It looked to me more like one of the phone books finally just gave out and the pages ripped away from the binding. Working in the industry for over two decades now, hes perhaps best known for creating the theme to mythbusters, a song beloved by the programs many fans. These are the methods they attempted to pull the phone books apart. Try pulling apart two interleaved phone books and youll inevitably be defeated by huge frictional forces. In short, it is extremely difficult to pull apart two phone books whose pages. Mythbusters phone book friction video this is a short video clip from the episode of mythbusters on the discovery channel. Why it takes tanks to separate two phone books the pipettepen. The cast of the television series mythbusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments the myth is busted, plausible, or confirmed. James bond, part 1, lead balloon, airplane on a conveyor belt, james bond, part 2, viewers special 2, macgyver myths, alaska special, shark week special 2.
In fact, the whole family me, my wife, yo, 11yo, 9yo and 7yo all sat to watch and. The mythbusters phone book video and question was just circulated around a physics teacher listserve. After all, youre pulling on the spines of the books and friction directly. It is impossible to separate two interlocked phone books due to the massive amount of friction between the 800 pages of each book. In the latest show, they tested the myth that two phone books with their pages alternating were. Finally, the mythbusters resorted to using an m551 sheridan light tank and an m1 armored personnel carrier, which were able to pull the phone books apart. Season 6 episode 12 of mythbusters resulted in a 0. This phenomenon is commonly demonstrated with phone books. Find out whether jamie hyneman and adam savages ducttape canoe can survive waves 3 to 4 feet taller than their bow, and see what made adam cry, uh oh. It is an old barroom trickmaking a nexttoimpossible task seem easy.
The normal force for any page x is the weight of the phone book above x, or n x. The phone books wouldnt come apart using all the mythbusters gadgets and even attaching the phone books between two cars. In the show, the mythbusters tried pulling the phone books apart with two cars pulling in opposite directions. Why cant two interleaved phone books be pulled apart.
During their full scale experiment, the mythbusters initially couldnt get a real car to levitate, partly because a city water usage cap. Mythbusters phonebook friction tv episode 2008 imdb. The mythbusters arent really doing it wrong, but they give me a chance to talk about some physics. Are two interlaced phone books impossible to pull apart by any means. Mythbusters gave it a shot and could not pull apart the phone books until. The mythbusters tried to pull the two phone books apart with human power, which was unsuccessful. Mythbusters phone book friction worksheet season 6.
Phone book friction, from mythbusters the enigma of the two interleaved phonebooks pdf, from cornell university library slippery science. Will tory and kari successfully pull apart two phone books in 30 minutes without breaking their teeth. Read about phone book friction by neil sutherland and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Phone book friction is a myth from the even more myths revisited episode of season 1. Man sues lynwood police officer claiming excessive force after 2019 arrest. Mythbusters 9102008 phone book fiction tivocommunity.
People have tried pulling two interleaved phone books apart by playing tug. They may not know what a tank is but they do know how to do really cool stuff for a living. On this episode of mythbusters adam and jamie take a fan mail film and use it to dial in on a phone book fable. I found myself fastforwarding through the shark bitsand thats saying a lot considering mythbusters is by far my favorite show. Physicists solve the mystery of interleaved phone books. Page 2 of 2 phone books, each about 1 kg about pages and carefully shuffle the pages together, each page of one phone book alternating with a page of the other phone book. Partly busted the mythbusters tried to pull the books apart with human power, first attempting to do so on their own and then bringing in ten other people which included tory and kari in a separate. The explosive truth behind 30 of the most perplexing urban legends of all time zimmerman, keith, zimmerman, kent, hyneman, jamie, savage, adam, rees, peter on.
Explore friction by launching stuff, from scientific. Mythbusters phone book friction full episode video dailymotion. The model care levitated, proving that the premise is at least feasible. Learn the physics behind the surprisingly powerful force of friction. Over on discoverys mythbusters website people are pointing. An overview of the rubegoldberg project from the students perspective.
The mythbusters, jamie and adam, two special effects experts with over 30 years of experience, set out to methodically bust three urban legends in each episode. Indonesian paratroopers almost turned into omelete. The mythbusters first performed a small scale experiment using a model car and several garden hoses branching from a single fire hose. The force of friction and the weight of the pages combine, tightly binding the phone books together and. With jamie hyneman, adam savage, tory belleci, grant imahara. Its silly to think the friction between the pages is making any difference as friction is a force thats easily overcome in. A pair of cars also failed at pulling the phone books apart. And then kari, grant and tory test a fishy tale of hollywood pyrotechnics with their own big bang theories. Myth two phone books with pages interlocked can not be separated by any means neccescary. Even a small number of interleaved pages can result in a surprisingly large amount of friction, making the sticky notes impossible to pull apart. In the intro of the phone book friction myth, the bluescreen first showed adam and jamie alone tugging on the phone books, then two groups of people, then two cars, then two tanks. The explosive truth behind 30 of the most perplexing urban legends of all time. In an effort to make a small version i shuffled together two small postit pads of 100 sheets.
Finally, the mythbusters resorted to using an m551 sheridan light tank and an m1 armored personnel. Can a shark be blown up like they did in deep blue sea. Watch mythbusters season 6, episode 12 phone book friction. This is a short video clip from the episode of mythbusters on the discovery channel. Both of them were highly entertaining and fun to watch. It is impossible to separate two phone books interleaved pagetopage due to the massive amount of friction between the 800 pages of each book. Phone book friction ep 12 english subbed, this seasons experiements are. In this episode they tried to bust the myth that it is impossible to pull two interleaved phone books apart. The pages of the sticky note pads are held together by friction. They test myths to prove or disprove what is real and what is truly urban legend.
Does interweaving the pages of two phone books create an unbreakable bond. Friction is proportional to the normal force, but here that normal force is not the gravity of a two sheet of paper, or if the phonebooks are each n pages long, not the 2n x friction of two sheets of paper. Heres a fun scientific method activity for your class. Phone book friction season 6 episode 7 on this episode of mythbusters, adam and jamie take a fan mail film and use it to dial in on a phone book fable. The suggestion that two interleaved phone books cannot be pulled apart is more complex than it seems.
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