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[Phys-l] Movie Physics Gafs
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: "Bob Sciamanda"<
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: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:00:27 -0400
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)
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