D
da Vinci, Leonardo, 7.31
Dam break, 2.182
Dambuster, 1.94, 1.94
Dance floor oscillations, 1.124
Danube, caddis flies, 6.126
Darker when wet, 6.52, 6.52
Dark side of the Moon, 6.43, 6.43
Dark-triangle illusion, 6.39
Darwin and twining plants, 1.206
Dashboard cooking, 4.97
Day I Vanished, 1.11
Dead water, 2.35, 2.35
Dead zones in concert halls, 3.61
Dead-cat bomb, 4.31
Death roll, alligator, 1.209
Decapitation, visual, 7.3, 7.3
Deep diving, 2.52, 2.54
Deep hole, rock dropping, 1.255
Deep sound channel, 3.20
Deep-fat frying, 2.96, 4.80
Demolition, building, 1.204
Depressurization, airplane, 2.158
Desert ant navigation, 6.128, 6.128, 7.38
Detached retina, 1.11
Devil's Postpile, 1.143
de Villiers, S., honey, yogurt, 2.159
Dewetting, 2.84
Diabolos, 1.108
Diamagnetic effects, 5.48
Diamonds, 6.94
Didgeridoos, 3.37
Die swell, 2.58
Diffraction of harbor waves, 2.165
Dimples, golf ball, 2.15, 2.15
Dinosaurs,
blood pressure, 2.47
collisions, 1.10
tail flick, 3.59
sounds, 3.9, 3.9
stomach stones (gastroliths), 2.49
swimming sauropods, 2.48
Discus flight, 2.126
Disk, rotating ice, 4.20
Diving, 1.97, 1.134, 2.52, 2.54
Dog, charged, 5.8
Dollar bill, balancing coion, 1.91
Dolphins
bow-riding, 2.70, 2.70
ring vortex, 2.40
Domains, magnetic, 5.49
Dominos, falling, 1.68, 1.68
Donkey, dangling, 1.239
Doppler shifts, 3.23, 3.24
Downforce, 2.1
Downhill skiing and jumping,
crash, 2.7,
jumps before slope change, 1.163,
speed, 2.8
ski jump, 2.7, 2.7
Drafting, 2.2
Drag racing, 1.11, 1.151, 1.151
Dripping, 2.121
Dropping rock in deep hole, 1.255
Drops on hot skillet, 4.6
Drops, floating, 2.74
Drums, sounds, 3.73
Ducks, nonwetting, 2.97
Dunes, sand, 2.111
Dunking birds, 4.62, 4.63
Dust Bowl electrostatics, 5.29
Dust explosion, 5.11, 5.11
Dust devils
formation, 2.39, 2.39
sparking, 5.29, 5.29
E
Eames, Ray and Charles, 6.163
Earthquake
damage, 2.103
liquefaction, 2.103
lights, 5.20
seisches, 2.67
waves, 2.67, 2.67
Earth's magnetic field, 5.39, 5.51
Earthshine, 6.43, 6.43
East Campus Dorm, 4.94
Easter Island statues, 1.62
Echoes, 3.64 - 3.66, 3.65, 3.66
Eclipse solar images, 6.103
Eclipse, sky colors during, 6.11
Edge tones, 3.3
Edge waves, 2.71
Egan, Tomth, Dust Bowl, 5.29
Eggs
bottle trick, 2.176
cooking, 4.44, 4.50
flipping in tequila glass, 2.50
in bottle, 4.99
peeling, 2.176
spinning, 1.107, 2.28
standing, 1.138
Electron emission, 4.101
Electrical discharge, 5.30
Electric fish, 5.28
Electric guitars, 5.44
Electrocution, 5.22 - 5.24
Electroreceptors, platypus, 5.56
Electrostatics fire, 5.9, 5.9
Electron emission, 6.161
Electron waves, 1.208
Electroplaques, 5.28
Elephants, 2.53, 2.53
calls, 3.10
Elevator cabs, 1.53, 1.54
Elves, 5.6
Empire State Building, crash, 1.54
Emulsions, 5.37
Endoscope, 6.87
Entropy and rubber bands, 4.94
Escalator torque, 1.257
Escape, submerged car, 2.189
Esophagoscopy, 6.87
Evanas, R. M. L., honey, yogurt, 2.159
Evaporating wine pattern, 2.193
Evaporation cooling, 4.61, 4.61
Explosion of airborne dust, 5.11, 5.11
Explosion shock waves, 3.54
Extinguisher ride, 1.168
Extreme waves, 2.64
Eyes
colors, 6.122
glare, 6.117, 6.117
reflections from, 7.17
Eye oscillations, 7.8, 7.8
F
Fake videos,
catching a melon with your face, 2.169
cell phones popping popcorn, 4.101
free standing water, 2.181
liquid mountaineering, 2.169
Nike football commercial, 1.78
Falkland Islands battle, 1.136
Falling,
airplane, falls from, 1.49
faster than g, 1.240
cats, surviving long falls, 1.51
LaMonthe dive into shallow water, 1.49
Niagara Falls, going over, 1.195
rock in very deep hole, 1.255
Fata Morgana, 6.30
Feathers
nonwetting, 2.97
optics, 6.115
Feline high-rise syndrome, 1.51, 1.51
Ferns, iridescent, 6.118
Ferris wheel, 1.19
Ferromagnetic materials, 5.51
Feynman, Richard, 1.220
Fillings, dental, 4.53, 5.27
Filling station fire, 5.9, 5.9
Fingernail cracking, 1.144
Fire walking, 4.8, 4.9
Fire, by sparking, 5.9, 5.11
Fireballs, sounds, 3.80
Fire devils, 4.82
Fireplaces, 4.77
Fires
car, 5.9, 5.9
cooking-oil, 4.80
spraying, 4.79
Fire extinguisher ride, 1.168
Firestorms, 4.82
Fire, tunnel, 4.95
Fireworks illusion, 7.49, 7.49
Firnspiegel, 6.54
First date physics, 1.57, 1.75, 1.122, 1.124, 2.51, 2.90,
4.78, 5.17, 5.19, 6.98, 6.122, 7.15, 7.16, 7.50
Fish
Anableps anableps, 7.19
fishermean seeing a fish, 6.84, 6.126
fish seeing fisherman, 6.85
lens, 7.19
Fishing, 1.135, 1.159
Fizzing of bubbles, 3.84
Flag fluttering, 2.117
Flames, candle, 4.78
Flash freezing, 4.16, 4.16
Flashovers
electrical, 5.22
fires, 4.79
Flatulence noise, 3.89, 3.93
Flea circus, 1.200
Flettner’s ship, 2.145
Flies, adhesion, 5.35
Flight 1549, 1.218
Floaters, visual, 7.5
Floating insect, 2.80
Floating, 2.43-2.45, 2.48
Flocking, bird, 2.166
Floor, physics to do on a, 7.50
Flowers, detection by bat, 3.25
Flower petals, color saturation, 6.120
Fluorescent brightener, 6.137
Fluorescent light colors, 6.125
Fluttering flags, 2.117
Fluttering fountains, 2.118
Fly in shock wave, 2.185
Fly ball, catching, 1.21
Flycasting, 1.135
Foam, lack of color, 6.130
Foehn, 4.87
Fog basking by beetles, 4.67
Fog, champagne and soda, 4.24
Fog devils, 2.39
Fog lights, 6.51
Foghorns, 3.21
Food crushing sounds, 3.51
Food wrap, electrical effects, 5.34
Football (American),
field goal kick, controversial, 1.77
spin on long pass, 1.112
wave, stadium, 1.129
Football (soccer),
banana kick, curved flight, 2.14, 2.14
Clarke, Arthur C., referee story, 6.82
goal, bounce back, controversial, 1.78
header and brain damage, 1.241
Roanaldinho fake video, 1.78
throw-in, angle, 1.162
throw-in, longest, 1.228
wave, stadium, 1.129
Forest fires
row vortex, 2.138
spreading, 4.81
Fosbury flop, 1.38
Fountains
fluttering, 2.118
pulsating, 2.119
Fracture, balloon, 1.212
Franklin, Benjamin,
glass harmonica, 3.43
kite myth, 5.2
lightning rod, 5.7
oil and waves, 2.73, 2.73
phosphene displays, 7.7
Freezing, flash, 4.16, 4.16
Free diving, 2.54
Freezing by the sky, 4.13
Freezing carbonated drinks, 4.24
Fresnel focusing by a ball, 6.151, 6.151
Frog, brain cooling by eyes, 4.61
Frogs
magnetically levitating, 5.48
transparent, 6.90
tree-cavity sounds, 3.13
Frost circles, 4.96
Frost flowers, 6.129, 4.111
Frost heave, 4.27 – 4.29
Frostbite, 4.56
Frozen Florida, 4.98
Fruit, musical, 3.91
Frying, 2.96, 4.80
Fuel fire, 5.9, 5.9
Fuller, sword, 1.198
Fulgurites, 5.4
G
Gait, Groucho, 1.259
Galloping wires, 2.129, 3.2
Games, also see Sports and Toys
bola, 1.30
boomerang, 2.9
card throwing, 2.10, 2.10
domino toppling, 1.68, 1.68
horseshoe pitching, 1.83
hula hoop, 1.84
lasso, 1.84
reflection game, 6.156
skateboard, 1.82
sling,1.28
snowball, 4.34
soap bubble, 2.122
stacking blocks, 1.66, 1.66
surf skimmer, 2.130
swing, 1.113
tug-of-war, 1.173
Garden, physics in a,
aphids and liquid marbles, 2.94
aspen tree brilliance, 6.121
bat finding a flower, 3.25
bees and pollination, electrostatics, 5.32
catapulting mushroom spores, 2.99
fish seen through water surface, 6.84
flower petal color saturation, 6.120
greenhouse warmth, 4.84
growing stones in a garden, 4.29
irridesent plant, 6.118
lotus effect, 2.93
oscillating plants, 1.132
seeds that spin, 2.11
structural colors, 6.115
tree, water flow in, 2.136
warm plants, 4.57
water striders, 2.80
watering plants in sunlight, 6.92
Garfield, President, bullet, 5.41
Garlits, Don, 1.11
Gas station fire, 5.9, 5.9
Gastroliths, 2.49
Gaugin, Paul, art, 7.54
Geckos
adhesion, 5.35
vision, 7.33
Gee-haw whimmy diddle, 1.161
Gegenschein, 6.149
Geomagnetically induced current (GIC), 5.47
Geysers, 2.163, 4.51
Ghost light, afterimage, 7.16
Giant’s Causeway, 1.143, 1.143
GIC (geomagnetic induced current), 5.47
Giraffe blood pressure, 2.47
Girls on the Pier, Munch painting, 6.61
Glare, printed page, 6.160
Glass frog, 6.90
Glass harmonica, 3.43
Glass patterns, visual illusions, 7.29
Glass, flow, 2.57
Glass, optics of textured, 6.87
Glaze ice, 4.19
Glitter, sunlight and moonlight, 6.37, 6.39, 6.140
g-LOC, 2.46
Glory, 6.46
Glug-glug, 2.120, 2.120
Glycerin, oil blob motion in, 2.143
Goldfinger, movie, 2.158
Golf ball skipping on water, 1.94
Golf ball sounds, 3.83
Golfing, 1.36, 1.36, 1.75, 2.15, 2.15
Google Earth, 2.165
Grain field waves, 1.132, 6.45
Granular, 2.125, 2.147
Graveyard lights, 6.83
Gravitational slingshot effect, 1.191
Gravity hill, 1.140
Gray network in vision, 7.4
Grease calming waves, 2.73
Green flash, 6.24
Green glass, colors, 6.132
Greenhouse, warmth, 4.84
Gridlock, traffic, 1.2
Groucho walking, running, 1.259
Ground current, 5.2, 5.3
Ground effect, 2.1
Guitar strings, 3.33
Guinness stout, 2.76
Guitar, electric, 5.44, 5.45
Gun sights, 6.161
Gurney fire, 5.16
Gurney flap, 2.1
Gushing of soda, beer, champagne, 2.76
Gyroscopes,
suitcase, 1.105
vehicle, one-wheel, 1.219
Gyrinid beetles colors, 6.115
H
Haboobs, sparking, 5.29
Haidinger’s brush, 7.39
Hair
shadows of, 7.57
wet, 2.95
Halloween physics, 6.157
Halos
around lights, 7.6
atmospheric, 6.34, 6.35
Hammer throw, 1.162
Hammer use, 1.170
Hang time, basketball, 1.35
Hanging a bottle on a wall, 1.221
Hanging bottle caps on your face, 1.57
Hanging spoons, 1.57
Harbor diffraction, 2.165
Harbor paradox, 2.67
Harmonic kiss, 3.4
Haze colors, 6.16
Headbanging, 1.11
Head-on collision, 1.12
Head without a body, 6.62
Hearing aircraft, 3.17, 3.54, 3.85
Hearing loss, noise-induced, 3.30
Hearing underwater, 3.26
Heat islands, 4.85
Heat pipes, 4.64
Heiligenschein, 6.44
Helicopter repair work, 5.22
Helmholtz resonance, 3.41
Hendrix, Jimi, 5.44, 5.45
Hercules beetles, colors, 6.115
Hermit crab vision, 7.42
Herring, optics, 6.115
High jump, 1.38
High-rise syndrome, 1.51, 1.51
High-voltage lines, 5.22, 5.22
Hindenburg fire, 5.15
Hitch, rope, 1.59
Hitchcock, Alfred, 2.166
Hole, airplane window, 2.158
Hole, dropping rock, 1.255
Hole in hand, 7.55
Honeybees, navigation, 7.38
Honey pattern, 2.159
Horizon distance, 6.18
Hornet death by bees, 4.3
Horseshoe throwing, 1.83
Hot-chocolate effect, 3.40
Hot water freezing, 4.12, 4.12
Houdini, Harry, 1.46
Hourglass flows, 2.107
House-hopping, 2.56
Howling of wind, 3.1
HRS, 1.39
Huddling by animals, 4.4, 4.4
Hudson River, landing on, 1.218
Hula-hoops, 1.84
Human cannonball, 1.32
Human dominos, 1.68
Humming, stroboscopic effect, 7.8
Hurricane damage, 2.156
Hydraulic jumps, 2.29, 2.163
Hydraulic oscillator, 2.142
Hydroplaning, 1.8
I
I am half sick of shadows, art, 6.75
Iceberg ship, 2.160
Ice blinks, 6.20, 6.20
Ice crack, sine wave, 4.20
Ice cream, making homemade, 4.41
Ice cubes
figures within, 4.22
formation, 4.20, 4.21
Ice dams, 4.18
Ice disks in rivers, 4.20
Ice formation, 4.10, 4.11, 4.11
Iceland volcano, 5.30
Ice polygons in Arctic, 4.28
Ice-skating, 4.34
Ice spikes, 4.20, 4.20
Ice
brightness, 6.56
camera lens, 6.93
cars sliding on, 1.202
colors, 6.53, 6.57
disk, rotating, 4.20
sounds of, 3.70
Iceberg, green, 6.53
Icehouses, 4.90
Icicles, 4.17 - 4.19, 4.17
Igloos, 4.36
IHTFP, 6.23
Illusion, 7.3, 7.3, 7.8, 7.8, 7.13, 7.13, 7.15, 7.15, 7.49, 7.49
stairway, impossible, 1.258
Impressionism, 7.10
Implosion demolition, 1.204
iPod and lightning, 5.2
Incense swing, 1.114, 1.114
Indiana Jones, 1.208
Infinite corridor, 6.23
Infrared vision, snakes, 4.1, 4.1
Infrasound, 3.10, 3.56, 3.74
Insect eyes, protuberances on, 6.117, 6.117
Insect plumes, 4.93
Insects on water, 2.80, 6.89
Internal waves, 2.35
Inverted glass, 2.120, 2.120
Inverted pendulums, 1.116
Invisible man, 6.90
Invisibility in water, 6.89, 6.89
Iridescent colors, biological, 6.115
Iridescent plants, 6.118
Italian Job, movie, 1.216
J
Jack O'Lanterns, optics, 6.157
Jay, Ricky, 2.10
Javelin flight, 2.127
Joints, geological, 1.143
Jordon, Michael, 1.33
Judas Priest, 1.11
Judo, 1.55, 1.111, 1.204
Juggling, 1.25
Julius Caesar, 2.165
Jumping beans, 1.39
K
Kaleidoscopes, 6.65
Karate, 1.45, 1.45
Katrina, hurricane, 2.156
Kayak roll, 1.89
Kaye effect (leaping liquid streams), 2.60, 2.60
Kelvar body armor, 1.130, 1.130
Kennedy, President John F., 1.146, 1.146
Ketchup,
cartesian diver, 2.172
non-newtonian fluid, 2.58
Kiln, and Earth's magnetic field, 5.39
King crab Limulus vision, 7.42
Kites, 2.6
Knitting needles, 5.55
Knots, 1.59, 1.223
Knight Rider stunt, 1.226
Knuckle cracking, 3.48
Korotkoff sounds, 3.49
Krakatoa volcanic eruption
sky colors, 6.8, 6.9
sound spread, 3.74
Kursk submarine, 1.126
Index A-C
Index L-Q
Index R-S
Index T-Z