Extended Index
The Flying Circus of Physics,
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A
Abandoned mines, 4.96
Acceleration records, 1.11
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, 1.18, 2.20, 2.46, 2.155
crash into wall, 1.12
discharging, 5.29
landing on water, 1.218
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 bullets, 2.155, 2.158
Airplane window hole, 2.158
Airplane wing shock front, 6.100
Aldrete, Gregory, armor, 1.130
Alice in Wonderland 1.141
Ale, 2.120
Alexander the Great, 1.130, 2.165
Alexandria harbor, 2.165
Alexandrite effect, 6.96
Alligator death roll, 1.209
Alpine glow, 6.145
Aluminum foil and tooth, 5.27
Amplifier, electric guitar, 5.45
Amusement park, 1.19, 1.19, 1.177
Anableps anableps, vision, 7.19
Anamorphic art, 6.77, 6.77
Ancient constructions,
Easter Island statues, erecting, 1.62
Echoes and acoustic resonance, 3.65-3.66
Egyptian pyramids, erecting, 1.64
Newgrange, acoustics, 6.66
Newgrange, roofbox optics, 6.23, 6.23
Stonehenge, erecting, 1.63
Temple of Kukulkan, echoes, 3.65
Anderson, Paul, lifting, 1.41
Andes glow, 5.21
Angel, Criss, magic, 1.210, 6.89
Antenna oscillation, 1.183
Antibubbles, 2.124
Anticounterfeiting, optics, 6.109, 6.119
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
Armadillo huddling, 4.4
Armor, body, 1.130, 1.130
Arrow catching, 7.9
Art,
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
impression, 7.10
kaleidoscope, 6.65
Mach bands, 7.25
Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 6.75, 6.75
Mona Lisa's smile, 7.31
Munch's The Scream, 6.8
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
Aspen trees, colors, 6.121
Astronaut maneuvering, 1.97
Atlatl, 1.27
Audience scanning, 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 coins, dollar bill, bottles, 1.91, 1.164
Balancing
baseball bat, 1.239
bricks, 1.239
chair, 1.239
coins, 1.239
Chinese totems, 1.239
rods, circus act, 1.238
stones and bowling balls, 1.201
toys, 1.239
truck turning, 1.239
two-finger handstand, 1.239
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, 1.21-1.23, 1.23, 1.43, 2.16
humidifying, 1.23
seeing the ball, 7.9
Basilisk lizard, 2.42, 2.58, 6.89
Basketball, 1.33, 1.33-1.35, 1.43, 1.228
Bathroom,
colored rings in misty mirror, 6.110
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 cusps, 2.72
Beach sand
sounds, 2.69
wetness, 2.102
Beach 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
attack on hornet, 4.3
electrical effects, 5.32
navigation, 7.38
vision, 7.54
Beetles
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, 2.50
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
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
Book spinning, 1.96
Boomerang, 2.9
Booming sand, 3.69, 3.69
Bottle resonance, 3.41, 3.41
Bore, tidal, 2.32
Bottle cap, beer spots, 2.190
Bottle resonance, 3.41
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
Breakfast physics,
acoustics, coffee cup, 3.40
acoustics, breakfast cereal, 3.53
bad coffee appearance, 2.87
cereal grain attraction, 2.85, 2.85
cereal magnetism, 6.130, 6.l30
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