Index T-Z
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Index A-C
Index D-K
Index L-Q
Index R-S
T
Tablecloth trick, 1.164, 1.230
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, 2.4, 2.4
Tae-kwon-do punch, 1.45
Takeoff illusion, 1.17
Tang grain behavior, 2.106
Tape, glow, 5.17, 5.17
Tape, unrolling, 1.154
Tattoos, magnetic effects, 5.40, 5.40, 5.42
Taylor, Charles, vehicle, 1.219
Tea leaves, 2.25
Tea, roll patterns in, 2.90
Teapot effect, 2.51
Tears of strong wine, 2.88
Teeshirt optics, 6.86, 6.159
Telegraph lines, magnetic effects, 5.47
Telephone wire sounds, 3.2
Television snow illusion, 7.30
Tennis, 1.79, 2.13
Termite mounds, temperatures, 4.83
Thames River tunnel, 4.72
The Birds, movie, 2.166
Thermal expansion and contraction, 4.53
Thermoremanent magnetism (TRM), 5.39
Thin-film optics, 6.114
Thixotropic fluids, 2.58, 2.58
Throat singing, 3.6
Throw-in, football (soccer), 1.162, 1.228
Throwing cards, 2.10
Throwing hot water, 4.16, 4.16
Thrust SSC, 3.54, 6.28
Thunder, 3.56, 4.74
Tia Maria patterns, 2.89, 2.89
Tidal bores, 2.32
Tides, 2.32-2.34
Tiger beetles, optics, 6.115
Tigers, roaring, 3.10
Tightrope walking, 1.91
Tippy tops, 1.106
Tires
balancing, 1.176
distortion, 1.151
electric conduction, 5.9
squealing, 3.42
Toads, 1.27
Toast, tumbling, 1.99
Toilet paper tearing, 1.93
Toilets, 2.41, 5.52
Tomahawks, 1.29
Tomatoes, speckle on, 6.124
Tongue, on cold pole, 4.26
Tongue, stuck in bottle, 4.73
Tooth filling, electrical effect, 5.27
Tops, 1.104, 1.106, 1.107
Tornados
formation, 2.36, 2.37
green skies, 6.12
sparking, 5.29
Total internal reflection, 6.84
Towel popping sounds, 3.59
Toys, 1.25, 1.65, 1.68, 1.76, 1.85, 1.106, 1.108, 1.109,
1.160, 1.161, 1.61, 3.39, 3.78, 3.81, 4.52, 4.62, 6.65
Traffic, 1.2, 1.3
Train surfing, 1.199
Train tunnels, sonic booms, 3.55
Trains, 1.13, 1.72, 1.182, 2.3, 2.3 ,3.55
Transmission through envelope, 6.86
Transmission through shower door, 6.88, 6.88
Transparent animals, 6.90, 6.88
Transparent skin, 6.90, 6.88
Trebuchets, 1.31
Trees
falling, 1.69
oscillating, 1.132
water flow in, 2.136
Triboelectricity, 5.8, 5.53
Tritium gun sights, 6.161
Truck, falls onto car, 1.229
Truck, in strong wind, 1.227
Tug-of-war, 1.173
Tunnel fires, 4.95
Tunnels through Earth, 1.141, 1.141
Tunnels, pressure effects, 3.55, 4.72
Turkey, cooking, 4.80
Twilight duration, 6.142
Twilight purple light, 6.145
Twining plants, 1.206
Twinkies in UV light, 6.134
Twinkling stars, 6.32
Tyndall figures in ice, 4.22
U
Ultraviolet light and tee-shirts, 6.159
Ultraviolet, seeing in, 6.154
Umbrellas, optics, 6.104
Underwater hearing, 3.26
Underwater vision, 6.85, 7.18, 7.19
Unicycle riders, 1.116
Upward streamers, lightning, 5.1, 5.7
V
V-1 and V-2 rockets, sounds, 2.20, 3.54
Vacuum collapse, 4.54
van Gogh, Vincent, 6.47, 7.6
Variable displays, 6.109
Varnish, optics, 6.131
Vaseline in UV light, 6.134
Vegetables, musical, 3.91
Veins, blue, 6.123
Velvet, optics of, 6.132
Venus and the visual blister effect, 7.27
Venus, spokes seen on, 7.4
Vernal equinox and eggs, 1.138, 1.138
Verne, Jules, 6.93
Vikings, 6.30, 6.127
Violins
bowing, 3.34
flashing, 3.35
Viscoelastic creep, 1.142
Vision, insect, 6.117, 6.117
Vision, underwater, 6.85, 7.18, 7.19
Visual latency, 7.23
Volcanic sandblasting cockpit window, 6.105
Volcano, sparking, 5.30, 5.30
Volcanoes and sky colors, 6.8
Vortex, 2.23-2.25, 2.36-2.40
Vortex bottle, 2.168
Voss-Andreae, Julian, sculpture, 6.77
W
Wakes, water, 2.68
Walking on hot coals, 4.8, 4.9
Walking on water, 2.58, 2.80, 6.89
Wallis, Barnes, 1.94
Wall, climbing by robots, 5.54
Wall, hanging a bottle, 1.221
Wall mirage, 6.28, 6.28
Wall of Death, 1.211
Wammy doddle toy, 1.61
Washboard road, 1.185, 1.185
Water and block puzzle, 2.164
Water bells, 2.101
Water balloons, 4.94
Water freezing, sounds, 4.16, 4.16
Water sheets, 2.101
Water striders, 2.80, 2.85, 6.89
Water-walking insects, 2.85
Water waves, 2.73
Water wells, 4.92
Waterfalls, 2.118, 3.17
Watering during sunlight, 6.92
Waterspouts, 2.38
Wave building, 2.73
Wave suppression by rain, 2.133
Waves on falling stream, 2.100
Web, optics effects, 6.105
Weight lifting, 1.41
Weissenberg effect, 2.61
Welding, humps and beading, 2.81
Wet tee-shirt optics, 6.159
Wetting, 2.84, 2.93, 2.98
Whales, and bubbles, 2.79
Whales, sounds, 3.16
Whammy doddle toy, 1.61
Wheel of Death, 1.205
Whimmy doddle toy, 1.61
Whiplash injury, 1.14
Whip move, roller derby, 1.231
Whips, sounds, 3.59
Whirl-a-gig beetles, 6.115
Whispering, 3.22
Whispering galleries, 3.62, 3.63
Whiskey pub trick, 2.120
Whistlers
culvert, 3.77
Slinky, 3.78
Whistling, 3.3
Whiteouts, 6.55
Whoopee cushion noise, 3.89
William Tell overture, 3.86
Window cleaner fall, 1.49
Wind sounds, 3.1
Wind towers, 4.83
Wind, truck blow-over, 1.227
Wind-chill index, 4.56
Window scratches, optics, 6.105, 6.106
Window, glass flow, 2.57
Windows
air traffic controller’s, 6.63
multiple images in, 6.79
Windrows, 2.137
Windshield spots in polarized light, 6.129
Windshield, optics, 6.106
Wine, tears of strong, 2.88
Wineglass
bar trick with sound, 3.43
optics (caustics) of, 6.98
shattering with voice, 3.44, 3.44
singing, 3.43
Wing, race car aerodynamics, 2.1, 2.1
Wintergreen mint, glow, 5.19
Winter solstice, 6.23, 6.23
Wobbling coins and bottles, 1.110, 1.110
Woodpeckers, 1.10
World Trade Center collapses, 1.48
Worm grunting, 1.224
Wormholes in ice cubes, 4.21
Worst Hard Time, The, 5.29
Wrestling, 1.111
X
X rays, peeling tape, 5.17
Y
Yardangs, 2.112
Yard-of-ale, 2.120, 2.120
Yogurt (yoghurt) pattern, 2.159
Yo-yo, 1.85, 1.86
Z
Zodiacal light, 6.149
Index A-C
Index D-K
Index L-Q
Index R-S