Science Projects And Inventions

STICKING PAGES

YOU NEED:

  • Two books of similar size and number of pages
  • A table

Are you aware that books can be turned into very strong magnets. Perform this experiment. The books can be either hard covers or paperbacks. Take the two books and place them on a table with their front edges touching each other.

Think of the books as if they are two halves of a deck of cards that has to be shuffled together. Let your thumb to run along the pages slowly, allowing them to interlace thoroughly. Once you have shuffled the pages, bring the books as close to each other as possible. Dare somebody to hold the spines of the books and pull them apart. He will fail to do it.

 

 HOW DOES IT WORK?

Some friction is produced between any two pages if they are in opposite books. The effect tends to magnify

by the many pages that have been coupled together because of the shuffling. The strong friction that.


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