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Saccade (vision jump), baseball, 7.9
Sailboat, 2.161
Saint Paul's Cathedral whispering gallery, 3.63
Saint-Sulpice church, meridian line, optics, 6.23
Salt fingers, 2.135
Salt fountains, 2.135
Salt oscillators, 2.134
Saltation (jumping of sand grains in wind, sand ripple formation), 2.110
Salting in ice cream making, 4.41
Salting sidewalks and roads, 4.40
Sambuca, 6.113
Samurai horo, cloth versus arrows, 1.130
Sand
booming and squeaking, 3.69, 3.69
cohesion, 2.86
darkness of wet sand, 6.52
drinking glass pushed into sand, 2.175
dunes, formation and migration, 2.111
Langmuir circulation, 2.111
pressure under sand pile (stress dip), 2.140, 2.140
ripples, 2.110
sandpiles, 2.106
self-organizing flow, 2.106
sparking, 5.29
Sand-bar reflections, 2.132
Sandcastles, 2.86
Sandwich bag inflation, 2.174
Sapphire, star, illusion 6.97, 6.97
Satellite mirror shinning on ground, 6.81, 6.82
Satellites
air drag speeds up satellite, 1.188
intelligence satellites, 1.187
Jack and the beanstalk to space, 1.137
Sauce béarnaise, 5.37
Sauropod dinosaur, living in water because of size, 2.48
Sausage-shadow effect, 6.99
Scallop eye, mirror instead of lens, 7.17
Scanning, laser beams into audience at rock concerts, 6.164
Scanning electron microscope, 1.208
Scarabeid beetles, colors due to interference, 6.115
Scarps, beach, 2.86
Scary physics
graveyard lights, 6.83
howling wind, 3.1
pendulum in the pit, Edgar Allen, how realistic, 1.115
roller coaster, scariest car, 1.19, 1.19
Scattering, optical
airplane window bright streak, 6.105
beetle colors, 6.95
blue Moon, 6.50
blue skin, 6.123
Christmas light, 6.17
contrail colors, 6.143
dark when wet
hair, 6.52
sand, 6.52
earthshine, 6.43, 6.43
envelope magic trick, 6.86
eye colors, 6.90
finely grooved surfaces, 6.108
gegenschein, 6.149
ice blink, 6.20
milk in bright sunlight (speckle), 6.124
milk in water, 6.111
mirror, misty or dusty, colored rings, 6.110
nacreous clouds (mother-of-pearl clouds), 6.144
opal, colors due to diffraction, 6.95
optically variable devices, credit card displays, 6.109
rays of Buddha, 6.15
red dawn, Australian, 6.5
shower door optics, 6.88
smoke color
campfire, 6.112
cigarette, 6.153
speckle (grainy pattern), 6.124
spider webs, 6.105
transparent
frogs, 6.90
man, 6.90, 6.90
twilight purple light, 6.145
window scratches, 6.105
windshield light streaks, 6.106, 6.106
zodiacal light, 6.149
Scoresby, William, ice lens to start a fire, 6.93
Scorpion, sand, remote detection of beetles by sand waves, 1.127, 1.127
Scratches, optics, 6.105
Screen, optics, 6.104
Sculpture, acoustic, 3.86
Searchlight beams
beam's abrupt end, 6.22
most powerful, design, 6.80
rainbow in beam, 6.3
Secondary flow
olive in swirling martini, 2.25
river meandering, 2.26
tea leaves collecting at center of cup, 2.25
Seed, spinning while falling, 2.11, 2.11
Seiches, 2.67, 2.67
Self-cleaning effect, lotus effect, super hydrophobic, 2.93
Self-organizing pattern, 2.159
Self-righting
bottle, 1.106
turtle, 1.274
SEM (scanning electron microscope), examination crystal skull, 1.208
Sempere, Eusebio, acoustic sculpture, 3.86
Seurat, Georges, pointillism art, Sunday Afternoon, 7.11
Shadow
acoustic, 3.19
airplane wing, dark bands, 6.100, 6.100
bands, atmospheric, 6.33
bright borders around a shadow, 6.99
caustics, 6.99
colors of, 6.42, 7.40
diffraction, 6.151, 6.151
hiding a shadow, 7.56
in water, 6.99
bright borders
caustics
sausage-shadow effect
Mach bands, 7.25
mountain shadows, always triangular, 6.36
of hairs, strange change during motion, 7.57
on sky (rays of Buddha, 6.15
on snow, 6.42
on water (Walt Whitman), 6.41
pinspeck camera, 6.102
Poisson spot, 6.151, 6.151
Shafts across sky, 6.15
Shaking soda or beer, 2.76
Shampoo stream bounce, 2.60, 2.60
Shandy, beer and soft drink, bubble production depends on pouring, 2.76
Shape of sky, perceived, 7.2
Shaver clippings in water, effect of soap, 2.150
Shaving with twin blades, 1.193
Shear-thickening fluids, 2.58
Shear-thinning fluids, 2.58
Sheep, big-horn
head-to-head collisions, 1.10
rock climbing, 1.61
Shell sounds, conch, 3.36
Shimmy, optical, 6.32
Ship
anti-roll device, 1.184
bergship (iceberg aircraft carrier), 2.160
canal water level effect, 2.30, 2.30
collision, 1.263
dead water (ship cannot escape), 2.35, 2.35
drawn together, 2.128
Flettner's ship, 2.145
odd behavior in certain straits, 2.146
sailboats, 2.161
sloshing of onboard swimming pool, 2.199
wakes, 2.68
Shock front, optics, 6.100, 6.100, 6.101
Shock waves
aircraft, 3.54
Apatosaurus dinosaur's tail, 3.59
brontides, mysterious booms from sky, 3.57
bullet, 3.54
bull whip, 3.59
land speed record, 1.87
rockets, World War II, V2, blitz, 3.54
rock file, 3.58
sneeze and cough, 3.60
space shuttle Columbia, Los Angeles seismic wave, 3.54
thunder, 3.56
train, high speed through tunnel, 3.55
traffic flow, 1.3
water (hydraulic jump), 2.29
Yeager, Chuck, sonic boom, 3.54
Shooting bullet into block, 1.265
Shooting down your own airplane, 2.155
Shorebirds, prey harvesting, 2.83
Shotgun, rainbows, 6.1
Shot put, 1.162, 1.162
Shower curtain flutter, 2.21
video of me, The Daily Planet show
Shower singing, 3.67
Shower-door optics, 6.88, 6.90
Shrimp sounds, 1.40, 3.50, 3.50
Shrimpoluminescence, 3.50
Side flash, lightning, 5.2
Sidewalk, cooking on hot sidewalk, 4.97
Side-view mirrors, vehicles, blind spots, 6.74, 6.74
Siege machines (medieval), 1.31
Signac, Paul, depicting Mach bands when painting shadow edges, 7.25
Silos
granular flows, 2.107
honking and quaking, 2.107, 3.38
Simoson, A. J., 1.141
Singing
resonance of nose, throat, and mouth, 3.4
soprano, 3.4
throat singing (overtone singing), 3.6
shower singing, 3.67
wine glass shattering, 3.44, 3.44
Sink, colors in kitchen in sink water flow, 6.125
Sinkholes and frost circles, 4.96
Siphon, 2.41
chain, 2.41
Sirens, production of sound, 3.3
Skateboard, 1.82
Skater, ice, 1.95
Skid marks, vehicle, 1.8, 1.9
Skiing
accident, 2.7
avalanche balloon, 2.109
friction, 4.33
glasses, yellow, 6.56
glowing due to charging, 5.14
jumping, 1.163, 2.7, 2.7
racing, 2.7, 2.7, 2.8
speed, 2.8
turns, 1.101
Skin color change with cold air, 6.123
Skin softness, optics, 6.133
Skipping rocks and golf balls over water, 1.94, 1.94
Skunk cabbage heat production, snow melting, 4.57
Sky
Bishop's ring (volcano-induced solar halo), 6.9
bright and dark shafts, 6.15
bright instead of dark, 6.4
colors
blue daytime sky, 6.5
blue enhancement at sunset, 6.13
dark patch and rosy border at sunset, 6.14
green sky (green thunderstorms), 6.12
nighttime sky color, 6.5
overcast sky color, 6.19
red sunsets and sunrises, 6.5
solar eclipse color, 6.11
storm prediction, 6.7
volcanic coloring, 6.8
horizon
brightness, 6.21
distance to, 6.18
white horizon, 6.5
large scale luminous areas, 6.149
line across distant rain (rain-ice transition), 6.147
maps in the sky, 6.20
polarization
ant navigation, 6.128, 6.128, 7.38
honeybee navigation, 6.128
Viking navigation, 6.127
way to colorful detect sky polarization 6.127
shape, perceived, 7.2
Skyhook, beanstalk to space, 1.137
Sky-ice, maps in the sky (ice-blink), 6.20, 6.20
Skywalk collapse, 1.47
Slam freezing, 4.24
Sliding
cars, 1.8, 1.9
fingers beneath meter stick, 1.172, 1.172
Sling (weapon), 1.28
Slingshot,
human slingshot, 1.276
window-frame size, MIT, 4.94
Slinky, 1.65, 1.65, 1.249
Sloshing
bathtub, 2.67, 2.67
beer, foam head damping oscillations, 2.199
canoe, sloshing to empty, 2.199
coffee cup, 2.67
cruise ship onboard swimming pool, 2.199
pond, 2.67, 2.67
seiches, 2.67, 2.67
tanker car, 2.67
walking, 2.67, 2.199
Smith, Rick, Jr., card throwing, 2.10
Smoke front, tunnel fire, 4.95
Smoke
cigarette smoke color shift, 6.153
rings, 2.40
plume shapes and behaviors, 4.75
signals, 4.76
Snake blood pressure, 2.47
Snake,
gliding, 2.12
infrared detection by, 4.1
slithering, 1.233
wall climbing by, 1.243
Snap, crackle, and pop of cereal, 3.53, 3.53
Snapping shrimp sounds, 3.50, 3.50
Sneezing, sound, 3.60
Snoring, 3.7
Snorkeling
dangers, 2.53, 2.53
elephants, 2.53, 2.53
Snow
avalanches, 2.114, 4.38
blindness, 6.55
bone goggles, 6.56
brightness, 6.21
colors, 6.53, 6.54
fences, 2.113
firsnspiegel (sparkles), 6.54
hearing the snow, 3.71
melted by skunk cabbage plant, 4.57
melt patterns, 4.39
rollers, 4.37, 4.37
sheet, 4.18
ski glasses, yellow, 6.56
sounds of walking on snow, 3.72
sparking, 5.29
waves, 1.128
whiteout, 6.55
Snowball making, 4.34
Snowblindness, 6.55
Snowflake formation and symmetries, 4.32
Snowrollers, 4.37, 4.37
Soap bubbles and films
black film, 6.114
bubble formation, 2.77
colors, 6.114
glycerin, role in stabilizing, 2.77
inflation, 4.70
Ostwald ripening, 4.70
Plateau border, 2.77
shapes, 2.122
two connecting bubbles, 4.70
Soap effect on surface tension (shaver cuttings on water), 2.150, 2.150
Soccer, see Football
Soda
freezing, 4.24
shaking, 2.76, 2.76
sounds, 3.84
Solar flare
astronaut visual effects, 7.46
sun's appearance, 4.106
Solar images, 6.103
Solar towers, 4.83
Solitary waves (solitons), 2.31
Solstice, light beam penetrating Newgrange, 6.23, 6.23
Solutal instability, 2.89
Sonic booms
aircraft, 3.54, 3.54
Apatosaurus dinosaur tail whip, 3.59
brontide, mysterious sounds from the sky, 3.57
bullet, 3.54
bullwhip, 3.59
land-speed record, 1.87
rocket launch, 3.54
sneeze and cough, 3.59
space shuttle Challenger, Los Angeles, seismic wave, 3.54
thunder, 3.56
train at high speed through tunnel, 3.55
V2 rockets, World War II blitz, 3.54
volcano eruption, 3.54
Yeager, Chuck (breaking sound barrier), 3.54
Soprano singing, 3.4
Sound emitted by ears, 3.28
Sound speed
determining depth of deep hole, 1.255
determining depth of sunken submarine after explosion, 1.126
hot chocolate effect, 3.40
long distance hopping, 3.18
Soup reversal after stirring, 2.59
Space
astronaut
maneuvering, 1.97
vacuum exposure, 4.5, 4.5
visual sensations from cosmic rays, 7.46
air drag speeds up satellite, 1.188
Earth to Venus story, 1.169
electrostatics, 5.55
gegenschein, 6.149
gravitational slingshot, 1.191
intelligence satellite orbits, 1.187
Martian rover, tumbleweed design, 2.186
mirror in orbit, to shine on ground, 6.82
Moon trip figure eight orbit, 1.189
rocket stages, 1.168
walking, 4.5, 4.5
zodiacal light (interplanetary dust), 6.149
Spaghetti breaking, 1.220
Spaghetti effect (slurping and slinging), 1.122, 1.122
video of me, The Daily Planet show
Sparking
adhesive tape, 5.17, 5.17
aerosol cans, 5.12
airplane, 5.29
bird poop and flashover on power lines, 2.98
car and fueling, 5.9, 5.9
car-to-car, 5.10
Dust Bowl, 5.29
gurney fire,, hospital, 5.16, 5.16
haboob, dust storm, 5.29
Hindenburg disaster, 5.15
Martian dust devils, 5.29
playground slide, 5.8, 5.8
powder, dust, snow, 5.29
skiing, 5.14
St. Elmo's fire, 5.21, 5.21, 5.29
surgery, 5.8, 5.8
sweater, 5.8, 5.8
tornado, 2.37, 5.29
volcano, 5.30, 5.30
Speaking, 3.4, 3.5
Speckle patterns, optical, 6.124
Sphere of Death, motorcycle stunt, 1.211
Spiders
beading on web threads, fluid instability, 2.81
web oscillations and location of prey, 1.123
Spin test, 1.88
Spiny lobsters, sounds, 3.12
Spitballs, 1.244
Splashing
granular, 2.147
liquid, 2.75
sounds
murmuring brook, 3.45
rain noise, 3.45
wettability of object hitting water, 3.87
Spoons, hanging on your face, 1.57, 1.57
video of me, Cleveland State University
video of me, The Tonight Show
Sports
aikido, 1.55, 1.111
archery, 1.131
baseball,
aerodynamics, 2.16
ball-bat collision, 1.23
catching ball dropped from high point, 1.22
fly ball catching, 1.21
humidifying, 1.23
seeing the ball in flight from the pitcher, 7.9
basketball,
free throw, 1.33, 1.33
hang time, 1.35
shots, 1.33, 1.33, 1.34
spin effect, 1.228
billiard shots, 1.74
bobsled, 2.109
bowling, 1.73
boxing, 1.46, 1.46
bull riding, 1.92, 1.92
camel jumping, 1.38
cheerleader horn, 3.21
cricket, aerodynamics and bowling, 2.17
curling,1.90
deadlift, 1.41, 1.41
discus flight, 2.126
diving, 1.97, 1.134
field hockey, 1.78
fishing, pulling in a fish, 1.159
flycasting, 1.135
football (American)
cheerleader horn, diffraction of sound waves, 3.21
field goal kick, controversial, 1.77
Marshawn Lynch running through defenders, 1.275
spin on long pass, 1.112
wave, stadium, 1.129
football (rest of the world)
banana kick, curved flight, 2.14, 2.14
Clarke, Arthur C., referee death by mirrors, 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
Fosbury flop, 1.38, 1.38
golf
aerodynamics of ball, 2.15, 2.15
dimples increases flight, 2.15, 2.15
general, 1.36
"golfer's dilemma" (ball hopping out of cup), 1.36, 1.36
putt-putt (miniature) golf, 1.75
skipping ball over water, 1.94
sound in putting, 3.83
hammer throw, 1.62
high jump, 1.38
horseshoe throwing, 1.83
ice skating, 4.34
javelin, 2.127
judo, 1.55, 1.111
video of me, Newton's Apple show
video, calculations
karate, 1.45, 1.45
video, calculations
kayak roll, 1.89
long jump, 1.38, 1.38
pole vault, 1.26
pool shots, 1.74
race car, 2.1
racquetball
zing echo, 3.77
Z shot, 1.77
rock climbing, 1.243, 1.60
roller derby, 1.231
video, calculations
rugby, 1.24
sail boats, 2.161
shot put, 1.162
skateboard, 1.82
skiing
accident, 2.7
avalanche balloon, 2.109, 2.109
downhill race, 1.163
friction, 4.33
glasses, yellow, 6.56
glowing due to charging, 5.14
jump, 2.7, 2.7, 2.8
speed, 2.8
turning, 1.101
snorkeling, 2.53
shot put, 1.162, 1.162
springboard diving, 1.97, 1.134
sprint tracks, 1.16
surfing, 2.69, 2.69
swords, 1.198
tae-kwon-do punch, 1.45, 1.45
video, calculatons
tennis, 1.79, 2.13
weight lifting, 1.41, 1.41
wet towel popping in the locker room, 3.59
wrestling, 1.111
Spray sheath, waterspouts, 2.38
Spring equinox and eggs, 1.138, 1.138
Spring novelty, 1.148
Springboard diving, 1.97, 1.134
Sprint tracks, 1.16
Sprites, 5.6, 5.6
video, calculations
Squeaking sand, 3.69, 3.69
Squid, bacteria illuminating its shadow, 6.90
Squirrels, and snakes, 4.1
St. Elmo’s fire, 5.4, 5.29, 5.21
Stacking
blocks, 1.66, 1.66
coins, 1.239
dominos, 1.68
Lego blocks, 1.66
rods, circus, 1.238
stones and bowling balls, 1.201
Stack plumes, 4.75
Stadium waves, moving through stadium audience, 1.129
Stairs, echoes from, 3.65
Stairway, impossible, 1.258
Stalactites, 2.84
Standing stability
standing and walking in strong wind, 1.227
standing on moving vehicle (car and train surfing), 1.199
Stapp, John, effect of large accelerations, 1.11, 1.11
Star sapphire illusion, 6.97
Star spikes, perceived, 7.6
Stargazer’s eye sweep, 7.36
Stars
radial lines (perceived spikes), 7.6
seen in shafts, 7.35
twinkling, 6.32
van Gogh, Starry Night, rings around, 7.6
Stealth aircraft, 6.117
Steam devils, vortexes, 2.39
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, cause of whiteouts, 6.55
Stepped leader, lightning, 5.1
Stethoscopes, 3.32
Stick-and-slip effects
finger nails on chalkboard, 3.42
video, sound production
fingers sliding beneath meter stick, 1.172, 1.172
hinge squeaking, 3.42
violin bowing, 3.34
wineglass, rubbing rim, 3.43, 3.43
Stirling flocks, 2.166
Stonehenge construction, 1.63
Stones
migration
across desert, 1.58
up through ground, freeze-thaw cycle, 4.29
skipping across water, 1.94, 1.94
stacking and balancing, 1.201
Storage tank collapse, crushed during cooling, 4.54, 4.54
St. Paul's Cathedral whispering gallery, 3.63
Stratosphere, refraction of sound, 3.18
Straw lifting a glass, 1.234
Strait of Gibraltar flow, 2.146
Strait of Messina flow, 2.146
Strait of Sicily flow, 2.146
Stream deflection, electrical, 5.57
Street and road
bumps, 1.185, 1.185
corrugated road, 1.185, 1.185
illumination by streetlights, 6.78
music from road noise, 3.86
streetlight turn-on illusion, 7.24
wet road darkness, 6.52
Stress dip below sandpile, 2.140, 2.140
Stroboscope effect with humming, 7.8
Stroboscope induced visual patterns, 7.7
Structural colors, biological, 6.95, 6.115, 6.158
Stunts
bed of nails, lying on, 1.56, 1.56
video of me, The Tonight Show
boiling water ordeal, 4.88
Cannonball Richards, cannonball shot into stomach, 1.46
car and train surfing, 1.199
car jumps, 1.81
cards as weapons, 2.10
catching a melon with your face (fake video), 2.169
catching arrows, 7.9
chair balancing on a cliff, 1.239
climbing stairs on your head, 1.254
corn starch, walking across a slurry of, 2.58
domino amplifier, 1.68, 1.68
driving upside down, 2.1, 2.1
eggs, standing on end, 1.138, 1.138
escalator torques, 1.257
falls over Niagara Falls, 1.195
flying in a lawn chair, 2.56, 2.56
golf ball skipping over water, 1.94
hanging a bottle on the wall, 1.221
hanging spoons and bottle caps on your face, 1.57, 1.57
high dive into shallow water, 1.49
house hopping with helium balloons, 2.56, 2.56
hula-hoop with heavy truck tire, 1.84
human slingshot, 1.276
juggling hammers, 1.25
jumping out of a beach (fake video), 1.235
Knight Rider, car into truck, 1.226
lead, fingers in molten lead, 4.6, 4.6
video of me, Cleveland State University
video of me, The Tonight Show
Leidenfrost effects (molten lead and liquid nitrogen), 4.6, 4.6
liquid mountaineering (fake video), 2.169
liquid nitrogen, 4.6, 4.6
loop-the-loop with cars, bikes, skateboards, and running, 1.270
motorcycle Ball of Death, 1.211
motorcycle jump, Robbie Maddison's upward, 1.81
motorcycle long jump, 1.81
pulling train with teeth, 1.165, 1.165
quicksand, 2.102, 2.102
video of me, Newton's Apple show
stacking bowling balls, 1.201
sucking liquid up very long straws, 2.41
vortex cannon, large, 2.40
walking on hot coals, 4.8, 4.9
yo-yos, unusual and gigantic, 1.85
Styrofoam cups, moving with electrostatics, 5.8
Submarines
bergy seltzer noise, 3.70
escape from, 2.54
listening to, 3.20
remote detection of submarine explosion and sinking, 1.126
video of calculations, Kursk explosion
Submerged car, escape from, 2.189
Suction
from an airplane, through window, 2.158
up a straw, record, 2.41
Sugar, electrically charging, 5.53
Sugar dust explosion, 5.11
Suitcase with flywheel, gyroscopic prank, 1.105
Sullenberger, Captain, crash landing commercial jet on Hudson River, 1.218
Sun
See also Sunset (below)
beams, 6.15
Bishop's ring (volcanic induced ring), 6.9
corona (colored bands), 6.47
distortions, 6.25
halos, 6.34, 6.35
pillar, 6.35
shadow bands, 6.33
sun dogs, 6.34
Sunglasses
polarizing
printed page glare, 6.160
sky light, 6.126
windshield spots, 6.129
UV light transmission, 7.41
snow blindness (bone, wood, modern sunglasses, 6.55
yellow ski glasses, 6.56
Sunset
abrupt darkness, 6.142
colors, 6.5
dark patch, 6.14
green flash, 6.24
overhead blue enhancement, 6.13
rosy border, 6.14
sun distortions, 6.25
twilight purple light, 6.145
volcano coloring the sky, 6.8
Super Ball tricks, 1.43, 1.76
Supercooling water
plumbing pipe burst, 4.25
procedure, 4.10
Superheating water in microwave oven, 4.48
Superhydrophobic, 3.77
Superman x-ray vision, 7.48
Supersonic
aircraft, 3.54, 3.54
bullet, 3.54
bullwhip, 3.59
explosion, 3.54
land-speed record, 1.87
rocket launch, 3.54
space shuttle Columbia, Los Angeles, seismic wave, 3.54
V2 rockets, World War II blitz, 3.54
volcano eruption, 3.54
Yeager, Chuck, 3.54
Surface tension
antibubbles, 2.124
aphids and liquid marbles, 2.94
beading on saliva threads and spider threads, 2.81
beer foams, 2.77
beer spots on bottle caps, 2.190
bird dropping (poop) on car windshield, 2.98
Boyles's perpetual motion device, 2.195
breath figures on mirror, 2.92
bubbles in beer, soda, and champagne, 2.76, 2.76
bubble bursting, 2.78
camphor boats, 2.150
catapulting mushroom spores, 2.99
Cheerios effect (attraction of floating cereal grains), 2.85, 2.85
video, homemade
collecting pepper grains and shaver cuttings, 2.150, 2.150
condensation on eyeglasses, 4.66
dripping, 2.121
drops floating on water, 2.74, 2.74
drops from an empty bottle, pub trick, 2.167
ducks stay dry, 2.97
evaporating wine, 2.193
foams, 2.77
foggy mirrors, 4.65
free-standing water (fake video), 2.181
gushing in shaken beer or soda, 2.76, 2.76
instability, 2.89
inverted can of Red Bull, 2.120
inverted glass of water, 2.120, 2.120
liquid mountaineering (fake video), 2.169
liquid origami, 2.170
liquid ribboning, 2.62
lotus effect, 2.93
mushroom catapult, 2.99
oil blobs in water, 2.178
paint brushes, 2.95
paper straw stretch and crawl, pub trick, 2.171
parchment paper effect, 2.170
patterns in draining honey, yogert, 2.159
pinned surface films, 2.84
pins in water glass, 2.192
poured art, Holton Rower, 2.188
sandcastles, 2.86
scarps, beach, 2.86
self-cleaning surface, 2.93
shorebirds harvesting prey, 2.83
soap bubble shapes, 2.122
spider webs, 2.81
teapot effect (water stream doubling back under spout), 2.51
tears of strong wine, 2.88
thin stream meandering on tilted surface, 2.149
Tia Maria wormy action, 2.89, 2.89
toothpick design, pub trick, 2.173
water striders, 2.80, 2.85, 2.85, 2.169, 6.89
water bells, sheets, chains, 2.101
waves on falling water stream, 2.100
wet hair, 2.51
whiskey glass pub trick, 2.157
wine evaporation pattern, 2.193
yogurt drainage pattern, 2.159
Surface waves, whispering galleries, 3.63
Surf skimmers, 2.130
Surfing
car and train, 1.199
ocean waves, 2.69, 2.69
Surge
controlled dam breach, 2.182
exploding geyser from rain runoff shaft, 2.163
Surgery, electrical effects
bacteria, electrically attacted, 5.31, 5.31
current crowding, 5.25
electrosurgery, 5.25
fires and explosions, 5.26
gurney fire, 5.16, 5.16
sparking into patient, 5.8, 5.8
Sway, building, 1.133, 1.133
Swimming and swimming pool
ascent after diving, 2.52
dead water, 2.35
hearing underwater, 3.26
sauropods, 2.48
snorkeling
dangers, 2.53, 2.53
elephants, 2.53, 2.53
people, 2.53, 2.53
shadows with bright borders, 6.99
syrup, swimming in, 2.19
underwater vision, 7.18
Swings
incense swing, 1.114, 1.114
pendulum in the pit, 1.115
pumping, 1.113
Sword fight, 1.198
Sword swallowing, 6.87
Syracuse, Archimedes defense with mirrors, 6.81