 Falling Faster Than g: A Falling Chain "Sucked in" by the Floor 150 14.4 A Man in a Boat with Drag 151 14.5 A "Phantom" Boat: No Wake and No Drag 154 14.6 A Constant-G Roller Coaster 156 14.7 Shooting at a Cart 158 14.8 Computing 2 with a Shoe 159 Appendix 161 A.1 Newton's Laws 161 A.2 Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Work 163 A.2.1 Work 163 A.2.2 Kinetic Energy 165 A.2.3 Potential Energy 166 A.2.4 Conservation of Energy 168 A.3 Center of Mass 169 A.4 Linear Momentum 171 A.5 The Torque 174 A.6 Angular Momentum 175 A.7 Angular Velocity, Centripetal Acceleration 178 A.8 Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces 181 A.9 Coriolis, Centrifugal, and Complex Exponentials 181 A.10 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 184 Bibliography 187 Index 189