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Why toast lands jelly-side down : zen and the art of physics demonstrations /
Physics has the reputation of being difficult to understand and remote from everyday life. Robert Ehrlich, however, has spent much of his career disproving these stereotypes. In the long-awaited sequel to Turning the World Inside Out and 175 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations, he provides a new col...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1997.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Why toast lands jelly-side down : |b zen and the art of physics demonstrations / |c Robert Ehrlich. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. How to Design Simple Physics Demos -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Designing your own simple demos -- 1.3 Places to get ideas for designing demos -- 1.4 Starting points in designing a ""new"" demo -- 1.5 Desirable criteria for simple demos -- 1.6 Good pedagogy -- 1.7 Undesirable features -- 1.8 Getting the physics right -- 1.9 A case study in improving a demo -- 1.10 Importance of being quantitative -- 2. Newton's Laws -- 2.1 The missing circular arc | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.2 Estimating the net force on a moving book -- 2.3 Force, mass, and acceleration -- 2.4 Picking yourself up by your bootstraps -- 2.5 Deep knee bends on a bathroom scale -- 2.6 A ""Monkey-Hunter"" variation -- 2.7 Tearing a card into three pieces -- 2.8 Timing the fall of dropped objects -- 2.9 Recoil force on a bent straw -- 2.10 Magnet symmetry and Newton's third law -- 2.11 Weighing a swinging pendulum -- 2.12 Weighing an hourglass -- 2.13 Terminal velocity of falling coffee filters -- 3. Statics, Equilibrium, and Accelerometers -- 3.1 Your back to the wall -- 3.2 Avalanches in a sand pile | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3.3 Vibrating electric razor on an inclined plane -- 3.4 A simple accelerometer for use on the OHP -- 3.5 A second accelerometer for the OHP -- 3.6 A vibrating ruler accelerometer -- 3.7 Static equilibrium of a suspended slinky -- 3.8 A row of magnetic marbles on an incline -- 3.9 A 1000 g accelerometer -- 3.10 High friction Atwood's machine -- 3.11 Ladder against the wall -- 4. Orbital Motion and Angular Momentum -- 4.1 Effect of many sideways impacts -- 4.2 Tangential speed at the top of a wheel -- 4.3 Pulling a spool with a thread -- 4.4 Colliding magnetic marbles -- 4.5 A precessing orbit | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4.6 Ball on a rotating turntable -- 4.7 Hero's engine made from a soda can -- 4.8 Inverse lawn sprinklers or anti-Hero engine -- 4.9 Spinning a penny -- 4.10 A fan of angular momentum conservation -- 4.11 The matchbook and the keys -- 4.12 Jelly-side down -- 4.13 String unwinding from a pole -- 5. Conservation of Momentum and Energy -- 5.1 Momentum conservation on a ruler -- 5.2 Walking the boat -- 5.3 Colliding coins and transverse momentum -- 5.4 Projectile trajectory on an incline -- 5.5 Ballpoint pen test of energy conservatio -- 5.6 Inelastic collisions using ""Newton's Cradle | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5.7 Coefficient of restitution -- 5.8 The interrupted pendulum -- 5.9 Dropping two rolls of toilet paper -- 6. Fluids -- 6.1 Volume is not conserved -- 6.2 Floating ice cubes -- 6.3 Buoyant force on your finger -- 6.4 Four sucking problems -- 6.5 Egg in a water stream -- 6.6 Maximum height of a siphon -- 6.7 Narrowing of a descending water stream -- 6.8 Bobbing cylinder -- 6.9 Propeller on a stick -- 6.10 Weighing a balloon when filled and empty -- 7. Thermodynamics -- 7.1 When to add the cream to your coffee -- 7.2 Heating black and silvered bodies -- 7.3 Heating by convection versus conduction | |
| 520 | |a Physics has the reputation of being difficult to understand and remote from everyday life. Robert Ehrlich, however, has spent much of his career disproving these stereotypes. In the long-awaited sequel to Turning the World Inside Out and 175 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations, he provides a new collection of physics demonstrations and experiments that prove that physics can, in fact, be "made simple." Intentionally using "low tech" and inexpensive materials from everyday life, Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down makes key principles of physics surprisingly easy to understand. After laying out the basic principles of what constitutes a successful demonstration, Ehrlich provides more than 100 examples. Some of the more intriguing include: Terminal Velocity of Falling Coffee Filters; Spinning a Penny; Dropping Two Rolls of Toilet Paper; Avalanches in a Sand Pile; When to Add the Cream to Your Coffee; Deep Knee Bends on a Bathroom Scale; Recoil Force on a Bent Straw; Swinging Your Arms While Walking; Estimating the Net Force on a Moving Book; and, of course, Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down. The book begins with a practical introduction on how to design physics demonstrations. The benefits of designing one's own "demos" are numerous, but primary among them is an increased understanding of basic physics. For many people who teach the principles of physics, demonstrations seem dauntingly complex, filled with hard-to-find equipment and too many possibilities for failure. The demonstrations described in this book are exactly the opposite. Ehrlich describes them with characteristic candor: "You can fit many of them in your pocket, bring them to your class without any set-up required, and best of all, you need not fear that your demo will more likely illustrate Murphy's laws rather than Newton's." For anyone with even the slightest interest in physics, Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down is filled with learning opportunities. For everyone who is studying physics or teaching the subject at any level, from amateur scientists to professional teachers, it is an essential resource. | ||
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