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The Flying Circus of Physics,
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C Cable aerodynamics, wind-induced oscillations, 2.129
Cabin pressure, loss of due to window puncture, 2.158
Caddis flies, attracted by polarized light from windows, 6.126
Caesar, Julius, escape from Egyptian army, 2.165
Café wall illusion, 2.58
Cain, Michael, The Italian Job move, bus balanced on cliff edge, 1.216
Cakes, high-altitude recipes for making, 4.71
Camels
jumping over conest, 1.38
thrown in collisions with vehicles, 1.215
Camera
pinhole, 6.102
pinspeck (opposite of pinhole), 6.102
Campbell, Glenn, Wichita Lineman, wind-induced musical oscillations telephone lines, 3.2
Campfire smoke, color depends on viewing angle, 6.112
Camphor boats, 2.150
Can, tilted and falling produces rotation, 1.110
Canal effect, water-line dip as boat moves along canal, 2.30, 2.30
Candle flame, 4.78
blue and yellow emissions, 4.78
glow around, diffraction, 7.6
relighting after extinguishing, pub trick, 4.78
Canoe emptying by sloshing, 2.199
Cannonball Richards, stopping cannonball with stomach, 1.46
Capacitor, hospital gurney, fire, 5.16, 5.16
Car
antenna oscillations, 1.183
balance of 3 wheeled car, 1.239
balloon motion during turning, 2.131
video of me, The Daily Planet show
bird droppings (poop) and surface tension, 2.98
blind spots, vehicle mirrors, 6.74, 6.74
braking, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9
bus clearance in a turn, 1.153
camel, collisions with, 1.215, 1.215
Chaparal 2J, early racecar with ground effect, 2.1
children dying in closed cars, 4.84
collisions,
head-on, 1.12, 1.12
icy roads, 1.202
rear-end, 1.14
shops and walls, 1.12
color-shifting paint, 6.109
corrugated road, 1.185, 1.185
crushed, 1.229
dashboard cooking, 4.97
downforce (aerodynamics), 2.1, 2.1
drafting, 2.2
dragster starts, 1.151
dragster tire distortion, 1.151
electrostatics, 5.9
escape from submerged vehicle, 2.189
fire at fuel stop, 5.9, 5.9
fog lights, yellow versus normal, 6.51
ground effect (aerodynamics), 2.1, 2.1
Gurney flap (aerodynamics), 2.1, 2.1
grid lock, 1.2
heating in closed, 4.84, 4.84
ice and snow sliding, 1.202
ice, rescue from, 1.261
illusion of anamorphic traffic sign, 6.77
Johnson, Junior, 2.2
jumps, 1.81
Knight Rider stunt (car into truck), 1.202
land speed record, 1.87
lightning strike to, 5.3, 5.3
mirror blind spots, 6.74, 6.74
moose, collision with, 1.215, 1.215
negative lift (negative lift), 2.1, 2.1
obstacle in road, turn or stop, 1.152
oil stain pattern on road, 2.151
one-wheel vehicle gyroscope stabilized, 1.219
pedestrian throw in collisions, 1.215
phantom accidents, lingering traffic complications after accidents, 1.3
polarized light reveals stress patterns in rear window, 6.129
rain on rear window, 1.1
Reliant Robin, 3 wheel car, highly unstable, 1.239
remote opener, using your head as, 5.64
removing car from ice covered lake, Russian technique, 1.261
road noise, musical, 3.88
shock wave in traffic along highway, 1.87
sickness and infrasound in a car ride, 3.74
skidding and sliding, 1.7-1.9, 1.202
skid marks, 1.8, 1.9
slingshot pass in racing, 2.2
slipstreaming, 2.2
sound barrier, exceeding, 1.87
sparking at fuel stop, 5.9, 5.9
spin out, 1.6, 1.6
starting on a slippery road, 1.175
stopping on ice, 1.202
submerged, escape from underwater, 2.189
supersonic
danger of wheel explosion, 1.87
shock wave and sonic boom, 6.28
surfing, riding on top of car, 1.199
Thrust SSC
land speed record, 1.87
shock wave and sonic boom, 6.28
tire
balancing, 1.176
explosions, 4.114
squealing, 3.42
traffic platoons, 1.2
traffic shock waves, 1.3
trailing distance, minimum safe, 1.4
turns, race-car, 1.15
upside-down car as in Men in Black, 2.1
washboard roads, 1.185, 1.185
wet road darkness, 6.52
wheel's blurry appearance when rotating, 1.247
wheel explosion, danger of, at high speed, 1.87
whiplash injury in rear-end collision, 1.14
windshield
driver thrown through 1.253
light streaks, 6.106, 6.106
multiple reflections, 6.106
potato rubbing as replacement for wiper, 2.98
reflection of dashboard obscuring front view, 6.63
stress pattern made visible with polarized light, 6.129
yellow fog lights, 6.51
yellow traffic light, running through, 1.5
Carbon dioxide
freezing with, 4.31
Lake Nyos, lethal eruption, 2.55
Carbonated drinks, sudden freezing, 4.24, 4.24
Cardboard, white becoming dark, 6.69
Cards
falling, 2.11, 2.11
throwing (as weapons), 2.10, 2.10
Carnival
bottle swing game, 1.177
Cannon Ball Richards, stopping cannonball with stomach, 1.46
flea circus, 1.200, 1.200
human cannonball, 1.32
juggling, 1.25
pouring tea on rotating platform, Coriolis force, 1.242
sword swallowing, 6.87
Carroll, Lewis, falling into deep hole like Alice in Wonderland, 1.141
Carrying a load
on head, 1.117
on oscillating poles, 1.118
Cartesian diver with ketchup pack, pub trick, 2.172
Cartoon, MIT, 4.99
Cat
charged, electrostatics, 5.8
chimney climb, 1.60
dead-cat bomb (prank), 4.31
eye reflections in the dark, 7.17
falling
long fall, 1.51, 1.51
twisting, 1.97, 1.97
Catapult
mushroom launch, 2.99
siege machine, 1.31
Cataract, Monet and impressionism, 7.10
Catastrophe theory, optical, focused light patterns, 6.98
Caterpillars, blue color due to scattering by surface filaments, 6.115
Cathedral, see Church below
Caulfield, Patrick, art, 7.54
Caustics, optical, focused light patterns, 6.98
Cave
acoustics, 3.66, 3.66
air flow, 4.92
stalactite formation, 2.84
Cavitation
blood pressure measurement sounds, 3.49
knuckle cracking, 3.48
plumbing rumbling, 3.47
shrimp killing prey with cavitation sound waves, 3.50
Cell phone
fire at fuel station, 5.9, 5.9
heating and popping popcorn (fake video), 4.101
inside guitar recording string vibrations in weird way, 3.94
lightning danger, 5.2
Celt stones, stones that will rotate in only one direction, 1.109
Cereal,
Cheerios effect, grains attracted by surface tension, 2.85, 2.85
video, demonstration
magnetic effects of iron-fortified cereal, 5.43, 5.43
sounds when eaten, 3.53, 3.53
Chain collision
car-car collisions, 1.202
baseball on top of basketball, 1.43, 1.44
pendulum-pendulum collisions, 1.42
Chain siphon, chain siphoned from container, 2.41
Chair balancing on cliff edge, 1.239
Chair jerking prank, 1.166
Chakraborty, S., falling through hole through Earth's center, 1.141
Chalkboard, fingers scrapping, 3.42
Champagne
ascending from a tunnel after drinking, 4.72
bubbles
formation and motion, 2.76
bursting patterns, 2.77
paths, 2.123
cork projectile motion, 1.225
raisin motion, pub trick, 2.177
sounds, 3.84
Charging, electric, 5.8-5.15
Charged by walking, 5.8
Charles Taylor's gyroscope vehicle, 1.219
Cheerios effect, surface tension clustering, 2.85, 2.85
video, demonstration
Cheerleader horns, acoustic diffraction, 3.21
Cheshire cat effect, 7.20
Chichen Itza, Mayan pyramid, musical echo from steps, 3.65
Chimney climb by rock climbers and cats, 1.60, 1.60
Chimney, falling, 1.69, 1.69
Chimney plumes, 4.75
Chinese earthquake, distant sloshing of pond, 2.67, 2.67
Chinese totems, 1.239
Chinooks (wind warmed by increased air pressure), 4.87
Children dying in closed cars, 4.84
Chladni figures of sand on vibrating plate, 2.141, 2.141
Chris Fogg, almost sucked through airplane window, 2.158
Christmas Story, movie, tongue frozen onto metal pole, 4.26
Christmas
dark triangle between reflecting spheres, 6.68
ornament, reflection effect, 7.28, 7.28
tree lights, blue weakens quickly with distance, 6.17, 6.17
Church
echoes, 3.61
incense swing, 1.114, 1.114
meridian, obelisk, moving spot of light, 6.23
sound from confessional focused by reflections, 3.62
whispering gallery, St. Paul's Cathedral, 3.63
window glass flow, 2.57
Churchill, Winston,, iceberg aircraft carrier, 2.160
Cicadas, sounds, 3.14
Cigarette smoke, colors, 6.153
Circular motion
egg, hard-boiled versus fresh, 1.107, 1.107
motorcycle Ball of Death, 1.211
pizza toss, 1.222
rattlebacks, 1.109, 1.109
tops
inverting, 1.106, 1.106
normal, 1.104
tour jete, ballet, 1.100
truck, fast turning, unstable, 1.239
Wheel of Death, 1.205
Circus acts,
aerial acrobat, first quadruple somersault, 1.98
balancing rods, 1.238
Cannonball Richards, catching cannonball in stomach, 1.46
Cirque du Soleil, 1.205
clown car, 1.237
flea circus, 1.200, 1.200
human cannonball, 1.32
juggling, 1.25
lasso acts, 1.84
loop-the-loop acts, 1.20, 2.1
motorcycle Ball of Death, 1.211
swinging, 1.113
sword swallowing, 6.87
tightrope walking, 1.91
tomahawk acts, 1.29
unicycle, 1.116
Wheel of Death, 1.205
Cirque du Soleil, The Wheel of Death, 1.205
City
building aerodynamics, 2.5
colors
brown haze, 6.16
distant city, 6.17, 6.17
red haze, 6.17
heat island, 4.85
Civil War sounds, American, acoustic shadows, 3.19, 3.19
Clarke, Arthur C., mirror death of football referee, 6.82, 6.82
Cleopatra, 2.165
Click beetle, energy source for leap into air, 1.40
Climbing,
rock, 1.60, 1.61, 1.60, 1.243
stairs, on head, 1.254
Clinging, snakes and rock climbers on vertical walls, 1.243
Closet, physics to do in a
light flashes from wintergreen mints, 5.19, 5.19
light from peeled adhesive tape, 5.17
reading in the dark, 7.15, 7.15
trailing ghost light, 7.16
Clothing
Bedouins black robes in hot regions, cooling effect, 4.59
coat warmth, 4.56
silk-on-silk moire patterns, 7.12
Cloud bows, atmospheric optics, 6.127
Cloud maps, maps in the sky, 6.20
Cloud streets, long thin lines, long horizontal vortexes, 2.138
Cloud-contrast bow, atmospheric optics, 6.10
Clouds
brightness, 6.58
contrail, 6.127
iridescent, 6.49
nacreous (mother of pearl), 6.144
noctilucent (luminous night clouds), 6.59
polarization sunglasses, appearance, 6.143
red, 6.6
silver lining, 6.58
Clown car physics, 1.237
Coal fire and burnt rocks, 5.51
Coals, walking on, 4.8
Coanda effect, fluid hugging curved surface
bombardier beetle, 2.50, 2.50
kitchen, 2.50, 2.50
pub tricks, 2.50
Coat warmth, 4.56
Cocktail-party effect, 3.27, 3.27
Coffee,
bad coffee, appearance, 2.87
cookie dunking, 2.95
cooling rates, 4.60
cup vortex, 2.24
drinking hot, 4.42
heated in hot sand, 4.115
mug acoustics, 3.40
video of me, Cleveland State University
patterns on surface, 2.90
percolators, 4.51
sloshing, controlling, 2.199
stain patterns, 2.91, 2.91
Coin
balancing, 1.239
dropped from tall building, 1.112
hidden by water, 6.84
rattling, pub trick, 4.103
removing, 1.230
stacking, 1.239
through small opening, 1.246
wobbling, 1.110
Cold welding, friction, 1.57, 1.57
Collisions
ball bouncing, strange, 1.76, 1.77
basketball-baseball, shot like a rocket, 1.43, 1.44
big-horn sheep, 1.10
boxing, 1.46
bullet-block, 1.267
Cannonball Richards, catching cannonball with stomach, 1.46
camel-car, 1.215, 1.215
cars on ice, 1.202
cars, shops, walls, 1.12
cat in long fall, 1.51, 1.51
chain, 1.42-1.44
driver thrown through windshield, 1.253
feline high-rise syndrome, 1.51
football headers, brain damage, 1.241
head-on collision
cars, 1.12
trains, 1.13
high speed, 1.12
jet airplane into wall, 1.12
karate, 1.45, 1.45
video, calculations
moose-car, 1.215, 1.215
Nike football commercial, 1.78
ships, 1.263
tae-kwon-do punch, 1.45, 1.45
video, calculations
window cleaner fall, 1.49
woodpecker striking tree, 1.10
Colloidal suspensions, 5.37
Colored rings
frosty window corona, 6.48
glory around your head's shadow, 6.46
misty bathroom mirrors, 6.110
Sun and Moon corona, 6.47
Color-shifting paint, 6.119, 6.119
Columnar joint, polygonal fracture patterns, Giant's Causeway, 1.143
Combustion by sparking
air-borne powder, 5.11
fuel station, 5.9
Hindenburg disaster, 5.15
hospital gurney acting as a capacitor, 5.16
race car pit stop, 5.9
surgery, 5.8
Compound eye, 6.117, 6.117
Concert
See also Music
classical
acoustics
hall, 3.61
orchestral pit, 3.61
soprano singing, 3.4
violin bowing, 3.34
violin flashing, 3.35
rock
amplifier distortion, 5.45
dance floor oscillations, 1.124
electric guitar, 5.44
head banging, retinal detachment, 1.11
hearing loss due to loud noise, 3.30
Hendrix rewrapping the electric pickups, 5.44
laser scanning of audience, 6.164
stroboscopic induced visual patterns, 7.7
Conch shell sounds, 3.36
Concorde aircraft length change due to heating 4.53
Concorde aircraft, radiation exposure, cosmic rays, 7.46
Concrete
pervious, 2.184
strength test, 1.277
Condensation
dunking bird
normal, 4.62
pumping water with large birds, 4.63
lizard rain harvesting, 2.82
on eyeglasses, 2.92, 4.66
on mirrors, 2.92, 4.65
Construction crane accidents, 1.206
Contact electrification, 5.8 – 5.14
Contraction, thermal, 4.53
Contrail, airplane,
colors, 6.143
formation, 2.20
heiligenschein association, 6.44
Contrast illusion, 6.50
Cook, James, visual blister effect, Venus transit across Sun, 7.27
Cookie dunking, correct way for, 2.95
Cooking
campfire, 4.46
eggs
boiling, 4.4
scrambled, 4.50
heat pipe, 4.64
meat colors, 4.45
microwave cooking and dangers, 4.48, 4.48
pizza, 4.47
potato, nails and heat pipes, 4.64
sidewalk and dashboard, 4.97
stove or over flames, 4.45, 4.46, 4.50
Cooling rates
coffee, 4.60
hot and warm water, 4.12, 4.12
Coriolis force
Big Bertha, German long range artillery 1.136
Falkland Islands long range artillery, 1.136
falling through Earth's center, 1.141
pouring tea on a rotating platform, 1.242
Cork, removing from wine bottle
plastic bag, 1.213
shoe used in slamming bottle, 2.196
Cornfield, sounds, 3.75
Coreneal nipples, 6.117, 6.117
Corn-starch solution
oscillation behavior, 2.58
polygonal fracturing while drying, 1.143, 1.143
viscosity behavior, 2.58, 4.89
walking across, 2.58
Corona
atmospheric, color bands around Sun and Moon , 6.47
electric, 5.21
frosty glass, 6.48
Corrugated
road, 1.185, 1.185
tubes, sounds from, 3.39
Cosmic radiation, 7.46
"Cosmic Zoom" a powers of ten movie, 6.163
Coughing, sound, 3.60
Counterfeiting,
color-shifting inks, 6.119, 6.119
optically variable devices (they are not holograms), 6.109
Cow magnets, 5.43
Cow tipping, 1.266
Crack networks, Giant's Causeway, polygonal, 1.143, 1.143
Cracking knuckles, sound production, 3.48
Cracks and cracking
balloon, 1.212
cornstarch polygonal patterns, 1.143, 1.143
Giant's Causeway polygonal patterns, 1.143, 1.143
mud, 4.68
Crane, construction accidents, 1.206
Credit card optical displays (they are not holograms), 6.109
Cricket, bowling in game of, 2.17
Crickets, chirps, 3.12, 3.13
Criss Angel, magic
floating between buildings, 1.210
walking on water, 6.89
Crocodiles
death roll, angular momentum, 1.209
floating adjustment with stomach stones, 2.49
vision, 7.18
Cross waves (edge waves, perpendicular to paddle), 2.71
Crown fires, 4.81
Crown flash (reflection by cloud ice crystals), 6.27
Crude noises, 3.93
Crumpling paper, 1.145, 1.229
Crystal skull, 1.208
Culvert whistler, 3.77, 3.77
Curie point, 5.51
Curling, sport of, 1.90
Currency, color-shifting inks, 6.109
Current, electric, effect on people, 5.23
Current crowding, danger of in people, 5.25
Currents, induced, 5.50
Curtain of death, rock curtain thrown up by meteorite impact, 1.37