Extended Index
The Flying Circus of Physics,
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Macarney, Scott, ski jump accident, 2.7
Mach bands, 7.25
Maddison, Robbie, vertical motorcycle jump, 1.81
Magic tricks,
see Pub physics (below)
coin
disappearing, 6.84, 6.89
passing through small opening, 1.246
Criss Angel
floating, 1.210
walking on water, 6.89
disappearing cigarette, 1.57
impossible stairway at RIT, 1.258
lifting a person with fingers, 1.167
Penn and Teller, road kill, 1.203
reading through an envelope, 6.86
toothpick trick, 1.251
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 5.40
Magnet
breakfast cereal, 5.43, 5.43
cow, 5.43
electric guitar, 5.44
Garfield, bullet search in President, 5.41
lodestone, 5.38
tattoo, 5.42
toy, 5.58
Magnetic field
archaeology, 5.39
aurora, 5.46
diamagnetism, 5.48
Earth's magnetic field, 5.39
frog levitation, 5.48
kiln, 5.39
MRI complications, 5.40
red coal fires, 5.51
sounds, 5.49
Magnus effect (deflection of rotating object by passing air)
Flettner's ship (propulsion by rotating vertical cylinders), 2.145
football (soccer) banana kick (curved flight), 2.14, 2.14
golf ball lift due to rotation, 2.15
baseball deflections (drop, slider, four-finger fastball), 2.16
cricket (bounce, swing, reverse swing), 2.17
Mandrill monkey, colors due to surface structures, 6.115
Manet, Edouard, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere optics, 6.75, 6.75
Manhole explosion, 4.109
Map of physics, 1.250
Maps in clouds, 6.20, 6.20
Marangoni effect, flows due to surface tension
coffee patterns, 2.91
tears on walls of strong alcohol, 2.88
wine evaporation pattern, 2.193
Mars
dust devils, 2.39, 2.39
razorbacks, 5.53
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
cartoon, 4.99
ihtfp, 6.23
sunbeam along the infinite corridor, 6.23
water balloon slingshot wars, East Campus Dorm, 4.94
Mass dampers, building oscillations, 1.133, 1.133
Match tricks
burnt match trick, 4.105
leaping match, 1.256
matchstick rocket, 1.168
rotating matchstick, 5.8
Maxwell’s spot, visual effect, 7.45
Maze, mirror, 6.66, 6.66
Mayan pyramid echo, 3.65, 3.65
McCartney, Paul, possible message in reversed music, 3.86
Meandering rivers, 2.26, 2.26
Meandering thin streams, 2.149
Meat colors,
cooking, 4.45
in the store, 6.135
Medical physics
bacteria, electrically attracted, 5.31, 5.31
cataracts, Monet, impressionism, 7.10
colonoscopy, polyp removal with current, 5.26
current crowding, 5.25
current through body, 5.23
electrosurgery, 5.25
endoscope, 6.87
esophagoscopy, 6.87
fires and explosions, 5.26
gurney fire, due to gurney acting as a capacitor, 5.16, 5.16
hearing loss, loud noise, 3.30
Korotkoff sounds (during measuring of blood pressure), 3.49
magnetic search for bullet in President Garfield, 5.41
migraine headache phosphenes, 7.7
MRI, 5.40
sparking into patient, 5.8
stethoscope, 3.32
sword swallower, 6.87
ventricular fibrillation, electrocution, 5.23
Melon, catching with face (fake video), 2.169
Men in Black, upside down racing, 2.1
Meridian line in Paris church, optics, 6.23
Meringue
insulation in baked Alaska and frozen Florida desserts, 4.98
pie, molecular bonds, air bubbles, water separation, copper bowl, 5.36
Mermaids and mermen, 6.30
Merry-go-round, illusion of centrifugal force, 1.19
Meteor
bright nights, 6.148
strike, 1.37, 1.37
Methane explosion, lightning induced deep within a mine, 5.4
Microwave oven, heating in, superheating danger, 4.48, 4.48
Middle Eastern coffee, patterns, 2.91
Migraine induced phosphenes, 7.7
Milk, optical properties
clear band outlining shallow milk, 6.61
colors with milk drops in water, 6.111
kinetic speckle, 6.124
Miller Lite vortex bottle, 2.168
Mines
abandoned and frost circles on the ground, 4.96
coal fires, 5.51
explosion deep within a mine due to lightning, 5.4
Miniature golf, 1.75
Minnaert, Marcel, 6.50
Mirage
Fata Morgana, 6.30
hafgerdinger effect, 6.30
hillingar effect, 6.30
Marfa, Texas, 6.30
oasis, 6.28
roadway, 6.28, 6.28
wall mirage, 6.29
water monsters, mermen, mermaids, 6.30
Mirror
air-traffic controllers, 6.63
Archimedes's death ray, 6.81
Arthur C. Clark football story, referee death by mirrors, 6.82
breath figures and wetting, 2.92
car mirrors
rear-view, 6.73
side-view blind spot, 6.74, 6.74
Christmas tree ornaments
dark triangles, 6.68
pupil size, reflection effect, 7.28, 7.28
color rings in foggy mirror, 4.65
fogging process, 4.65
headless woman illusion, 6.62
illumination of town in midwinter darkness, 6.82
laser shoot-out game, 6.67
maze, 6.66, 6.66
mirror effects in art
Manet's A Bar at the Folies_Bergere, 6.75, 6.75
renaissance art, possible use, 6.76
Waterhouse's I Am Half Sick of Shadows , 6.75
multiple mirrors,
clothing store arrangement, 6.64
kaleidoscope, 6.65
labyrinth or maze, 6.66, 6.66
one-way, 6.72
Pepper's ghost illusion, 6.62
prank, 6.60
reflection, apparent left-right reversal, 6.60, 6.60
rotating a curved mirror, 6.152
space, orbiting mirror to shine on ground, 6.81, 6.82
stage mirror orientation, 6.61
wooden, 6.165
Missing-fundamental effect, 3.29
Mist, champagne and soda, 4.24
MIT
cartoon, 4.99
IHTFP, 6.23
sunbeam along the infinite corridor, 6.23
water balloon slingshot wars, East Campus Dorm, 4.94
MJS, 1.39
Mobile phones
fire, 5.9, 5.9
heating popcorn (fake video), 4.101
inside guitar, 3.94
lightning, 5.2
Mohole, 1.141
Mohorovicic, A., 1.141
Moire patterns, 7.12
silk on silk
fence behind fence
Molenaar, D., draining honey, yogurt, 2.159
Molten lead,
dreadful swallow, 4.7
Leidenfrost effects (dipping fingers into molten lead), 4.6, 4.6
video of me, The Tonight Show
Mona Lisa’s smile, 7.31
Monet, Claude, impressionism, 7.10
Monkey butt, colors due to surface structure, 6.115
Monster, mirage over water, 6.30
Moon (Earth's)
color,
blue moon, 6.50, 6.50
red during lunar eclipse, 6.26
white appearance instead of true gray, 7.53
corona (colored bands), 6.47
earthshine, 6.43, 6.43
face, we see only one, 1.186
figure eight trip to the Moon, 1.189
gravitational pull on Earth, 1.190
heiligenschein fear by NASA, 6.44
illusion of size, 7.1
lunar eclipse, 6.26
madness, 1.139
no twinkling like stars, 6.32
opposition brightening, 6.44
pillar, light, 6.35
pull on Earth, 1.190
seeing dark part, 6.43, 6.43
tides, 2.33
Moonbow, rainbow in moonlight, 6.2
Moose-car collisions, 1.215
Morning glory climbing a rod by twining, 1.207
Morpho butterfly colors, 6.115
Moth eyes, 6.117, 6.117
Motion illusion, 7.13, 7.13
Motorcycle
Ball of Death (circus stunt), 1.211
jumps
high (Robbie Maddison), 1.81
long, 1.81
turning, 1.80
Mount St. Helens, leaping sound waves, 3.18
Mountain
colors, 6.6
gravitational pull by Himalayans, 1.192
Mountaineering, 2.169
Mountain shadows, 6.36
Movies and television shows
2001, A Space Odyssey, vacuum exposure, 4.5, 4.5
A Christmas Story, tongue frozen on cold pipe, 4.26
Cosmic Zoom, powers of ten movie, 6.163
Crocodile Dundee II, bullroarer, 3.81
Dune, giant sand worms, worm grunting, 1.224
Goldfinger (James Bond), sucked through airplane window, 2.158
Groucho walking, 1.259
Indiana Jones, crystal skull testing, 1.208
Knight Rider, stunt car driven into moving truck, 1.226
Men in Black, upside down driving in tunnel, 2.1
Powers of Ten, 6.163
The Birds, flocking, 2.166
The Italian Job (original), bus balanced on cliff edge, 1.216
The Wizard of Oz, tornado, 2.36
Yellow Submarine, Blue Meanie illusion of size, 7.22
Mpemba effect (hot water freezing earlier than warm water), 4.12
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), 5.40, 5.40
Mud cracks, 4.68
Mud escape, 2.102
Munch, Edvard
Girls on the Pier, missing reflection of Moon, 6.61
The Scream, sky coloring due to explosion of Krakatoa, 6.8
Muons, cosmic rays and airplane flights, 7.46
Murmuring brooks, 3.45
Museum glass, 6.88
Mushroom catapulting of spores, 2.99
Mushroom cloud, 4.76
Music
aeolian tones, 3.2
Blue Man Group, 3.9
Blue Moon, 6.50
Blue Oyster Cult, scanning audience with lasers, 6.164
bottle resonance, 3.41, 3.41
Chladni singing, 2.141
Chuck Berry's duck walk, 1.259
conch shell, 3.36
corrugated tube, 3.39
crude noise music, 3.92
digeridoo, 3.37
Echo and the Bunneymen, The Killing Moon, 6.50
echoes, 3.65, 3.65
flute, 3.3
fruit instruments, 3.91
guitar string
normal oscillations, 3.33
video camera inside, 3.94
harmonic kiss, 3.4
hearing loss due to loud music, 3.30
helium singing choir, 3.5
Hendrix
amplifier distortion, 5.45
electric guitar, rewrapping wire in pickup coils, 5.44
Lone Ranger theme, road noise, 3.86
retinal detachment, heavy metal head banging, 1.11
road noise music, 3.88
Rogers and Hart, Blue Moon, 6.50
rude noise music, 3.92
shattering wine glass by singing, 3.44, 3.44
singing bowls, 2.74
soprano singing, 3.4
telephone wire singing in the wind, 3.2, 3.2
throat singing (overtone singing), 3.6
vegetable instruments, 3.91
violin
bowing, 3.34
illusion, 3.35
whistling, 3.3
wine glass
musical rubbing, 3.43, 3.43
video of me, Cleveland State University
shattering by voice, 3.44, 3.44
N
Nacre, peals, iridescent colors from interference, 6.116
Nacreous clouds, 6.144
Nails
bed of, 1.56, 1.56
potato cooking, 4.64
Negative lift, race car, 2.1
Negative afterimage, 7.15
Negative pressure, water lifted through trees, 2.136
Negative strike, common lightning strike, 5.4
Neon spreading ilusion, 7.13
Nestea grain behavior, 2.106
Neutron decay, 6.161
Newgrange megalithic mound
echoes, 3.66
solstice sunbeam reaching inner chamber, 6.23, 6.23
Newton's cradle toy, chain collisions in adjacent pendulums, 1.42
Newton's first law of motion (man flies through windshield), 1.253
Niagara Falls, falling over and surviving, 1.195
Night brightness, 6.148
Nimitz Freeway collapse, 2.103, 2.103
Noctilucent clouds (luminous night clouds), 6.59
Noise
cocktail party effect, 3.29
enhancing sound, 3.31
fingernails on chalkboard, 3.42
video, demonstration
hearing loss, 3.30
jar being filled, frequency shift, 3.46
neighbors, upstairs, heels on wood floor, 3.68
road noise turned into music, 3.88
rude noises (toilet noises), 3.93
Non-Newtonian fluids
ballpoint ink, 2.58, 2.58
butter, 2.58
cornstarch slurry, 2.58, 2.58
die swell, 2.58
ketchup, 2.58
liquid rope coils, 2.62
one-coat paint, 2.58
rod-climbing liquid, 2.61
silicone putty, 2.58
Slime, 2.58
soup reversal after stirring, 2.59
Nose blocking the view, rhino-optical effect, 7.21
Nude in shower optics, 6.88
O
Oasis mirage, 6.28, 6.28
Ocean
Bay of Fundy tide, 2.34
beach,
cusps, 2.72
sand, 2.102
bow riding by porpoises and dolphins, 2.70, 2.70
brightness, 6.140
colors, 6.38
dead water, 2.35, 2.35
deep diving ascents, 2.52
glitter, 6.37, 6.39, 6.140
iceberg, green, 6.53
straits, Gibraltar, Messina, Sicily, 2.146
submarine, escape from, 2.54
surfing, 2.69
tides, 2.33, 2.34
wakes, ducks and ships, 2.63
waves,
diffraction, 2.66, 2.165
generation, 2.63
rogue, 2.64, 2.64
whales and bubble nets, 2.79
Oil paintings, depth in, 7.14
Oil fire, 4.80, 4.80
Oil slicks, colors, 6.114
Oil stains on road, 2.151
Oil, calming waves, 2.73, 2.73
Oil, patterns in heated, 2.90
Olive in swirling martini, 2.25
Ommatidia, insect eye facets, 6.117
One-inch punch, 1.45
One-wheel vehicle, stabilized by gyroscope, 1.219
One-way mirrors, 6.72
Op art, 7.13, 7.13
Opals, colors due to diffraction, 6.95, 6.95
Opal-like coloring of beetle, 6.95
Opposition brightening of the Moon, 6.44
Optically variable graphics in passports and driving licenses, 6.109
Orchard spraying, freeze prevention, 4.15
Orchestra pit acoustics, 3.61
Orifice tone whistling, 3.3
Origami, liquid, 2.170
Ornament reflection
dark triangle between adjacent reflecting spheres, 6.68
reflection switches from a point to a line, 7.28, 7.28
Oscillations
See also Pendulums
arrow when shot, 1.131
backpack on bungee cords, 1.196
baseball bat, 1.23
bridge
footbridge, 1.124, 1.124
Le point de Normandie bridge, 2.129
London Millennium Bridge, 1.124, 1.124
Tacoma Narrows bridge, 2.4, 2.4
building, 1.133, 1.133
bull riding, 1.92
car antenna, 1.183
car on corrugated road, 1.185, 1.185
chicken-fat oscillator, 2.154
dance floor, 1.124
eye oscillations, humming, stroboscopic effects, 7.8, 7.8
flags, 2.117
fountains, 2.118
guitar string
normal oscillations, 3.33
video camera inside guitar, distorted oscillations, 3.94
grain and tall grass, 6.45
head during building swaying, 1.133
headbanging, 1.11
human slingshot (intoxicated SHM), 1.276
hydraulic oscillator, 2.142
incense swing, 1.114, 1.114
loads on long shoulder poles, 1.118
mass dampers, 1.133, 1.133
Nimitz Freeway collapse, 2.103, 2.103
notched rod with rotor, 1.161, 1.161
pendulum in the pit, Poe, 1.115
plants, pole across the shoulders, 1.118, 1.196
pumping playground swing, 1.113
salt oscillator, 2.134
sloshing, 2.67
springboard in springboard diving, 1.134
Tibetan singing bowls, 2.74
tops, 1.104
trees, 1.132
Wilberforce pendulum, 1.150
wobbling coin, 1.110
Ostwald ripening (merging)
bubbles and foam, 2.77, 4.70
ice crystals in stored ice cream, 4.41
Otoacoustic emissions, sound emitted by ears, 3.28
Ouzo effect, color shifting of alcoholic drink, pub trick, 6.113, 6.113
Overtone singing (throat singing), 3.6
Oxbow lake, formation by meandering rivers, 2.26