Nevertheless, it
seems that evil forces have spelled a cast on him and he has been trapped in
what looks like an endless quest... Oh no! He is cast away in a Möbius Strip!
If you wish to
help Euler Piruleta, you should know one or two things about this "Möbius
Strip":
1) The Möbius
Strip is a peculiar surface with intriguing characteristics.
2)
Every surface that you know has two faces (a sheet, a coin, the floor...) but
the Möbius Strip has just one face... an endless face!
3)
Unfortunately for him, our poor Euler Piruleta doesn't know these properties
and that's why he needs your assistance…
1) Build your own
Möbius Strip.
You
just need a long (and at least 4cm-width) paper strip.
Glue one end to the other as it is depicted in
the image below, turning one end:
Is
it possible to paint the inside and outside of the Möbius Strip using different
colors? Why?
2) Cut your Möbius
Strip in two (following an imaginary line which should be drawn exactly in the
middle of your strip):
Once you are
done… what do you get?
How many “turns”
does the object you have created have?
3) Repeat the
procedure you have done in the previous step and describe what you get.
Only if you
fully understand the complexity of the Möbius Strip will Euler Piruleta be
released from his infinity prison.
Watch it: your
solution must include pictures of the outcomes of every part: your original
Möbius Strip, the one you get after the first cut and what you get after the
second cut.
For amusement only: this was another endless quest that become quiet famous when I was in school!
Dragon Ball Opening - GALEGO's Version
PS: Tania, Iván, Carlos, Andrea I., Jorge and Iñakig G. have been awarded with TWO possitives due to their answers to the last challenges ;) Congratulations. Euler Piruleta is starting to be very fond of you :P
I have just sent it! ;)
ReplyDeleteYou say "Every surface you know has two faces (a sheet, a coin, the floor...)" but it's not clear from your examples, at least not clear to me, what you mean by either surface or face.
ReplyDeleteIf we look at the surface of a sphere and assume it has 2 faces then one would be inside and one outside. If we look at a cube we have an option. It could be viewed as having a single surface with two faces (1 outside & 1 inside). Or it could be viewed as having 6 surfaces with 12 faces (6 outside and 6 inside). What is true of a cube in this case is also true of any rectangular cuboid, even a very flattened one like a piece of paper. (It's important to remember that paper has 3 dimensions - length width and depth) This being the case an ordinary paper ring has either 2 faces or 8 depending on your point of view. And a paper Mobius strip has either 2 faces or 4.
For a Mobius strip to have only one face it cannot be made out of a 3 dimensional material such as paper. A Mobius strip is 2 dimensional and there is no such thing as a 2 dimensional material.
However, there is a way to make a 2 dimensional Mobius strip.
Make a Mobius strip using a strip of paper in the usual way. Slide a second piece of paper that is twice as long as the first over the the large surface of the Mobius strip. It will wrap around it and cover it completely. Join the ends of the second piece of paper to form what we can call a wrap strip. Remove the Mobius strip from between the inner surface of the wrap strip (you'll have to cut it out) without disturbing the wrap strip. The inner surface is now in contact with itself and contains a 2 dimensional space the same shape as the Mobius strip that was removed.
This 2 dimensional Mobius space is interesting because it has only one adjacent area. That adjacent area is occupied by a single object- the wrap strip.