Comments on: Episode 106: Phone Book Friction

By: charena

charena — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:15:28 +0000

phone book friction is cool we r doin our project on it

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:09:23 +0000

i tried it with two 48 page books and it took 4 people to separate them

By: deargos

deargos — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:56:42 +0000

I’m just surprised ya’ll r still commenting on this thread… O and the phone books were separated. They were 1, now they’re 2. Its not that difficult. The myth doesn’t say they have to rip at the pages or separate there. I think you’re all taking to many liberties with this myth…

By: josh

josh — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:25:09 +0000

I did this with two 100 page notebooks and even that was hard to seperate. Eventualy one tore in half… Anyways i agree with geoff they should call it partly confirmed

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:26:42 +0000

Actually, the phone book one would be confirmed because it is technically impossible to pull anything. Every force is a pull. But thanks for the great episode I’m using it for science I’m just not sure how to explain the friction part.

By: William

William — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:05:52 +0000

The way they edited this episode, they didn’t say if the presure drums burst for the 2nd explosion which was big enough to kill the shark but just didn’t look like the one in the movie!

What makes Mythbusters different than watching a sit-com is that it’s based on science. I want to know that information!

Also, movie explosions sizes are always exaggerated, so you should really be testing what would kill a shark, not what looks like a pretty boom anyway.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:15:26 +0000

For your science fair project, how did you explain WHY they couldn’t be pulled apart? What was the relationship between friction and surface area?

By: Zeph

Zeph — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:31:36 +0000

I agree that the phone book myth should be confirmed. Nobody thinks phone books can withstand infinite tension just because the pages are interwoven. The only way to meaningfully define “impossible” would be that the phone books cannot be separated from each other while intact, not that phone books can never be ripped apart internally. By demonstrating that the force required to tear off the binding is less then the force required to separate the pages, they actually confirmed it!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:15:29 +0000

i would have tryed the tanks but shuold have been jets

By: richard

richard — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:51:30 +0000

Thats what i said lol the one of the phonebooks pages ripped from the spine so they didnt separate from the friction, so yea its myth comfirmed.