By Richard Wiseman
ISBN-10: 1509824014
ISBN-13: 9781509824014
What could you do if an individual guess you they can stability a coin at the fringe of a banknote, stroll via a postcard, or make you progress your limbs in the course of the energy of advice? might you're taking that bet?
From Richard Wiseman, the writer of the 350-million-view YouTube phenomenon, Quirkology, comes an exhilarating mixture of lateral pondering, magic tips and scintillating technological know-how stunts that is absolute to entice curious minds everywhere.
Using purely your physique and daily family gadgets, one hundred and one Bets you'll always Win is either a realistic advisor and illuminating exploration of the attention-grabbing technology that underpins those possible most unlikely challenges.
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Now the can will balance at a seemingly impossible angle. A FANTASTIC FLOTATION Fill a glass with water and challenge your friend to float a paper clip on top of the water. Every time they place a paper clip in the glass it will sink to the bottom. To win the bet, bend one paper clip into an ‘L’ shape, and then balance another paper clip on the arm of the ‘L’. Finally, carefully place the entire arrangement on the top of the water. Amazingly, the paper clip will float. The bet works because the molecules on the top of the water are held strongly together by surface tension, forming a thin film.
According to Newton’s law of motion, the tomato is being acted upon by a ‘centripetal force’. So now you know. LEMON-AID Place a lemon in a glass of water. Next, challenge your friend to take a coin from their pocket and balance it on the lemon. Tell them that you will keep the coin if it falls into the water. It sounds simple, but whenever they place a coin on the lemon, the lemon will roll over and the coin will fall into the water. Lemons are high in vitamin C and help prevent scurvy. The demand for scurvy-preventing lemons peaked during the 1849 California Gold Rush, when malnourished miners would pay vast amounts of money for a single lemon.
SINK OR SWIM Arrange eight matches to create a fish swimming along to the left. Now challenge your friend to move just three of the matches and make the fish swim in the opposite direction. To win the bet, just move this match. And this one. And finally move this match. Now the fish is swimming to the right! EQUATION TIME Arrange seven matches to make this equation. Now challenge your friend to move just one match and make the equation correct. To win the bet, move this match and now everything is fine because the square root of one is one!
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