Index E
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Eames, Ray and Charles, Powers of Ten movie, 6.163
Ear, sound emission, 3.28
Earthquake
damage, 2.103
liquefaction, 2.103, 2.103
lights, 5.20
Nimitz Freeway collapse, 2.103, 2.103
seisches, 2.67
waves, 2.67, 2.67
Earth's magnetic field, 5.39, 5.51
Earthshine, illumination of Moon, 6.43, 6.43
East Campus Dorm, MIT, large slingshot used to launch water balloons, 4.94
Easter Island statues, transparent across island, 1.62
Echoes
ancient structures, 3.66, 3.66
church, cathedral, 3.61
culvert whistlers, 3.77
Mayan pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico, 3.65, 3.65
Newgrange, ancient monument, Ireland, 3.66
racquetball court, 3.77
stairs and fences, 3.65
walls and forest groves, 3.64
zing echo, 3.77
zing whistler, 3.77
Eclipse solar images, 6.103
Eclipse, sky colors during, 6.11
Edge tones, police whistle, 3.3
Edge waves, 2.71
Edison, Thomas, AC versus DC argument, 5.22
Egan, Tomth, Dust Bowl, electrostatics and sparking, 5.29
Eggs
béarnaise sauce, 5.37
boiling, 4.44
bottle trick, 2.176
cooking on a hot, 4.97
dashboard
sidewalk
flipping in tequila glass, pub trick, 2.50
in bottle, 4.99
peeling, 2.176
scrambled, 4.50
spinning behavior fresh versus hard-boiled, pub trick, 1.107, 1.107
Cleveland State University video of me
standing, pub trick, 1.138, 1.138
water climbing the sides, 2.28
Electrical discharge, 5.30
Electric dipole, water stream deflection, 5.57
Electric fish, 5.28
Electric guitars, 5.44
Electric train, smallest, 5.61
Electric transmission lines
AC versus DC argument, 5.22
repairing live lines, 5.22, 5.22
Electrocution, 5.22 - 5.24
Electron emission, 4.101, 6.161
Electron waves, 1.208
Electroplaques, electric fish, 5.28
Electroreceptors, platypus, 5.56
Electrostatic
aircraft, 5.29, 5.29
Andes glow, 5.21
bacteria, 5.31, 5.31
bees and pollination, 5.32
car-to-car sparking, 5.10
cat, 5.8
dog, 5.8
Dust Bowl discharges, 5.29, 5.29
fire, 5.9, 5.9
fire ants not affected, 5.33
flying plastic rings, 5.59
fuel station fire, 5.9, 5.9
gurney fire in hospital, 5.16, 5.16
haboobs in dust storm, 5.29, 5.29
Hindenburg disaster, 5.15
knitting needles in space, 5.55
miniature art of Willard Wiggins, 5.8
oil tanker explosions, 5.13
plastic food wrap, 5.34
playground slides, 5.8
powder explosion, 5.11, 5.11
pub trick, match and Styrofoam cup, 5.8
razorbacks, Martian, 5.53
robot wall walking, 5.54
Saint Elmo's fire, 5.21, 5.21
salt-pepper electrostatic separation, 5.60
ski glow, 5.14
surgery, 5.8
sweaters, 5.8
toilet stall, 5.52
volcano, 5.30, 5.30
walking, 5.8, 5.8
water stream, 5.57
Elephants
calls over long distances, refraction of sound waves, 3.10
snorkeling, 2.53, 2.53
Elevator cabs, falling elevator
bomber crashes into Empire State Building, elevator falls, 1.54
what to do, 1.53
Elves, atmospheric optical displays, 5.6
Empire State Building, crash of bomber, elevator falls, 1.54
Emulsions, sauce béarnaise, 5.37
Endoscope, 6.87
Entrainment of air
Coanda effect, 2.50
shower curtain flutter, 2.21
Entropy and rubber bands, 4.94
Escalator torque, 1.257
Escape from
submarine, 2.54
submerged car, 2.189
Esophagoscopy, 6.87
Evans, R. M. L., honey and yogurt, draining patterns, 2.159
Evaporation
coffee cooling rate, 4.60
coffee surface pattern, 2.90
cooling in porous pottery, 4.61, 4.61
drying of wet clothing, 4.55
dunking birds
cult possibility, 4.63
normal, 4.62
pumping water with large, 4.63
eyeglass condensation clearing, 4.66
frog brain cooling with eye evaporation, 4.61
heat pipes, 4.64
wine pattern, 2.193
Expansion, thermal, 4.53
Explosion of airborne dust, 5.11, 5.11
Explosion
shock waves, 3.54
vortex, 2.40
Extinguisher ride (fake video), 1.168
Extreme waves, 2.64, 2.64
Eye
colors, due to backscatter of light, 6.122
butterfly, 6.117, 6.117
glare, 6.117, 6.117
mineral eyes, 7.51
moth, 6.117, 6.117
oscillations from humming act as stroboscope, 7.8, 7.8
red-eyes in photographs, 7.17
reflections from, 7.17
retinal detachment (headbanging, bungee jumping, high decelerations), 1.11
snowblindness, 6.55
visual effects
blind spot, 7.3, 7.3
blood cells, seeing their motion, 7.4
blood vessel network, seeing the, 7.4
floaters, 7.5, 7.5
illusion of spokes on Venus, 7.4
phosphenes, 7.7
artificial sight
electrically induced
flashing lights induced
LSD induced
pressure induced
Eye glasses
condensation clearing, 4.66
Lord of the Flies, starting a fire, 6.93
optical patterns, 6.98
pinhole reading, 7.33, 7.33
sunglasses
polarizing
printed page glare, 6.160
sky light, 6.126
windshield stress spots made visible, 6.129
UV light transmission, 7.41
yellow ski glasses, 6.56
whiteouts, 6.55