Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down:
Zen and the Art of Physics Demonstrations
Robert Ehrlich

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
1	How to Design Simple Physics Demos	3
2	Newton's Laws	22
3	Statics, Equilibrium, and Accelerometers	43
4	Orbital Motion and Angular Momentum	64
5	Conservation of Momentum and Energy	81
6	Fluids	100
7	Thermodynamics	113
8	Mechanical Oscillations and Waves	121
9	Electricity and Magnetism	146
10	Optics	157
11	Interference and Diffraction	171
12	Modern Physics	179
	Bibliography	193
	Index	195

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