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

Why Cats Land on Their Feet : : And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles / / Mark Levi.

Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth's rotation in an airplane? Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a compendium of paradoxes and puzzles that readers can solve using their own physical intuition. And the surprisin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Levi, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 104 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. Fun with Physical Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Problems
  • 2. Outer Space Paradoxes
  • 3. Paradoxes with Spinning Water
  • 4. Floating and Diving Paradoxes
  • 5. Flows and Jets
  • 6. Moving Experiences: Bikes, Gymnastics, Rockets
  • 7. Paradoxes with the Coriolis Force
  • 8. Centrifugal Paradoxes
  • 9. Gyroscopic Paradoxes
  • 10. Some Hot Stuff and Cool Things
  • 11. Two Perpetual Motion Machines
  • 12. Sailing and Gliding
  • 13. The Flipping Cat and the Spinning Earth
  • 14. Miscellaneous
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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