Extended Index
The Flying Circus of Physics,
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Index D-K
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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
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
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
Alice in Wonderland 1.141
Ale, 2.120
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, 1.62-1.64, 3.65, 3.66, 6.23
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
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
Arrow catching, 7.9
Art, 6.8, 6.47, 6.75-6.77, 6.87, 6.88, 6.131, 7.6, 7.10, 7.11,
714, 7.25, 7.31
Aspen trees, colors, 6.121
Astronaut maneuvering, 1.97
Atlatl, 1.27
Auroras
formation, 5.46
sounds, 3.80
Australian red dawn, 6.5
Avalanche balloon, 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 stones and bowling balls, 1.201
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
Barchan dunes, 2.111
Barroom physics, see Pub physics
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, charging, 5.13
Bathtub optics, 6.85, 6.99
Bathtub vortex, 2.23
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
Beever, Julian, sidewalk art, 6.77
Bed of nails, 1.56, 1.56
Bedouins, black robes, 4.59
Beer boot, 2.120
Beer bottle, see Pub tricks
Beer can, crushed, 1.229
Beer bubbles, 2.76, 2.76, 2.77, 2.123, 3.84
Beer glass, optics, 6.136
Beer, freezing, 4.24, 4.24
Bees
attack on hornet, 4.3
electrical effects, 5.32
navigation, 7.38
Beetles
colors, 6.115, 6.158
fog basking, 4.67
optics, 6.115, 6.95
remote fire sensing by, 4.2
somersaults, 1.40
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
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
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
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
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, 2.128, 2.30, 2.43, 2.45
Bobsleds, 1.155
Body armor, 1.130
Boiling water ordeal, 4.88
Boiling water
process, 4.43
sounds, 3.51
Bolas, 1.30
Bomb, rotating, 1.94, 1.94
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 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
Boxing, 1.46, 1.46
Bragg scattering, acoustic, 3.86
Braking, car, 1.5-1.9, 1.152
Brazil-nut effect, 2.108
Breakfast physics, 1.99, 1.107, 2.24, 2.25, 2.51, 2.62,
2.85, 2.85, 2.87, 2.90, 2.159, 3.40, 3.53, 4.42, 4.60, 5.43
Breath figures, 2.92, 4.65
Bridges, 1.71, 1.124, 1.124, 1.181, 1.214, 2.4
Bright nights, 6.148
Brightness of wet materials, 6.52
Brontides, 3.57
Brush fires, 4.81
Brush, wet, 2.95
Buchanan, M., honey, yogurt 2.159
Bubbles
and antibubbles, 2.124
and whales, 2.79
beer and champagne, 2.76, 2.76, 2.77, 2.123, 4.72, 6.130
bursting, 2.78
paths of, 2.123
soap, 2.77, 2.122
sounds, 3.84
Buildings
aerodynamics, 2.5
demolition, 1.24
oscillating, 1.133, 1.133
Bull riding, 1.92
Bullet, 1.112, 1.112, 1.146, 1.174
Bullet backsplatter, 1.146
Bullfrog croaking, 3.11
Bullroarer, sounds, 3.81
Bullwhips, sounds, 3.59
Bungee jumping, 1.52
Buoyancy, hurricane damage, 2.156
Buoyancy in a turn, 2.131
Burning mirror, 6.81, 6.82
Burnt rocks and Earth's magnetic field, 5.51
Bursting balloon, 1.212
Bus, balanced on edge, 1.216
Butterflies
colors, 6.115
eyes, 6.117, 6.117
C
Cable aerodynamics, 2.129
Cabin pressure, 2.158
Caddis flies, 6.126
Caesar, Julius, 2.165
Cakes, high-altitude recipes, 4.71
Camel throw, 1.215
Campfire smoke, colors, 6.112
Camphor boats, 2.150
Canal effect,2.30
Candle flames, 4.78
glow around, 7.6
Caine, Michael, 1.216
Cannonball Richards, 1.46
Carbon dioxide, Lake Nyos, 2.55
Carbonated drinks, freezing, 4.24
Card throwing, 2.10, 2.10
Carrying a load, 1.117, 1.118, 1.124, 1.124
Car, 1.2-1.9, 1.12, 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.87, 1.151, 1.153, 1.175,
1.176, 2.1, 2.2, 4.84, 5.3, 5.3, 5.9, 6.73, 6.74
Car collisions, 1.12
Car, crushed, 1.229
Car fire, 5.9, 5.9
Car, heating in closed, 4.84
Car, lightning strike to, 5.3
Car, rain on rear window, 1.1
Car sickness and infrasound, 3.74
Car, sparking, 5.9
Car spin out, 1.6, 1.6
Car, stopping on ice, 1.202
Car surfing, 1.199
Carroll, Lewis, 1.141
Cartoon, MIT, 4.99
Cat eye reflections, 7.17
Catapults, 1.31, 2.99
Catastrophe theory, 6.98
Caterpillars, colors of tent, 6.115
Cats, falling, 1.51, 1.51, 1.97, 1.97
Caustics, 6.98
Cave acoustics, 3.66
Cell phone
fire, 5.9, 5.9
heating, 4.101
lightning, 5.2
Celt stones, 1.109
Cereal,
magnetic effects, 5.43
sounds of, 3.53
Chain collision, 1.42-1.44, 1.202
Chakraborty, S., 1.141
Chalkboard, fingers scrapping, 3.42
Champagne, 2.76-2.78, 3.84, 2.123, 4.72
Champagne cork, 1.225
Charging, electric, 5.8-5.15
Charged by walking, 5.8
Charles Taylor's vehicle, 1.219
Cheerios effect, 2.85, 2.85
Cheerleader horns, 3.21
Cheshire cat effect, 7.20
Chichen Itza, 3.65
Chimneys, falling, 1.69, 1.69
Chinese earthquake, 2.67, 2.67
Chinooks, 4.87
Chladni figures, 2.141
Chris Fogg, airplane window, 2.158
Christmas ball image, 7.28, 7.28
Christmas Story, movie, 4.26
Christmas tree lights, 6.17, 6.17
Churchill, Winston, 2.160
Cicadas, sounds, 3.14
Cigarette smoke, colors, 6.153
Circus acts, 1.20, 1.32, 1.98
Cirque du Soleil, 1.205
City colors, 6.16, 6.17, 6.17
Civil War sounds, 3.19
Clarke, Arthur C., 6.82, 6.82
Cleopatra, 2.165
Click beetle, 1.40
Climbing, rock, 1.60, 1.61
Closet, physics to do in a, 7.15, 7.16
Cloud bows, 6.127
Cloud maps, 6.20
Cloud streets, 2.138
Cloud-contrast bow, 6.10
Clouds
brightness, 6.58
colors, 6.6, 6.49, 6.144
Coal fire and burnt rocks, 5.51
Coanda effect, 2.50, 2.50
Coat warmth, 4.56
Cocktail-party effect, 3.27, 3.27
Coffee, 2.24, 2.87, 2.90, 3.40, 4.42, 4.51, 4.60
Coffee stains, 2.91, 2.91
Coins,
dropped from tall building, 1.112
hidden by water, 6.84
removing, 1.230
wobbling, 1.110
Cold welding, friction 1.57
Collisions
chain, 1.42-1.44
high speed, 1.12
Colloidal suspensions, 5.37
Colored rings in mirrors, 6.110
Colors of meat, 4.45, 6.135
Columnar joint, 1.143
Combustion by sparking, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.15, 5.16
Compound eye, 6.117, 6.117
Concert hall acoustics, 3.61
Conch shell sounds, 3.36
Concorde aircraft length change, 4.53
Concorde aircraft, radiation, 7.46
Condensation
on eyeglasses, 4.66
on mirrors, 2.92, 4.65
Construction crane, 1.206
Contact electrification, 5.8 – 5.14
Contrast illusion, 6.50
Contrails
colors, 6.143
formations, 2.20
Cook, James, 7.27
Cookie dunking, 2.95
Cooking on sidewalk and dashboard, 4.97
Cooking in stove or over flames, 4.45, 4.46
Cooling rates
coffee, 4.60
hot and warm water, 4.12
Coriolis force, 1.141
Cork, removing, 1.213
Cornfield, sounds, 3.75
Coreneal nipples, 6.117, 6.117
Corn-starch solution, 2.58, 1.143
Corona
atmospheric, 6.47
electric, 5.21
frosty glass, 6.48
Corrugated tubes, sounds from, 3.39
Cosmic radiation, 7.46
Coughing, sound, 3.60
Counterfeiting, optics, 6.109, 6.119
Cow magnets, 5.43
Crack networks, 1.143, 1.143
Cracking knuckles, 3.48
Cracks
balloon, 1.212
mud, 4.68
Crane, construction, 1.206
Cricket, bowling in game of, 2.17
Crickets, sounds, 3.12, 3.13
Criss Angel, magic, 1.210, 6.89
Crocodiles
floating, 2.49
vision, 7.18
Cross waves, 2.71
Crown fires, 4.81
Crown flash, 6.27
Crystal skull, 1.208
Curie point, 5.51
Curling, 1.90
Current and people, 5.23
Current crowding, 5.25
Currents, induced, 5.50
Curtain of death, 1.37
Index D-K
Index L-Q
Index R-S
Index T-Z