Why cats land on their feet: and 76 other physical paradoxes and puzzles
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
1 Fun
with Physical
Paradoxes, Puzzles,
and
1.1
Problems
Introduction
1
1
1.2
Background
3
Ì.3
Sources
3
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
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
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
CONTENTS
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
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 ~ 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
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
VIII
CONTENTS
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
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
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
11
Two Perpetual Motion Machines
127
11.1
Perpetual Motion by Capillarity
128
11.2
An Elliptical Mirror
Perpetuum
Mobile
129
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
ix
CONTENTS
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
Ί4
Miscellaneous
146
14.1
How to Open a Wine Bottle with a Book
146
14.2
It 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
157
14.8
Computing V2 with a Shoe
159
Appendix
161
A.I 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
180
A.
9
Coriolis, Centrifugal, and Complex
Exponentials
181
A.
10
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
184
Bibliography
187
Index
189
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