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 pouring, rotating platform, 1.242
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
Tibetan singing bowls, 2.74
Tides, 2.33
Bay of Fundy, 2.34
tidal bores, 2.32
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
Toothpick trick, 1.251
Tops,
eggs, spinning, 1.107
personalities, 1.104
tippy top, 1.106
Tornados
formation, 2.36, 2.37, 2.36
green skies, 6.12
sparking, 5.29
Total internal reflection, 6.84
Totems, 1.239
Towel popping sounds, 3.59
Toys,
bullroarer, Australian, 3.81
diabolo, 1.108
domino, 1.68
dunking bird, 4.62
fiddlestrick, 1.160
hula hoop, 1.84
inverting top, 1.106
juggling, 1.25
kaleidoscope, 6.65
leaning tower of blocks, 1.66
putt-putt boat, 4.52, 4.52
rattleback, 1.109, 1.109
rotor on notched stick, 1.161, 1.161
slinky, 1.65, 3.78
Super Ball, 1.76
tippy top, 1.106, 1.106
top, 1.104
tube, singing corrugated, 3.39
yo-yo, 1.85-1.86
Traffic, 1.2, 1.3
Trains,
collision, 1.13
hunting (searching) by wheels, 1.182
jackknifing, 1.72
passing trains, aerodynamics, 2.3, 2.3
sonic boom, tunnel, 3.55
train surfing, 1.199
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
in strong wind, 1.227
loading and unloading, novel, 1.164
Tug-of-war, 1.173
Tumbleweeds, 2.186
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,
Anableps anableps, 7.19
fish seeing fisherman, 6.85
humans, penguins, crocodiles, 7.18
Unicycle riders, 1.116
Upside down racing, 2.1
Upward streamers, lightning, 5.1, 5.7
V
V-1 and V-2 rockets,
flipping by British pilots, 2.20
sounds (sonic boom), 3.54
Vacuum collapse, 4.54
van Gogh, Vincent, 6.47, 7.6, 7.54
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
V formation, birds, 2.18
Videos, fake
catching a melon with your face, 2.169
cell phones popping popcorn, 4.101
liquid mountaineering, 2.169
Nike football commercial, 1.78
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
Volcano
sandblasting cockpit window, 6.105
shock waves, 3.54
sky colors, 6.8
sparking, 5.30, 5.30
Vortex
bath tub, 2.23
bottle, 2.168
cannon, 2.40
coffee cup, 2.24
dust devils, 2.39
fire devil, 4.82
fog devils, 2.39
ring, 2.40
steam devils, 2.39
tea leaves and alives, 2.25
tornado, 2.36
tornado, looking up into, 2.37
waterspouts, 2.38
Voss-Andreae, Julian, sculpture, 6.77
W
Wakes, water, 2.68
Walking on hot coals, 4.8, 4.9
Walking or running on water,
Criss Angel magic act, 6.89
liquid mountaineering (fake video), 2.169
lizards, 2.42, 2.58, 2.169
water and corn starch slurry, 2.58
water striders, 2.80, 2.85, 2.169
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
Waterhouse, John William, 6.75
Water, free standing, 2.181
Water, running or walking on,
Criss Angel magic act, 6.89
liquid mountaineering (fake video), 2.169
lizards, 2.42, 2.58, 2.169
water and corn starch slurry, 2.58
water striders, 2.80, 2.85, 2.169
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,
bird droppings on car, 2.98
coffee stains, 2.91, 2.91
cookie dunking, 2.95
drops and films on solids, 2.84
lotus effect, 2.93
paintbrushes and hair, 2.95
sandcastles, 2.86
Whales, and bubbles, 2.79
Whales, sounds, 3.16
Whammy doddle toy, 1.61
Wheel of Death, 1.205
Wheel, rotating, image, 1.247
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, 3.77
Slinky, 3.78
Whistling, 3.3
Whiteouts, 6.55
Whoopee cushion noise, 3.89
Widget, Guinness, 2.76
Witchita Lineman, 3.2
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
optics, 6.106, 6.106
spots in polarized light, 6.129
thrown through, 1.253
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
Wires, sound from, 3.2
Wobbling coins and bottles, 1.110, 1.110
Wooden mirrors, 6.165
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, 1.85
Z
Zodiacal light, 6.149
Index A-C
Index D-K
Index L-Q
Index R-S