Chapter
3 Paradoxes with Spinning Water
3 Paradoxes with Spinning Water
3.1 A Puzzle with a Floating Cork
3.1 A Puzzle with a Floating Cork
3.2 Parabolic Mirrors and Two Kitchen Puzzles
3.2 Parabolic Mirrors and Two Kitchen Puzzles
3.3 A Cold Parabolic Dish
3.3 A Cold Parabolic Dish
3.5 Navigating with No Engine or Sails
3.5 Navigating with No Engine or Sails
4 Floating and Diving Paradoxes
4 Floating and Diving Paradoxes
4.2 The Tub Problem—In More Depth
4.2 The Tub Problem—In More Depth
4.3 How to Lose Weight in a Fraction of a Second
4.3 How to Lose Weight in a Fraction of a Second
4.4 An Underwater Balloon
4.4 An Underwater Balloon
5.1 Bernoulli's Law and Water Guns
5.1 Bernoulli's Law and Water Guns
5.2 Sucking on a Straw and the Irreversibility of Time
5.2 Sucking on a Straw and the Irreversibility of Time
5.3 Bernoulli's Law and Moving Around in a Space Shuttle
5.3 Bernoulli's Law and Moving Around in a Space Shuttle
5.5 Ejecting Water Fast but with Zero Speed?
5.5 Ejecting Water Fast but with Zero Speed?
5.6 A Pouring Water Puzzle
5.6 A Pouring Water Puzzle
5.8 An Inkjet Printer Question
5.8 An Inkjet Printer Question
6 Moving Experiences: Bikes, Gymnastics, Rockets
6 Moving Experiences: Bikes, Gymnastics, Rockets
6.2 The Rising Energy Cost
6.2 The Rising Energy Cost
6.3 A Gymnast Doing Giants and a Hamster in a Wheel
6.3 A Gymnast Doing Giants and a Hamster in a Wheel
6.4 Controlling a Car on Ice
6.4 Controlling a Car on Ice
6.5 How Does a Biker Turn?
6.5 How Does a Biker Turn?
6.6 Speeding Up by Leaning
6.6 Speeding Up by Leaning
6.7 Can One Gain Speed on a Bike by Body Motion Only?
6.7 Can One Gain Speed on a Bike by Body Motion Only?
6.8 Gaining Weight on a Motorbike
6.8 Gaining Weight on a Motorbike
6.9 Feeling the Square in (mv[sup(2)]/2) Through the Bike Pedals
6.9 Feeling the Square in (mv[sup(2)]/2) Through the Bike Pedals
6.10 A Paradox with Rockets
6.10 A Paradox with Rockets
6.12 Throwing a Ball from a Moving Car
6.12 Throwing a Ball from a Moving Car
7 Paradoxes with the Coriolis Force
7 Paradoxes with the Coriolis Force
7.1 What Is the Coriolis Force?
7.1 What Is the Coriolis Force?
7.2 Feeling Coriolis in a Boeing 747
7.2 Feeling Coriolis in a Boeing 747
7.3 Down the Drain with Coriolis
7.3 Down the Drain with Coriolis
7.4 High Pressure and Good Weather
7.4 High Pressure and Good Weather
7.5 What Causes Trade Winds?
7.5 What Causes Trade Winds?
8.1 What's Cheaper: Flying West or East?
8.1 What's Cheaper: Flying West or East?
8.3 An Amazing Inverted Pendulum: What Holds It Up?
8.3 An Amazing Inverted Pendulum: What Holds It Up?
8.5 The "Proof" That the Sling Cannot Work
8.5 The "Proof" That the Sling Cannot Work
8.6 A David–Goliath Problem
8.6 A David–Goliath Problem
8.8 Which Tension Is Greater?
8.8 Which Tension Is Greater?
8.9 Slithering Ropes in Weightlessness
8.9 Slithering Ropes in Weightlessness
9.1 How Does the Spinning Top Defy Gravity?
9.1 How Does the Spinning Top Defy Gravity?
9.4 Staying on a Slippery Dome
9.4 Staying on a Slippery Dome
9.5 Finding North with a Gyroscope
9.5 Finding North with a Gyroscope
10 Some Hot Stuff and Cool Things
10 Some Hot Stuff and Cool Things
10.1 Can Heat Pass from a Colder to a Hotter Object?
10.1 Can Heat Pass from a Colder to a Hotter Object?
10.2 A Bike Pump and Molecular Ping-Pong
10.2 A Bike Pump and Molecular Ping-Pong
10.3 A Bike Pump as a Heat Pump
10.3 A Bike Pump as a Heat Pump
10.4 Heating a Room in Winter
10.4 Heating a Room in Winter
10.5 Freezing Things with a Bike Tire
10.5 Freezing Things with a Bike Tire
11 Two Perpetual Motion Machines
11 Two Perpetual Motion Machines
11.1 Perpetual Motion by Capillarity
11.1 Perpetual Motion by Capillarity
11.2 An Elliptical Mirror Perpetuum Mobile
11.2 An Elliptical Mirror Perpetuum Mobile
12.1 Shooting Cherry Pits and Sailing
12.1 Shooting Cherry Pits and Sailing
12.2 Sailing Straight into the Wind
12.2 Sailing Straight into the Wind
12.3 Biking against the Wind
12.3 Biking against the Wind
12.4 Soaring without Updrafts
12.4 Soaring without Updrafts
12.5 Danger of the Horizontal Shear Wind
12.5 Danger of the Horizontal Shear Wind
13 The Flipping Cat and the Spinning Earth
13 The Flipping Cat and the Spinning Earth
13.1 How Do Cats Flip to Land on Their Feet?
13.1 How Do Cats Flip to Land on Their Feet?
13.2 Can Trade Winds Slow Earth's Rotation?
13.2 Can Trade Winds Slow Earth's Rotation?
14.1 How to Open a Wine Bottle with a Book
14.1 How to Open a Wine Bottle with a Book
14.3 Falling Faster Than g: A Falling Chain "Sucked in" by the Floor
14.3 Falling Faster Than g: A Falling Chain "Sucked in" by the Floor
14.4 A Man in a Boat with Drag
14.4 A Man in a Boat with Drag
14.5 A "Phantom" Boat: No Wake and No Drag
14.5 A "Phantom" Boat: No Wake and No Drag
14.6 A Constant-G Roller Coaster
14.6 A Constant-G Roller Coaster
14.8 Computing √2 with a Shoe
14.8 Computing √2 with a Shoe
A.2 Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Work
A.2 Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Work
A.2.4 Conservation of Energy
A.2.4 Conservation of Energy
A.7 Angular Velocity, Centripetal Acceleration
A.7 Angular Velocity, Centripetal Acceleration
A.8 Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces
A.8 Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces
A.9 Coriolis, Centrifugal, and Complex Exponentials
A.9 Coriolis, Centrifugal, and Complex Exponentials
A.10 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
A.10 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Why Cats Land on Their Feet
：And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles
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