The mythbusters take on a scene from the 80s classic real genius. In the episode, the mythbusters revisited the epic final scene of jaws and tested whether shooting a scuba tank with a bullet would actually make it explode. And then kari, grant and tory test a fishy tale of hollywood pyrotechnics with. Mythbusters gave it a shot and could not pull apart the phone books until. On this episode of mythbusters adam and jamie take a fan mail film and use it to dial in on a phone book fable. Why no one can pull 2 phone books apart business insider. The official mythbusters website lists episodes by calendar year. The death of the shocking blogger pavel petel was on. Does interweaving the pages of two phone books create an unbreakable bond. Another example of this is the phone book friction episode, in which they investigated the difficulty of pulling two telephone books apart after their pages had been interleaved together.
Mythbusters is a science entertainment tv program created and produced by australias beyond television productions for the discovery channel there is no consistent system for organizing mythbusters episodes into seasons. In addition, revisit a collection of hollywoods biggest big screen myths. The myth was busted, but many viewers thought they got it wrong. A pair of cars also failed at pulling the phone books. Britishera bridge in india dating back 190 years demolished in controlled blast. A pair of cars also failed at pulling the phone books apart. Can a shark be blown up like they did in deep blue sea. There was no pressure differential across the phone book pages, nor would typical. The pursuit of a driver without a license ended in a fatal accident. Try pulling apart two interleaved phone books and youll inevitably be defeated by huge frictional forces. It is impossible to separate two interlocked phone books due to the massive amount of friction between the 800 pages of each book. Why it takes tanks to separate two phone books the pipettepen. The suggestion that two interleaved phone books cannot be pulled apart is more complex than it seems.
They may not know what a tank is but they do know how to do really cool stuff for a living. The pages of each book are separated by the interleaving and end up. Cell phone than the results of life also important dizzy. Will a aming trail of gasoline from a moving vehicle catch up to its tank and cause it to explode. Mythbusters s01e01 ice bullet, exploding toilet, who gets wetter. The cast of the television series mythbusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like. And then kari, grant and tory test a fishy tale of hollywood pyrotechnics with their own big bang theories. On this episode of mythbusters, adam and jamie take a fan mail film and use it to dial in on a phone book fable. The mythbusters arent really doing it wrong, but they give me a chance to talk about some physics.
Finally, the mythbusters resorted to using an m551 sheridan light tank and an m1. The pages of the sticky note pads are held together by friction. Learn the physics behind the surprisingly powerful force of friction. Are two interlaced phone books impossible to pull apart by any means. Mythbusters 9102008 phone book fiction tivocommunity. Gaming mythbusters episode 3 battlefield 4 mythbusters just cause 3 mythbusters. Pretty impressive, but i think jamie put it best that it was the friction between all of the pages but that it was a chinesefinger puzzle effect going on. I wouldnt think that a vacuum would make much difference. Explore friction by launching stuff, from scientific. Its silly to think the friction between the pages is making any difference as friction is a force thats easily overcome in.
With jamie hyneman, adam savage, tory belleci, grant imahara. Take two phone books, each about 1 kg about pages and carefully shuffle the pages together, each page of one phone book alternating with a page of the other phone book. It looked to me more like one of the phone books finally just gave out and the pages ripped away from the binding. I found myself fastforwarding through the shark bitsand thats saying a lot considering mythbusters is by far my favorite show. Mythbusters 9102008 phone book fiction discussion in now playing tv. In the latest show, they tested the myth that two phone books with their pages alternating were. Physicists solve the mystery of interleaved phone books. Gaming mythbusters minecraft mythbusters lego marvel avengers mythbusters episode 4.
Cell phone destroys gas station season 1, episode 3. And then kari, grant and tory test a fishy tale of. In short, it is extremely difficult to pull apart two phone books whose pages. Mythbusters phonebook friction tv episode 2008 imdb. Junior mythbusters are trying to bust a myth that phone books can save you and your car from bullets.
It took two tanks pulling in opposite directions to seperate the two phone books. Finally, the mythbusters resorted to using an m551 sheridan light tank and an m1 armored personnel carrier, which were able to pull the phone books apart. Missouri man finds stacks of family photos and reunites them with their owners. Researchers explain why its nearly impossible to separate. Partly busted the mythbusters tried to pull the books apart with human power, first attempting to do so on their own and then bringing in ten other people which included tory and kari in a separate.
The mythbusters revisit myths about a bullets, running in the rain, using plywood as a parachute, black cars heating up faster than white cars, running a car with air conditioning, and exploding gas tanks. It is an old barroom trickmaking a nexttoimpossible task seem easy. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments the myth is busted, plausible, or confirmed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. In 2005, the mythbusters took a dive into sharkinfested waters to test theories from the 1975 classic film jaws. The phone books wouldnt come apart using all the mythbusters gadgets and even attaching the phone books between two cars. Phone book friction, from mythbusters the enigma of the two interleaved phonebooks pdf, from cornell university library slippery science. The force of friction and the weight of the pages combine, tightly binding the phone books together and. People have tried pulling two interleaved phone books apart by playing tug. A mythbusters episode showed that the interleaved phonebooks are strong enough to lift a car, and that nothing less than two military tanks can separate them while tearing many of the pages.
Phone book friction, mythbusters worksheet, newtons third law of motion, projectile accuracy, projectile motion, separate two phone books when the pages are interwoven. Even a small number of interleaved pages can result in a surprisingly large amount of friction, making the sticky notes impossible to pull apart. Pulling apart two interleaved phone books stack exchange. After all, youre pulling on the spines of the books and friction directly. Mythbusters phone book friction worksheet season 6. This is exactly what the team investigating the friction of phone books did. Its not impossible to separate two phone books stuck in one another.
Girlfriends burned the cottage for a video on instagram. The show does not follow a typical calendar of on and off air periods. The mythbusters want to know scratch that, they need to know just how hollywood pulls off some of their most spectacular stunts and eyepopping effects. The mythbusters tried to pull the two phone books apart with human power, which was unsuccessful. In the intro of the phone book friction myth, the bluescreen first showed adam and jamie alone tugging on the phone books, then two groups of people, then two cars, then two tanks. Virtual reality technology lets mom reunite with her deceased child. These are the methods they attempted to pull the phone books apart. Mythbusters s03e06 son of a gun phone thunderstorm electrocuted boat trailer. Youtube people, trucks, and even military tanks have tried and failed the task of pulling apart two phone books lying. This phenomenon is commonly demonstrated with phone books. Yep, it took a little longer than expected, but after one long slog of 14 days, i got the book together and had it published.