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A
Abandoned mines, 4.96
Acceleration records, 1.11
Accidents,
Airplane crash landing on water, 1.218
Airplane, sucked from, 2.158
Bridge collapse, 1.214, 2.4, 2.4
Bunk-bed death, 1.260
Burning hospital gurneys, 5.16
Camel-car collision, 1.215
Car crashes, 1.12
Cars sliding on ice, 1.202
Cat, long fall, 1.51
Cranes falling down, 1.206
Empire State Building, airplane crash, 1.54
Feline high-rise syndrome, 1.51
Fuel fires at fueling stations, 5.9
Head-banging, detached retina, 1.11
Lightning -- people, cows, sheep, 5.2
Manhole explosions, 4.109
Methane explosion, 5.4
Mine explosions due to lightning, 5.4
Moose-car collision, 1.215
Pedestrian throw by car, 1.215
Quicksand, 2.102, 2.102
Railroad tanker collapse, 4.54
Rogue waves, 2.64
Ski jump, 2.7
Skywalk collapse, 1.47
Submerged car escape, 2.189
Sucked from airplane, 2.158
Sugar plant explosion, 5.11
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, 2.4, 2.4
Tattoos and MRI, 5.40
Thrown through windshield, 1.253
Truck falls on car, 1.229
Truck fast turning, 1.239
Tunnel fire, 4.95
Turkeys, fire while cooking, 4.80
Window cleaner fall, 1.49
Acoustic mirror effect, bats, 3.24
Acoustic mirrors, 3.85
Acoustic resonance bar trick, 3.43
Acoustic sculpture, 3.86
Acoustic shadows, 3.19, 3.19
Adhesive tape glow, 5.17, 5.17
Adherence by water, 1.57, 1.57
Aeolian tones, 3.2
Aerosol can, flame from, 5.12
Afterimages, 7.15, 7.15, 7.16
Ahlborg, Nadia 1.141
Aikido, 1.55, 1.111
Airbag, 1.46
Air-mix machine, 2.162
Air traffic controller’s windows, 6.63, 6.79
Aircraft,
bullets, 2.155, 2.158
contrails, 2.20
crash into wall, 1.12
discharging, 5.29
g-loc in pilots, 2.46
landing on water, 1.218
running out of fuel, 1.18
shooting yourself down, 2.155
shock front, 6.100
sucked from an airplane, 2.158
volcano effect on, 6.105
Aircraft carrier of ice, 2.160
Aircraft carrier, takeoff, 1.17
Air bag, 1.46
Air blast, 3.58
Airplane, see Aircraft (above)
Aldrete, Gregory, armor, 1.130
Ale, 2.120
Alexander the Great, 1.130, 2.165
Alexandria harbor, 2.165
Alexandrite effect, 6.96
Alice in Wonderland 1.141
Alligator death roll, 1.209
Alpine glow, 6.145
Aluminum foil and tooth, 5.27
Amplifier, electric guitar, 5.45
Amusement park,
carnival bottle swing, 1.177
Ferris wheel, 1.19, 1.19
flea circus, 1.200
roller coaster, scariest car, 1.19, 1.19
Anableps anableps, vision, 7.19
Anamorphic art, 6.77, 6.77
Ancient constructions,
Alexandria harbor, 2.165
Easter Island statues, erecting, 1.62
Echoes and acoustic resonance, 3.65-3.66
Egyptian pyramids, erecting, 1.64
Mayan pyramid echoes, 3.65
Newgrange, acoustics, 6.66
Newgrange, roofbox optics, 6.23, 6.23
Rock-art echoes, 3.66, 3.66
Stonehenge, erecting, 1.63
Temple of Kukulkan, echoes, 3.65, 3.65
Anderson, Paul, lifting, 1.41
Andes glow, 5.21
Angel, Criss, magic, 1.210, 6.89
Animals
alligator
death roll, 1.209
gastroliths, 2.49
anableps anableps vision, 7.19
ant, desert navigation, 6.128, 6.128
armadillo huddling, 4.4, 4.4
basilisk lizard, run on water, 2.42, 2.58, 6.89
bats,
detection of insect, 3.24, 3.24
detection of flower, 3.25
bees
electrical effects, 5.32
navigation, 7.38
thermal attack on hornet, 4.3, 4.3
Van Gogh painting, 7.54
beetle,
bombardier, 2.50
click, leaping, 1.40
colors, 6.115, 6.95, 6.158
bird
flocking, 2.166
vee formation in flying, 2.18
butterfly
colors, 6.115
vision, 6.117, 6.117
camels jumping over 1.38
cat,
charged, 5.8
chimney climbing, 1.60
falling, 1.51, 1.51
purring, 3.8
rotating, 1.97
chiton, mineral eyes, 7.51
dinosaur sound, 3.9, 3.9
dog, charged, 5.8
dolphin, bow wave riding, 2.70, 2.70
elephant, snorkeling, 2.53
fly, in gun blast, 2.185
frog, transparent, 6.90
giraffe, blood pressure, 2.47
hornet, killed thermally by bees, 4.3, 4.3
insects,
polarized light, windows, 6.126
water walking, 2.85, 2.85
mollusk, mineral eyes, 7.51
moth
jumping beans, 1.39, 1.39
vision, 6.117, 6.117
penguin
huddling, 4.4, 4.4
leaping, 1.197
vision, 7.18
voices, 3.15
platypus, electric field detection, 5.56
porpoise, bow wave riding, 2.70, 2.70
prairie dog, 2.22
scorpion, wave detection, 1.127, 1.127
sand worms of Dune, 1.224
shrimp, fatal acoustic wave, 3.50, 3.50
snakes,
clinging, 1.243
gliding, 2.12
infrared detection by, 4.1, 4.1
slithering, 1.233
squirrels, 4.1
squirrel versus snake, 4.1
water striders, 2.85, 2.85
Antenna oscillation, 1.183
Antibubbles, 2.124
Anticounterfeiting
color-shifting inks, 6.119, 6.119
optically variable devices, 6.109
Ants
electrical effects, 5.33
navigation, 6.128, 6.128, 7.38
nest ventilation, 2.22
Aphids, 2.94
Apple piles, pressure under, 2.140
Apples, speckle on, 6.124
Aquatic insects, 2.80, 6.115, 6.126, 7.38
Arago spot, 6.151, 6.151
Arch formation in granular flow, 2.105, 2.107
Archaeology, magnetic effects, 5.39
Archer fish, 6.85
Archery, 1.131, 7.9
Archimedes death ray, 6.81
Architecture
see Ancient Structures (above),
see Buildings (below)
Katrina Hurricane, New Orleans, 2.156
Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1.67, 1.67
Armadillo huddling, 4.4
Armor, body, 1.130, 1.130
Arrow catching, 7.9
Art,
acoustic sculpture, 3.86
anamorphic art, 6.77, 6.77
bees and, 7.54
Bue Meanies in The Yellow Submarine, 7.22
depth in oil paintings, 7.14
glossy velvet and varnish, 6.131
impressionism, 7.10
kaleidoscope, 6.65
Mach bands, 7.25
Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 6.75, 6.75
Missing moon in Munch painting, 6.61
Mona Lisa's smile, 7.31
Munch's Girls on the Pier, 6.61
Munch's The Scream, 6.8
Op art, 7.13, 7.13
pointillistic paintings, 7.11
poured, 2.188
Renaissance art and optical projectors, 6.76
Rower, Holten, poured art, 2.188
Seddon's Pyramids of Gizeh, 6.15
traffic control, 6.77
van Gogh's Red Vineyard at Arles, 6.47, 7.6
van Gogh's Starry Night, 7.6
van Gogh's Sunflowers, 7.54
Waterhouse's I am half sick of shadows, 6.75
Wigan's miniature art, 5.8
Aspen trees, colors, 6.121
Astronaut maneuvering, 1.97
Atlatl, 1.27
Atmospheric physics
art, 6.15
blue moon, 6.50, 6.50
city lights, 6.17, 6.17
earthshine, 6.43, 6.43
ice blink, 6.20, 6.20
mirage, 6.28, 6.28
moonbow, 6.2, 6.2
rainbow, 6.1, 6.1
red sky, Australia, 6.5
Audience scanning, lasers, 6.164
Auroras
formation, 5.46
sounds, 3.80
Australian red dawn, 6.5
Avalanche balloon, 2.109, 2.109
Avalanches, snow, 2.114
Avalanche victim, sounds, 3.71
B
Backdrafts, 4.79
Backpacks on bungees, 1.196
Bacteria and electric field, 5.8, 5.8
Bacteria and surgery, 5.31
Baked Alaska, 4.98
Balancing
baseball bat, 1.239
bicycle, 1.239
blocks, 1.66
bottle on cigarette lighter, 1.164
bowling balls, 1.201
bricks, 1.239
building, 1.204
building cranes, 1.206
bus, The Italian Job movie, 1.216
car and train surfing, 1.199
chair, 1.239
climbing stairs on your head, 1.254
coin on folded paper edge, 1.91
coins, 1.239
Chinese totems, 1.239
dominoes and domino amplifier, 1.68
eggs, 1.138
hammer, 1.217
lorry, 1.217
rods, circus act, 1.238
stones and bowling balls, 1.201
toys, 1.239
truck turning, 1.239
two-finger handstand, 1.239
unicycle, 1.116
Ball bouncing, 1.76, 1.76
Ball in stream, 2.144, 2.144
Ball lightning, 5.5, 5.5
Ballet, 1.35, 1.100
Ballistospore fungi catapult, 2.99
Ball of Death, 1.211
Balloons
ascent, 2.56
bursting, 1.212
inflating, 4.70
in stream, 2.144
flying with, 2.56, 2.56
Banana, potassium-40, 4.101
Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 6.75, 6.75
Barchan dunes, 2.111
Barroom physics, see Pub physics
Bartell, Scott, armor, 1.130
Baseball,
aerodynamics, 2.16
baseball and basketball falling together, 1.43
catching fly ball, 1.21
ball dropped from great height, 1.22
hitting a baseball, 1.23
humidifying, practice of, 1.23
seeing the ball in flight, 7.9
Basilisk lizard, 2.42, 2.58, 6.89
Basketball,
baseball and basketball falling together, 1.43
free throw, 1.33, 1.33, 1.34
hang time, 1.35,
spin, use of, 1.228
Bathroom,
bathtub optics, 6.85
colored rings in misty mirror, 6.110
electric field in toilet stall, 5.52
electrostatic charging by splashing, 5.13
eyeglass condensation, 4.66
mirrors, foggy, 4.65
plumbing rumbling, 3.47
sausage shadow effect, 6.99
shadows in the water, 6.99
shaver cuttings on water, 2.150
shower curtain, flutter, 2.21
shower-door optics, 6.88
steam devils, 2.39
toilets, 2.41
viewing through water surface, 6.85
vortex, bathtube, 2.23
wet towel popping, 3.59
Bats, sound detection by, 3.24, 3.24, 3.25
Battery, lemon, 5.27
Bay of Fundy, 2.34
Beach physics
cusps, 2.72
sand sounds, 2.69
reflection glitter, 6.39
sand wetness, 2.102
stone skipping, 1.94
surfing, 2.69
surf skimmer, 2.130
waves, 2.65, 2.69, 2.72
Bead lightning, 5.5
Beading on liquid threads, welding, 2.81
Beamon, Bob, record long jump, 1.38
Beano stick, 1.161
Beanstalk, 1.137
Béarnaise sauce, 5.37
Beating of penguin sounds, 3.15
Beatles
Blue Meanies, 7.22
Paul is Dead, 3.86
Bed of nails, 1.56, 1.56
Bedouins, black robes, 4.59
Beer, see also Pub physics
beer boot, 2.120
bottle caps, 2.190
bubble paths, 2.123,
bubbles, 2.76, 2.76,
can, crushed, 1.229
cooling by evaporation, 4.61
fast pouring, 2.194
fizzing, 3.84
foam, 2.77,
freezing, 4.24, 4.24
glass, optics of, 6.136
beer spots on bottle caps, 2.190
yard-of-ale, 2.120, 2.120
Bees,
electrical effects, 5.32
navigation, 7.38
thermal attack on hornet, 4.3, 4.3
van Gogh's Sunflowers, 7.54
vision, 7.54
Beetles
click beetle, 1.40
colors, 6.115, 6.158
fog basking, 4.67
optics, 6.115, 6.95
remote fire sensing by, 4.2
somersaults, 1.40
Beever, Julian, sidewalk art, 6.77
Bell, Alexander Graham, 5.41
Bell, cathedral, 1.121
Belt of Venus, 6.14
Benard cells, 2.90
Bends, 2.52
Bergship (iceberg aircraft carrier), 2.160
Bergy seltzer, 3.70
Bernoulli effect,
ball floating in air stream, 2.144
passing trains, 2.3
reversing egg, 2.50
upside down racing, 2.1
Berry, Michael, 7.28, 7.28
Beta emission, 4.101, 6.161
Bicycles, 1.20, 1.80
Bicycle wheel rotation image, 1.247
Big Bertha artillery, 1.136
Big-horn sheep, 1.10, 1.61
Billiard shots, 1.74
Birds
droppings, 2.98, 5.22
flight, 2.18, 2.18
flocks, 2.166
spinning, 2.27
transmission lines, 2.98, 5.22
Bishop’s ring, 6.9
Black robes in desert, 4.59
Black velvet, optics, 6.131
Blind spot
side-view mirror, 6.74, 6.74
vision, 7.3, 7.3
Blister effect, visual, 7.27
Block stacking, 1.66
Blood cells, seeing motion, 7.4
Blood pressure sounds, 3.49
Blood veins, color, 6.123
Blowguns, 1.244
Blue arcs, visual, 7.44
Blue jay, colors, 6.115
Blue Meanies, visual effects, 7.22
Blue moon, 6.50, 6.50
Blue mountains, 6.6
Blue ribbon, sea horizon’s, 6.141
Blue skin, 6.115, 6.122,
Boats,
drawn together, 2.128
canal water level, 2.30
dead water, 2.35, 2.35
dry dock, 2.45
lead bar in boat, puzzle, 2.43
sailboats, 2.161
wakes, 2.68
Bobsleds, 1.155
Body armor, 1.130, 1.130
Boiling water ordeal, 4.88
Boiling water
process, 4.43
sounds, 3.51
Bolas, 1.30
Bomb, rotating, 1.94, 1.94
Bombardier beetle, 2.50, 250
Bond, James, movie, 2.158
Books,
Alice in Wonderland, falling through Earth, 1.141
The Desert of Ice, Jules Verne, ice lens, 6.93
The Little Prince, gravitation, 1.157
The Worst Hard Time, electric discharge, 5.29
Book spinning, 1.96
Boomerang, 2.9
Booming sand, 3.69, 3.69
Bore, tidal, 2.32
Bottle cap, beer spots, 2.190
Bottle resonance,
Blue Man group, 3.9
dinosaur resonance, 3.9, 3.9
tapping, buzzing, blowing, 3.41, 3.41
whistlers, 3.77, 3.77
Bottle, wobbling, 1.110
Bouncing liquid streams, 2.60
Bowling, 1.73
Bowling balls, stacking, 1.201
Bowling in game of cricket, 2.17
Bow-wave riding, porpoise, 2.70
Boxing, 1.46, 1.46
Boyle's perpetual motion machine, 1.261
Bragg scattering, acoustic, 3.86
Brain damage, football (soccer), 1.241
Braking, car, 1.5-1.9, 1.152
Brazil-nut effect, 2.108, 2.108
Breakfast physics,
acoustics, coffee cup, 3.40
acoustics, breakfast cereal, 3.53, 3.53
bad coffee appearance, 2.87
biscuit dunking, 2.95
cereal grain attraction, 2.85, 2.85
cereal magnetism, 5.43, 5.43
Cheerios effect, 2.85, 2.85
coffee cup acoustics, 3.40
coffee patterns on surface, 2.90
coffee appearance, 2.87
coffee, cooling rates, 4.60
coffee, drinking hot, 4.42
cookie dunking, 2.95
egg tricks, 1.107, 1.107, 2.50, 2.176
honey and yogurt draining patters, 2.159
liquid rope coils of honey, 2.62
magnetism of cereal, 5.43, 5.43
snap, crackle and pop, 3.53, 3.53
sound of breakfast cereal, 3.53, 3.53
spinning eggs, 1.107, 1.107
tea leaf effect, 2.25
teapot effect, 2.51
tumbling toast, 1.99, 1.99
vortex, coffee cup, 2.24
Bridges,
footbridge oscillation, 1.124, 1.124
Golden Gate Bridge, flattening, 1.181
I-95 bridge collapse, 1.71
London Millennium Bridge oscillations, 1.124, 1.124
Tacoma Narrows, Bridge collapse 2.4, 2.4