Index D
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da Vinci, Leonardo, smile of Mona Lisa, 7.31
Dam break, 2.182
Dambuster, rotating bomb used on German dams, 1.94, 1.94
Dance
grand jete (hanging in the air), 1.35
tour jete and fouette turn, 1.100
Dance floor oscillations, 1.124
Danube, caddis flies, attracted to polarized window reflections, 6.126
Darker when wet, 6.52
hair
road
sand
Dark side of the Moon, 6.43, 6.43
Dark-triangle illusion, 6.39
Darwin and twining plants, 1.207
Dashboard cooking, 4.97
Day I Vanished (head banging and retinal detachment), 1.11
Dead-cat bomb, 4.31
Dead water, 2.35, 2.35
Dead zones in concert halls, 3.61
Death roll, alligator, 1.209
Death Valley sliding rocks, 1.58
Decapitation, visual with the eye's blind spot, 7.3, 7.3
Deep diving
ascents and the bends, 2.52
scuba diving danger, 2.54
submarine escape, 2.54
Deep hole, rock dropping, 1.255
Deep sound channel, spying on Soviet submarines, 3.20
Deep-fat frying, 2.96, 4.80
Demolition
building, 1.204
chimney, 1.69, 1.69
Dental
aluminum foil, tooth fillings, electrical tingling, 5.27
thermal expansion of fillings, 4.53
Depressurization, danger in airplane, 2.158
Depth hoar, ice grains, 4.38
Desert
ant navigation, polarized sky light, 6.128, 6.128, 7.38
Bedouins, black robes, 4.59
booming sand dunes, 3.69
camel-car collisions, 1.215
cooling water with porous pottery, 4.61
Death Valley sliding rocks, 1.58
Dust Bowl, sparking, 5.29, 5.29
haboobs, sparking, 5.29
oasis mirage, 6.28
rain harvesting lizard, 2.82
sand, blown, sparking, 5.29
sand dune booming, 3.69
sand dune formation and migration, 2.111
tumbleweed attack, 2.186
water collected in arid regions, 4.67
water frozen by the sky, 4.13
yardang, rock formations, 2.112
Dessert,
baked Alaska, 4.98
cake, high altitude recipe, 4.71
frozen Florida, 4.98
ice cream, home made, 4.41
meringue, molecular bonds, air bubbles, water separation, copper bowls, 5.36
meringue insulation, 4.98
popped rice, 4.49
Dessication cracking, 4.68
Detached retina, head-banging and other high accelerations, 1.11
Devil's Postpile, polygonal fracturing, 1.143
de Villiers, S., honey and yogurt draining patterns, 2.159
Dewetting, 2.84
Diabolo, rotating toy, 1.108
Diamagnetic effect, frog levitation, 5.48
Diamonds, total internal reflection ruined by grime, 6.94
Didgeridoos, 3.37
Die swell, non-Newtonian fluid behavior, 2.58
Difference tone, hearing illusion, 3.29
Diffraction
sound waves
cheerleader's horn, fog horn, 3.21
speaking and whispering, 3.22
light waves
alphabet game, 6.155
beetle, opal coloration, 6.95
credit cards, optically variable graphics (not holograms), 6.109
corona, Sun and Moon, 6.47
disk, CD or DVD, 6.108
fine grooves, 6.108
floaters in your eye, 7.5
frosty glass, 6.48
glory, 6.46
gyrinid beetle, coloration by diffraction gratings, 6.115
iridescent clouds, 6.49
opal, 6.95
solid ball shadow, 6.151, 6.151
thumb and first finger spacing, 6.104
umbrella fabric, 6.104
window wire screen, 6.104
water waves
harbor waves, 2.165
Dimples, golf ball, longer flight, 2.15, 2.15
Dinosaurs,
blood pressure, 2.47
collisions, 1.10
curtain of death, 1.37
sounds, 3.9, 3.9
stomach stones (gastroliths), 2.49
swimming sauropods, 2.48
tail flick, possible shock wave, 3.59
Discus flight, 2.126
Disk, rotating river ice, 4.20, 4.20
Diving, platform and springboard
pikes, tucks, somersault, 1.97
springboard diving, 1.134
Diving, water
ascents and the bends, 2.52
snorkeling, dangers during, 2.53, 2.54
submarine escape, 2.54
Dog, electrostatically charged, 5.8
Dollar bill, balancing coin, 1.91
Dolphins
bow-wave riding, free ride, 2.70, 2.70
ring vortex production in play, 2.40
Domains, magnetic, 5.49
Dominos, falling, 1.68, 1.68
Donkey, dangling, 1.239
Doppler shifts
bat, flower locating, 3.25
bat, insect locating, 3.24, 3.24
illusion of shift, 3.23
production, 3.23
Downforce, race car, 2.1, 2.1
Downhill skiing and jumping,
crash (really bad), 2.7,
jumps before small slope change, 1.163,
speed skiing, 2.8
ski jump, 2.7, 2.7
Drafting, race car technique, 2.2
Drag racing
acceleration, 1.11, 1.11
retinal detachment, 1.11
starts, 1.151
tire distortion, severe, 1.151
Drawdown, canal effect, 2.30, 2.30
Dripping, sudden snap or long, drawn-out goodbye, 2.121
Driver license optical display (not a hologram), 6.109
Dropping rock in deep hole, measuring depth by sound, 1.255
Drops
beading, 2.84
floating, on water 2.74
hot skillet, 4.6, 4.6
splashing, 2.75
Drums, hearing the shape of, 3.73
Ducks
nonwetting, 2.97
vee-shape wake, 2.68
Dunes, sand,
booming and squeaking, 3.69, 3.69
formation and migration, 2.111
Langmuir circulation, 2.111
Dunking bird toy
large, 4.63
normal size, 4.62
possible cult, 4.63
Dust Bowl, electrostatics and discharges during, 5.29
Dust explosion, 5.11, 5.11
Dust devils
formation, 2.39, 2.39
sparking, 5.29, 5.29