For the spooky Halloween holiday both kids planning to trick or treat and adults planning to attend Halloween parties like to dress up in Halloween costumes. Ghosts, witches, Harry Potter, and superheroes are all popular themes for Halloween costumes. Physics might someday make these costumes more realistic.
Witches, Harry Potter, and Flying Broomsticks
Witches and Harry Potter are popular Halloween costumes. Both of these characters like to fly on broomsticks, so a real flying broomstick would certainly make these costumes more realistic. Broomsticks however are not particularly aerodynamic, so flying broomsticks are a little hard to find. How might physics help design flying broomsticks?
In The Science of Harry Potter (Penguin, 2002) Roger Highfield discusses some ways that flying broomsticks could become a reality. They include:
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