From: Bob Sciamanda
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 10:00 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: [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!
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