Brain-flexing Balance Problems and Other Puzzles
Author(s): Ivan Moscovich
This book presents puzzles in perpetual motion brought to you from the prolific puzzle-master Ivan Moscovich. Many of these bright brainteasers focus on ingenious, moving mechanisms. Check out a perpetuum mobile invented by a famous American mathematician and see if you can successfully explain its theoretical principle of operation. A cartoon depicts a classic Lewis Carroll conundrum: there's a monkey hanging on a tree holding one end of a rope while a bunch of bananas balance the other end in a state of equilibrium. What will happen if the monkey starts to climb? Other problems deal with gears and levers, while still more shift to number, counting, and calculation challenges.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : sterju
- : sterju
- : 0.463
- : 09 November 2006
- : 254mm X 203mm X 10mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ivan Moscovich
- : Paperback
- : 793.73
- : 128
- : full colour photographs