Physics 003 Physics by Inquiry
Fall 2002
Prof.  Hank Yochum

The Amazing Psychic!  hmy HW1.

In class, you have been making hypotheses, designing experiments, taking data, and interpreting that data.  These skills are of course valuable in science but are also valuable in life. 

On the following web site the authors claim to be able to perform an amazing psychic card trick.   http://www.astrohoroscopes.com/puzzles/cardtrick_1.html

Your assignment:    Determine how this trick is accomplished.
After your first experience with the trick, I want you to list many ways which you think  this might work.
Can you test these hypotheses?  

Details:
You should turn in a write up which contains: your preliminary guesses as to how this works, the experiments that you did to test these, the results of these experiments, and your interpretations of this data.  A logical approach to solving this problem needs to be displayed for full credit.  DO NOT look this problem up on the web in an effort to get the "right answer."  I am looking for clear thought, not necessarily the "right answer."

I want you to apply the same level of rigor that you should be doing in class to this assignment.

Have fun!

NOTE:  Should you figure this out, DO NOT TELL ANYONE ELSE IN THE CLASS!  I will regard this as cheating and you will get NO CREDIT for this assignment.  


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