In the opening scenes of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones tries to remove a gold idol from a booby-trapped pedestal. He replaces the idol with a bag of sand of approximately the same volume. (Density of gold = 19.32 g/cm3 and density of sand ≈ 2 g/cm3.)
(a) Did he have a reasonable chance of not activating the booby trap? Explain.
(b) In a later scene, he and an unscrupulous guide play catch with the idol. Assume that the volume of the idol is about 1.0 L. If it were solid gold, then what mass would the idol have? Do you think playing catch with it is plausible?
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