Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

[Phys-l] Movie Physics Gafs



I just watched “The Edge” (1997, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin).
Lost in the wild, Hopkins (playing a very knowledgeable outdoorsman) makes a compass by floating a needle on a leaf.

But he “magnetizes” the needle by rubbing it with a piece of silk!

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (Em)
treborsci@verizon.net
http://mysite.verizon.net/res12merh

_______________________________________
No infections found in this outgoing message
Scanned by iolo System Shield�
http://www.iolo.com