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The Mystery of Why It's Impossible to Pull Apart Interleaved Phone Books - Solved

posted by martyb on Thursday August 27 2015, @09:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Did-you-let-Chuck-Norris-try? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

People, trucks and even military tanks have tried and failed the task of pulling apart two phone books lying face up with their pages interleaved, like a shuffled deck of cards. While physicists have long known that this must be due to enormous frictional forces, exactly how these forces are generated has been an enigma – until now.

A team of physicists from France and Canada has discovered that it is the layout of the books coupled with the act of pulling that is producing the force.

http://phys.org/news/2015-08-mystery-impossible-interleaved.html

[Source]: http://theconversation.com/solved-the-mystery-of-why-its-impossible-to-pull-apart-interleaved-phone-books-46697

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:26PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:26PM (#228759) Journal

    Too late. They already did that one . . . see Youtube for the low down on "Phone Book Friction". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOt-D_ee-JE/ [youtube.com]

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