Index J-K
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J
Jack O'Lanterns, optics, 6.157
Japanese samurai horo, cloth versus arrows, 1.130
Jar, frequency shift in noise when being filled, 3.46
Jay, Ricky, cards as weapons, 2.10
Javelin flight, 2.127
Jewelry
MRI complications, 5.42
precious stones
Alexandrite effect, color shift with lighting change, 6.96
diamonds, grim on bottom ruins sparkle on top, 6.94
nacre, optical interference, 6.116
opals, diffraction, 6.95, 6.95
pearls, optical interference, 6.116
star sapphire illusion, 6.93
Johnson, Junior, slingshot pass, car racing, 2.2
Joints, geological, 1.143
Jordon, Michael, basketball free throws while blindfolded, 1.33
Judas Priest, head banging, 1.11
Judo
foot sweep, 1.204
hip throw, 1.111
video of me, Newton's Apple show
video, calculations
landing properly, 1.55
Juggling, 1.25, 1.25
Julius Caesar, swimming escape from Egyptian army, 2.165
Jumping beans, self-launching beans, 1.39
K
Kaleidoscopes, reflection designs and symmetries, 6.65
Karate (tae-kwon-do)
breaking stacks of objects, 1.45, 1.45
Bruce Lee and the one-inch punch, 1.45
targeting a punch, 1.45, 1.45
video, calculations
Katrina, hurricane, buoyancy uplifting buildings and bridges, 2.156
Kayak roll, to rotate an up-side down kayak, 1.89
Kaye effect (leaping liquid streams), 2.60, 2.60
Kelvar (fabric) body armor, 1.130, 1.130
Kennedy, President John F., explosive reaction to lethal bullet, 1.146, 1.146
Ketchup,
cartesian diver with a packet, 2.172
non-newtonian fluid behavior due to applied stress, 2.58
Kiln, revealing the migration of Earth's magnetic field, 5.39
King crab Limulus vision, gradient index of refraction, 7.42
Kitchen
Also see Food
boiling water sounds, 3.51
cakes, high-altitude recipes, 4.71
cereal magnetism, 5.43, 5.43
chicken-fat oscillator, 2.154
circular pattern around falling stream, hydraulic jump, 2.29
coanda effect, clinging of water stream to curved surface, 2.50, 2.50
coffee
cup acoustics, 3.40
pattern on surface, 2.90
stain pattern on table top, 2.91, 2.91
colors in sink water flow, 6.125
cooking oil fire, danger of, 4.80
egg
behavior, fresh versus hard-boiled, 1.107, 1.107
bottle trick, 2.176
cooking
boiling, 4.44
scrambling, 4.50
flipping in tequila glass, 2.50
in bottle, 4.99
peeling, 2.176
standing on end, 1.138, 1.138
video of me, Cleveland State University
water climbing spinning egg, 2.28
electrostatics
parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme, 5.18
salt and pepper separation, 5.60
fluorescent light coloring thin flowing water layer, 6.125
food biting sounds (apples, tortilla chips), 3.52
food wrap
electrostatics, 5.34
polarizing sunglasses, birefringence, 6.129
frying potatoes, surface reactions, 2.96
heat pipe to transfer thermal energy into meat, 4.64
hot chocolate effect, pitch change while stirring powder, 3.40
video of me, Cleveland State University
hot water freezing before cooler water, 4.12, 4.12
hydraulic jump, circular shock wave in a sink, 2.29
ice cream, homemade, 4.41
ice cube worm holes, 4.21
inflating long sandwich bag, 2.174
ketchup pack as Cartesian diver, 2.172
Leidenfrost effects, 4.6, 4.6
lemon battery, 5.27
liquid rope coils of honey and other fluids, 2.62
meat colors
cooking, 4.45
in store, 6.135
iridescent, 6.135
meringue
insulation in baked Alaska and frozen Florida deserts, 4.98
pie, molecular bonds, air bubbles, water separation, copper bowls, 5.36
microwave heating, superheating danger, 4.48, 4.48
milk optical properties
clear band outlining shallow milk, 6.61
colors with milk drops in water, 6.111
kinetic speckle in shallow milk, 6.124
oil, patterns in heated, 2.90
pan, iridescent colors due to thin films, 6.114
paper straw stretch and crawl when wet, 2.171
parchment paper, curling when wet, 2.170
percolator, various designs 4.51
plastic food wrap electrostatics, 5.34
potato cooking with nails and heat pipes, 4.64
pressure cooker, 1.171
rice, lifting with a rod, pub trick, 2.125, 2.125
video of me, The Daily Planet show
soap bubble colors, 6.114
soup reversal after stirring, 2.59
teapot
effect, stream doubling back on spout, 2.51
video of me, The Daily Planet show
whistling, 3.3
toothpick trick with water, pub trick, 2.173
turkeys, deep frying dangers, 4.80
water bells, and sheets formed in falling water stream, 2.101
water stream, electrostatic deflection, 5.57
wine evaporation patter, 2.193
Kites, 2.6
Knitting needles in space, electrostatics, 5.55
Knots
hitches, role of friction, 1.59, 1.59
knot that is not a knot, 1.59
ring hitch, 1.223
Knight Rider stunt, car driven into moving truck, 1.226
Knuckle cracking, sound production, 3.48, 3.48
Korotkoff sounds, blood flow sounds in pressure measurements, 3.49
Krakatoa volcanic eruption
noctilucent clouds (luminous night clouds), first appearance, 6.59
Munch's The Scream, 6.8
sky colors, 6.8, 6.9
sound spread world wide, 3.74
Kursk submarine, remote detection of its explosion, 1.126
video, calculations