Index R-S
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Index A-C
Index D-K
Index L-Q
Index T-Z
R
Rabbit hole, Alice in, 1.141
Race cars, 1.15, 1.151, 2.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.9
Racquetball, 1.77
Radiation and visual sensations, 7.46, 5.17
Radioactive gun sights, 6.161
Radiometer toys, 4.91
Railroad, 1.13, 1.72, 1.182, 2.3
Railroad tanker collapse, 4.54
Rain harvesting, lizard, 2.82
Rain runoff system, 2.163
Rain, walk or run, 1.1, 1.1
Rainbows, 6.1-6.3, 6.2
Raki, 6.113
Random-dot patterns, 7.29, 7.30
Rattenberg, Austria, mirrors, 6.82
Rattleback toy, 1.109, 1.109
Rattlesnake, detection by, 4.1, 4.1
Razorbacks, Martian and kitchen, 5.53
Razor blade reflections, 6.69
Razor blades, floating, 2.85, 6.99
Reading in the dark, 7.15, 7.15
Rear-end collision, 1.11
Rear-view mirrors, 6.73
Red Bull pub trick, 2.120
Red-eye effect in photographs, 7.17
Reflection loops, 6.40
Reflection reversal, 6.60
Reflection tones, 3.17
Reflections by ocean waves, 6.150
Relativistic length contraction, 6.162
Renaissance art, 6.76
Respiratory sounds, 3.32
Retroreflectors
acoustical, 3.25, 3.64
optical, 6.70, 6.71
Reynolds ridge, 2.148
Rhino-optical effect, 7.21
Ribboning, liquid, 2.62
Rice Krispies, 3.53
Rice, lifting with a rod, 2.125
Richards, Frank "Cannonball," 1.46
Rime ice, 4.19
Ring hitch, 1.223
Ring vortex, 2.40
Rings in mirrors, colored, 6.110
Rings of light, 6.40
Ripples in sky, 6.146
River erosion, 1.194
River meander, 2.26, 2.26
Road
bumps, 1.185, 1.185
corrugation, 1.185, 1.185
music, 3.86
Roadway, 1.185
Roaring, 3.8, 3.10
Robots, wall-climbing, 5.54
Rock art, echoes near, 3.66, 3.66
Rock climbing, 1.60, 1.61
Rockets, 1.168, 1.169
Rockfalls, 2.116, 3.58
Rod-climbing fluids, 2.61
Rodgers and Hart, songwriters, 6.50
Rogue waves, 2.64
Roller coasters, 1.19, 1.19
Roller derby, 1.231
Rossini, G., overture, 3.86
Rotor, amusement park, 1.19
Rotor, notched stick, 1.161
Rotating snakes illusion, 7.13
Rubber band sounds, 3.33
Rubber bands, heating and cooling, 4.86, 4.94
Rude noises, 3.90
Rugby, 1.24
Runouts, landslide, 2.115
S
Sailboat, 2.161
Salt fingers, 2.135
Salt fountains, 2.135
Salt oscillators, 2.134
Saltation, 2.110
Salting in ice cream making, 4.41
Salting sidewalks and roads, 4.40
Sambuca, 6.113
Sand
booming and squeaking, 3.69, 3.69
cohesion, 2.86
dunes, 2.111
ripples, 2.110
sparking, 5.29
Sand-bar reflections, 2.132
Sandcastles, 2.86
Sandpiles, 2.106, 2.140, 2.140
pressure under, 2.140
Sapphire, star, 6.97
Satellite mirror, 6.82
Satellites, 1.137, 1.187, 1.188
Sauce béarnaise, 5.37
Sauropod dinosaur, 2.48
Sausage-shadow effect, 6.99
Scanning electron microscope, 1.208
Scarabeid beetles, colors, 6.115
Scarps, beach, 2.86
Scorpion, sand, 1.127
Scratches, optics, 6.105
Screen, optics, 6.104
Searchlight beams, 6.3, 6.22, 6.80
Secondary flow, 2.25, 2.26
Seed, spining, 2.11
Seiches, 2.67, 2.67
Self-cleaning effect, 2.93
Self-organizing pattern, 2.159
SEM, 1.208
Sempere, Eusebio, sculpture, 3.86
Seurat, Georges, 7.11
Shadow bands, 6.33
Shadows, 6.99, 6.102, 7.25, 7.40
on snow, 6.42
on water, 6.41
Shafts across sky, 6.15
Shaking soda or beer, 2.76
Shampoo stream bounce, 2.60
Shandy, 2.76
Shape of sky, 7.2
Shaver clippings in water, 2.150
Shaving, 1.193
Shear-thickening fluids, 2.58
Shear-thinning fluids, 2.58
Sheep, big-horn, 1.10, 1.61
Shimmy, optical, 6.32
Shock front, optics, 6.100, 6.100, 6.101
Shock waves
acoustic, 1.87, 3.54- 3.60
traffic, 1.3
Shooting your own airplane, 2.155
Shorebirds, prey harvesting, 2.83
Shot put, 1.162, 1.162
Shower curtains, 2.21
Shower singing, 3.67
Shower-door optics, 6.88
Shrimp sounds, 1.40, 3.50, 3.50
Shrimpoluminescence, 3.50
Side flash, lightning, 5.2
Sidewalk cooking, 4.97
Side-view mirrors, 6.74
Siege machines, 1.31
Signac, Paul, 7.25
Silos
flows, 2.107
honking and quaking, 2.107, 3.38
Simoson, A. J., 1.141
Singing, 3.4, 3.6, 3.67
Singing, shattering glass, 3.44, 3.44
Sink, colors in, 6.125
Sinkholes, 4.96
Siphon, 2.41
Skateboard, 1.82
Skater, ice, 1.95
Ski glasses, 6.56
Ski jumping, 2.7
Ski, charging and glowing, 5.14
Skid marks, 1.8-1.9
Skiing, 1.101, 1.163, 2.8, 4.33, 5.14, 2.7
Ski racing, 2.7, 2.7, 2.8,
Skin color change with cold air, 6.123
Skin softness, optics, 6.133
Skipping rock, 1.94, 1.94
Skunk cabbage heat production, 4.57
Sky
brightness, 6.4
colors, 6.5, 6.5, 6.8, 6.12 - 6.14, 6.19
polarization, 6.127, 6.128, 7.38
shape, 7.2
Sky-ice, 6.20
Skywalk collapse, 1.47
Slam freezing, 4.24
Slings, 1.28
Slingshot, 4.94
Slinky, 1.65
Sloshes, 2.67
Smith, Rick, Jr., card throwing, 2.10
Smoke front, tunnel fire 4.95
Smoke signals, 4.76
Snake blood pressure, 2.47
Snake,
gliding, 2.12
infrared detection by, 4.1
slithering, 1.233
Snap, crackle, and pop of cereal, 3.53
Snapping shrimp sounds, 3.50, 3.50
Sneezing, sound, 3.60
Snoring, 3.7
Snorkeling, 2.53
Snow
avalanches, 2.114, 4.38
brightness, 6.21
colors, 6.53, 6.54
fences, 2.113
sounds, 3.72
sparking, 5.29
waves, 1.128
Snowball making, 4.34
Snowblindness, 6.55
Snowflake formation, 4.32
Snowrollers, 4.37, 4.37
Soda sounds, 3.84
Soap bubbles, 2.77, 2.122, 4.70
Soap films, colors, 6.114
Soccer, 1.78, 1.129, 2.14, 1.162
Soda, freezing, 4.24
Solar flare, 7.46
Solar towers, 4.83
Solitary waves, 2.31
Solutal instability, 2.89
Sonic booms, 3.54-3.59
Soprano singing, 3.4
Sound from ears, 3.28
Sounds
food crushing, 3.51
long distance travel, 3.18
Soup reversal, 2.59
Space walking, 4.5
Spaghetti breaking, 1.220
Spaghetti effect, 1.122, 1.122
Sparking, 5.8 - 5.11, 5.17, 5.29, 5.30
Speaking, 3.4, 3.5
Speckle patterns, 6.124
Sphere of Death, 1.211
Spiders, 1.123, 2.81
Spin test, 1.88
Spiny lobsters, sounds, 3.12
Splashing, 2.75, 2.147
Splashing sounds, 3.87
Spoons, hanging, 1.57, 1.57
Spring equinox and eggs, 1.138, 1.138
Spring surprise, 1.148
Springboard diving, 1.97, 1.134
Sprint tracks, 1.16
Sprites, 5.6, 5.6
Squeaking sand, 3.69, 3.69
Squirrels, and snakes, 4.1
St. Elmo’s fire, 5.4, 5.29, 5.21
Stacking stones and bowling balls, 1.201
Stack plumes, 4.75
Stadium waves, 1.129
Stairs, echoes from, 3.65
Stalactites, 2.84
Standing stability, 1.199
Stapp, John, 1.11
Star sapphires, 6.97
Star spikes, 7.6
Stargazer’s eye sweep, 7.36
Stars seen in shafts, 7.35
Stars, twinkling, 6.32
Stealth aircraft, 6.117
Steam devils, 2.39
Stepped leader, lightning, 5.1
Stethoscopes, 3.32
Stick-and-slip effects, 3.42, 343
Stirling flocks, 2.166
Stone migration during freezing, 4.29
Stone, migrating in desert, 1.58
Stonehenge, 1.63
Stone skipping, 1.94, 1.94
Stones, stacking, 1.201
Storage tank collapse, 4.54
Strait of Gibraltar flow, 2.146
Strait of Messina flow, 2.146
Strait of Sicily flow, 2.146
Street lamps, illumination by, 6.78
Streetlight turn-on illusion, 7.24
Stroboscope effect with humming, 7.8
Stroboscope induced patterns, 7.7
Structural colors, biological, 6.95, 6.115, 6.158
Submarines
escape from, 2.54
listening to, 3.20
sinking of, 1.126
Sucked from an airplane, 2.158
Sugar, charging, 5.53
Sugar dust explosion, 5.11
Suitcase with flywheel, 1.105
Sullenberger, Captain, 1.218
Sun dogs, 6.34
Sun, distortions, 6.25
Sunbeams, 6.15
Sunglasses and UV light, 7.41
Sunglasses, polarizing, 6.126
Sunset, 6.5, 6.8, 6.13, 6.14, 6.23, 6.24, 6.43, 6.142, 6.145
Super Ball tricks, 1.43, 1.76
Supercooling water, 4.10
Superheating water, 4.48
Superhydrophobic, 3.77
Superman x-ray vision, 7.48
Supersonic, 3.54 - 3.58, 2.155
Surface tension instability, 2.89
Surface tension, whiskey glass, 2.157
Surf skimmers, 2.130
Surfing, 2.69
Surge front, 2.163
Surgery, electrical effects, 5.8, 5.8, 5.16, 5.25, 5.26, 5.31, 5.31
Sway, building, 1.133, 1.133
Swimming, 2.19, 2.35
Swings, 1.113-1.115
Sword fight, 1.198
Sword swallowing, 6.87
Syracuse, Archimedes defense, 6.81
Index A-C
Index D-K
Index L-Q
Index T-Z