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    ie = ASS ATs ZOANS ENR ARG) a bi bovis aad ACQUISITION EDITOR Stuart Johnson. SENIOR PRODUCTION EDITOR Elizabeth Swain MARKETING MANAGER ‘Amanda Wygal DESIGNER Madelyn Lesure SENIOR ILLUSTRATION EDITOR — Anna Melhorn MEDIA EDITOR ‘Thomas Kulesa (COVER ILLUSTRATOR Norm Christiansen ‘This book was set in 10/12 Minion by Preparé and printed and bound by Courier/Westford. The cover was printed by Lehigh Press. ‘This book is printed on acid free paper. co Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No par ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, excep as permitted under Sections 107 oF 108 ofthe 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior writen permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment ofthe appropiate per-cpy fe tothe Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website wwwcopyright.com. Requests tothe Publisher for permission shouldbe addressed tothe Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons; Inc. 111 River Steet, Hoboken, N 07030-5774, (201)748-6011, fx (201)748-6008, website hup/fwwwwiley.com/go/permissons ‘To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: ‘Walker, Jeal| ‘The flying citcus of physics /Jeal Walker. 2nd ed. pcm. Includes index. ISBN- 13: 978-0-471-76273.7 (pbk: acid-free paper) ISBN-10: 0-471-76273-3 (pbk: acid-free paper) 1, Physics--Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title (C32.W2 2007 530--de22 2006008029 Printed inthe United States of America 98 7654321 This book is dedicated to my wife Mary Golrick who sat with me for the 13 years I wrote “The Amateur Scientist” for Scientific American, the 16 years (and still counting) I spent writing Fundamentals of Physics, and the 200 years (seemingly) I spent on developing and writing this edition of The Flying Circus of Physics. Without her encouragement, support, love, and tolerance, I would have ended up staring at the wall instead of a word- processing screen. The Flying Circus of Physics began one dark and dreary night in 1968 while I was a graduate student at the University of Maryland. Well, actually, to most graduate students nearly all nights are dark and dreary, but I mean that particular night was really dark and dreary. 1 was a full-time teaching assistant, and earlier in the day I had given a quiz to Sharon, one of my students. She did badly and at the end turned to me with the challenge, “What has anything of this to do with my life?” 1 jumped to respond, “Sharon, this is physics! This has ‘everything to do with your life!” ‘As she turned more to face me, with eyes and voice both tightened, she said in measured pace, “Give me some examples.” 1 thought and thought but could not come up with a sin- gle one. I had spent atleast six years studying physics and I could not come up with even a single example. ‘That night I realized that the trouble with Sharon was actually the trouble with me: This thing called physics was something people did in a physics building, not something that was connected with the real world of Sharon (or me).So, I decided to collect some real-world examples and, to catch her attention, I called the collection The Flying Circus of Physics, Gradually I added to the collection, Soon other people wanted copies of the Flying Circus ‘material, first students in Sharon’s clas, then my fellow grad- uate students, and then some of the faculty members. After the material was printed asa “technical report” by the Physics Department at Maryland, landed a book contract with John Wiley & Sons. ‘The book was published in 1975, a few years after I became a physics professor at Cleveland State University; it was revised in 1977. Since then it has been translated into 11 languages for publication around the world. This isthe sec- ond edition of the book, which is completely rewritten and redesigned. When I began writing Flying Circus material, I searched through only a few dozen research journals, page by page, and discovered few relevant papers. Indeed, my metaphor for the project was that I was digging for gold in an almost bar- ren mountainside—the gold nuggets were few and hard to find. ‘The world has changed: Now, many hundreds of research papers with potential Flying Circus material are published every year and, in terms of my metaphor, I find huge gold veins. And now I don't dig through just a few dozen journals; look through about 400 journals directly and use search engines to sort through hundreds more. On many days my fingers just fly over my computer keyboard. I wish Sharon could look over my shoulder at all the really curious things I find. With this book you get that chance: Come look over my shoulder and you'll see that physics “has everything to do with your life” Web site for The Flying Circus of Physics ‘The web site associated with this book can be found at ‘wwrw-flyingcircusofphysics.com and contains: + Over 10 000 citations to journals and books of science, engineering, math, medicine, and law. The citations are ‘grouped according to the items in the book and marked as to difficulty. + Bonus items. + Corrections, updates, and additional comments. + An extended index. Origin of the Flying Circus name Tnamed my original collection of problems after the very early airshows in which daredevil pilots performed hair- raising stunts. I thought such an airshow was generically known as “flying circus” and hoped that the image of dare- devil pilots would entice someone to read my words. ve since learned that a flying circus was originally a cir- cus that moved about on a train and then later the name given to German aircraft that were moved in that way. The term came to be associated with the famous German pilot Red Baron, who in World War I painted his airplane blood- red to scare the pilots he fought in the air. ‘The comedy troupe known as Monty Python's Flying Circus first appeared in England about a year after | had begun using the Flying Circus name. The name must have just been in the air on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean that year. (The “dead parrot routine” is, however, entirely Monty Python's.) Bibliography All citations are listed in the Flying Circus of Physics web site, ‘grouped according to the items here in the book, and marked as to mathematical difficulty. The site contains over 10 000

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