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The Flying Circus of Physics |  | Author: Jearl Walker
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 185272
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0471762733
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780471762737
ASIN: 0471762733
Publication Date: June 30, 2006
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Product Description
Witness astounding feats of physics
Hurry! Hurry! Come one, come all. Meet a man who can pull two railroad passenger cars with his teeth and a real-life human cannon ball. Come face to face with a dead rattlesnake that still bites. And unlock the secrets to the magician's bodiless head.
Welcome to Jearl Walker's Flying Circus of Physics, 2nd Edition, where death-defying stunts, high-flying acrobatics, strange curiosities, and mind-bending illusions are all part of everyday life. You don't need a ticket; you only need to look to the world around you to uncover these fascinating feats of physics.
Completely updated and expanded, this Second Edition of Jearl Walker's best-selling book features more than 700 thoroughly intriguing questions about relevant, fun, and completely real physical phenomena. Detailed explanations and references to outside sources guide your way through the problems.
You'll discover answers to such questions as:
* Can you start a fire with ice?
* Why does the sky turn green just before a tornado?
* Why do wintergreen LifeSavers glow in the dark when you bite them?
* If you are falling in an elevator, should you try to jump up at the last second or lay flat against the floor?
* How do electric eels produce their electric field?
* Why is wet sand darker than dry sand?
* What causes an oasis mirage?
* Why do stars twinkle?
* Could you drive a car on a ceiling?
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Wow! I Love This! June 12, 2010
K. (USA)
I love physics, and I love all the interesting facts in the problems. It was fascinating to see the unusual applications of what I learned in class.
I recommend this book if you are using one of the Physics books edited by Jearl Walker.
 Flying Circus February 13, 2010
WT
The book is great! My kids and I love it! Unfortunately it took over two weeks to get it from the seller. The Pony Express would have been faster!
Builds creativity, thought-provoking January 4, 2009
Random Intellectual-lite (Troy, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book to any serious physics student. Try to solve the problems on your own before browsing through the answers. This will cultivate your capacity for using physical modeling ideas you are learning from class to think about real world phenomena. That is, it breeds the kind of concrete, practical thinking which people like Richard Feynman mastered to superlative effect. Keep some problems in mind to think about it idle moments.
Great examples for 'lecture breaks' September 19, 2008
John M. Boudry (Wisconsin)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I teach elementary physics at a local university. One of the complaints of my students was I didn't relate the material to real-world examples.
The Flying Circus of Physics contains a huge number of examples relating basic physics principles to events/phenomena in the real-world. I usually use one or two of these examples per lecture as 'breaks' from the standard material. The students enjoy them and quickly become engaged in the discussion.
grat articles for thinking January 19, 2008
David M. Mecham (Hawaii)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Opens the mind to concepts of Physics. I'm a high school physics teacher and just wish I had more time with my classes to explore the ideas presented by Dr. Walker. His video series Kinetic Karnival is also great, but I haven't been able to find it available to replace my damaged copies.
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