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Re: [Phys-l] Movie Physics Gafs

Well, of course.

If he'd rubbed it with WOOL it woulda been BACKWARDS ! ! !
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At 10:00 AM -0400 9/12/11, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
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!