Then interleave the pages and try to pull the books apart. Lots of fun, and wellreceived and it doesnt have to take a lot of prep work the paper one is actually usually one of the most popular. The initial results showed that the full bottle struck with an average gforce of 28. Its a fascinating read, and its all to do with friction. In the show, the mythbusters tried pulling the phone books apart with two cars pulling in opposite directions. Dip it into a cup of water and let it drip onto the first pages that you will be ripping. 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.
In this episode they tried to bust the myth that it is impossible to pull two interleaved phone books apart. Virtual reality technology lets mom reunite with her deceased. Once few pages are loose you pull them, which loosens other pages, and so forth. Can a shark be blown up like they did in deep blue sea. It is impossible to separate two phone books interleaved pagetopage due to the massive amount of friction between the 800 pages of each book. Will tory and kari successfully pull apart two phone books in 30 minutes without breaking their teeth.
And then kari, grant and tory test a fishy tale of hollywood pyrotechnics with their own big bang theories. The mythbusters first started by striking a fake human head with both full and empty bottles. Many thanks to rob go for providing the link to this 4minute clip, which shows that it is, in fact, impossible to pull apart two interleaved phone. And they dont just explain if somethings true or false. I was able to tear through a twoinch phone book easily. 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. Download to watch offline and even view it on a big screen using chromecast. Mythbusters phone book friction full episode video dailymotion. The trick apparently also works pretty well with reasonably thick magazines. It turns out that when you try to pull the two books apart, the. The mythbusters attempted to pull their books apart with two people as well, but quickly abandoned this approach. Why cant two interleaved phone books be pulled apart. Once you master the proper way of ripping a phone book in half, you can use this crutch less and less. The thicker the phone book you use, the harder this part is.
Mythbusters phonebook friction tv episode 2008 imdb. Take two 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. Try pulling apart two interleaved phone books and youll inevitably be defeated by huge frictional forces. They test myths to prove or disprove what is real and what is truly urban legend.
Test the strength of interlaced phone books as you take a seat on this swing. The extreme friction of the system is due to the operator, the researchers explained. For their full scale test, the mythbusters hung rupture discs 5 feet above water, 5 feet below water, and 10 feet below water at 5, 10, 20, and 50 foot intervals away from the explosives. Each episode, the mythbusters, adam savage and jamie hyneman, two special effects experts with more than 30 years of experience, methodically set out to bust three urban legends. Mythbusters phone book friction video this is a short video clip from the episode of mythbusters on the discovery channel. So begins the article over at the conversation, explaining why its impossible to pull apart interleaved phone books. However, the mythbusters noted that the gforces varied widely depending on how hard the head was struck. Plus phone book pages are so think any small amount of rain reduces them to virtually nothing, plus with soy ink there are no.
Take two phone books and lie them face up, with the spines facing away from each other. The tv show mythbusters had an episode in which they interleaved two phone books and dramatized how hard it was to pull them apart. This phenomenon is commonly demonstrated with phone books. And then kari, grant and tory test a fishy tale of. A pair of cars also failed at pulling the phone books apart. S i find that magazines provides stronger resistance than thinner phone book pages. Punching a shark in the nose or jabbing it in the gills will drive it away. The mythbusters tried to pull the two phone books apart with human power, which was unsuccessful. They instead used two teams of five on opposite ends, and when this didnt work, they tried all ten on one side, with the other end anchored. How to tear a phone book in half the art of manliness.
On one episode of mythbusters, the phone books withstood 8,000 pounds of force due to the friction. Phone book friction, from mythbusters the enigma of the two interleaved phonebooks pdf, from cornell university library slippery science. Why it takes tanks to separate two phone books the pipettepen. There are so many reasons to love the dutch, and mythbusters has just provided another. The force of friction and the weight of the pages combine, tightly. Are two interlaced phone books impossible to pull apart by any means. Even a small number of interleaved pages can result in a surprisingly large amount of friction, making the sticky notes impossible to pull apart. So im watching the mythbusters about the two phone books, and how if you alternate pages, its impossible to separate them. Mythbusters is a great platform where kids can show their talents. The myth was busted, but many viewers thought they got it wrong.
On this episode of mythbusters adam and jamie take a fan mail film and use it to dial in on a phone book fable. 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. Mythbusters 9102008 phone book fiction discussion in now. The cast of the television series mythbusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like. 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. In 2005, the mythbusters took a dive into sharkinfested waters to test theories from the 1975 classic film jaws. The cast of the television series mythbusters performs experiments to verify or debunk. A long time ago, a phone book was a book that had an index of phone numbers for everyone in your city. People have tried pulling two interleaved phone books apart by playing tug. Just dont let them see you getting your finger wet and dont let them examine the wet parts of the phone book. Coming up on mythbusters will this refrigerator let buster survive this atomic bomb were about to set off. April 12 well they are amazing at what they do to put themselves on the line at busting even the most simples.
The suggestion that two interleaved phone books cannot be pulled apart is more complex than it seems. The pages of the sticky note pads are held together by friction. If there was time at the end, we watched some mythbusters clips from the website. Then wed talk about if they thought the myth was busted, and what makes for good experimentation ie, control group, etc. I found myself fastforwarding through the shark bitsand thats saying a lot considering mythbusters is by far my favorite show. The interlaced pages were not entirely flat, not parallel to the direction of pull, but slanted by the interlacing. Discovery mythbusters the phone book myth timacious. Physicists solve the mystery of interleaved phone books. For the hypothermia tests, cameron said fifth officer harold lowe, who rescues rose in the film, began his search about 20 minutes after the. Mythbusters ejection seat segment from mega movie myths special duration. In the episode, the mythbusters revisited the epic final scene of jaws and tested whether shooting a scuba tank with a bullet would actually make it explode. Mythbusters 9102008 phone book fiction tivocommunity. In the latest show, they tested the myth that two phone books with their pages alternating were.
It is an old barroom trickmaking a nexttoimpossible task seem easy. 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. Does interweaving the pages of two phone books create an unbreakable bond. During their small scale tests, the mythbusters discovered that water can diminish the force of a shock wave caused by an explosion, giving credence to this myth. Half a century on, moon landing conspiracy theories persist. Researchers explain why its nearly impossible to separate. The chinese finger trap is relevant because as forces were pulling the books apart horizontally, it would tend to pull the interleaved pages tighter together vertically.
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