Index I
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I am half sick of shadows, art, reflection from mirror, 6.75
Ice
bergy seltzer, iceberg sounds, 3.70
brightness, 6.57
brine cells, 4.11
camera lens, using ice lens, 6.93
carbonated drinks, sudden freezing, 4.24, 4.24
cars sliding on, 1.202
colors, 6.53, 6.57
crack, sinusoidal, 4.20
cubes
cloudy, 4.21
figures within, 4.22
formation, 4.20, 4.21
sounds of ice cube cracking in water, 3.70
spikes, 4.20, 4.20
worm holes within, 4.21
dams at house eves, 4.18, 4.18
dead-cat bomb, prank, 4.31
delay of freezing by
spraying orchard, 4.15
tub of water, 4.14
dendritic ice, 4.10, 4.19
disks, rotating in river, 4.20, 4.20
forming sooner with initially warm water, 4.12, 4.12
frozen by the sky, 4.13
frost circles and abandoned mines, 4.96
frost flowers on windows, 4.111, 4.111
frost heave of stones through ground, 4.29
glaze ice, 4.19
hot water thrown into very cold air, 4.16, 4.16
iceberg sounds,, bergy seltzer, 3.70
icehouse paradox, 4.90
icicles
formation, 4.17, 4.18
ripples and their migration, 4.17, 4.17
igloo, 4.36
microwaving frozen food, 4.11, 4.11
nucleating agent, 4.10
patterns on frozen pond, 4.23
permafrost cracking sounds, 3.79
pingos in permafrost, 4.27
pipes bursting in winter, 4.25
pointy ice drops, 4.20
polarization of frost flowers on window, 6.129
plumbing pipe bursting, 4.25
polygons in Arctic, 4.28
ponds and lakes, 4.23
power lines, icing, 4.19
reflections, crown flash, 6.27
rime ice, 4.19
salt, effect on freezing-melting point, 4.41
salty water freezing, 4.11, 4.11
sea ice, 4.11, 4.11
skating, 4.34
salt effect on water-ice slurry, 4.41
snowflake formation, 4.32
sounds of, 3.70
spikes, 4.20, 4.20
stone hitting ice, sound, 3.82
stones pushed upward through ground, 4.29
supercooling water, 4.10
throwing hot water into very cold air, 4.16, 4.16
Tyndall figures inside ice cubes, 4.22
walking on ice, 4.35
Iceberg, green, 6.53
Iceberg ship (proposed aircraft carrier), 2.160
Iceblink, map in the sky, 6.20, 6.20
Ice cream, homemade, churning, role of salt on the ice, 4.41
Icehouse paradox, entrance facing into rising sun, 4.90
Iceland volcano, electric discharges, 5.30, 5.30
Ice skating, lubrication is not due to pressure melting, 4.34
Icicle
formation, 4.17, 4.17
ripples and their migration, 4.17, 4.17
Igloos, internal temperature above external temperature, 4.36
IHTFP (common curse at MIT), 6.23
Illusion,
afterimage, 7.15, 7.15
Bidwell's ghost, 7.15, 7.15
beer mug thickness, illusion of beer volume, 6.136
beer, small versus large, 7.52
blind spot, 7.3, 7.3
Café wall illusion, 7.58
ceiling appearing be a floor, 7.50
Cheshire cat effect, 7.20
dots, Glass pattern, 7.29
eye oscillations and humming, 7.8, 7.8
fireworks, 7.49, 7.49
flying clouds and Blue Meanies, 7.22
ghost light, 7.16
ghost, stage illusion, 6.62
gravity hill, 1.140
head without a body, 6.62
hole in hand, 7.55
harmonic series hearing illusions, 3.29
Mach bands along a shadow's edge, 7.25
moon size, 7.1
neon spreading, 7.13
oil painting depth, 7.14
op art, 7.13, 7.13
Pepper's ghost, 6.62
positive afterimage, 7.15, 7.15
Pulfrich pendulum, depth with motion, 7.23
reading in the dark, 7.15, 7.15
rhino-optical effect, disappearing finger, 7.21
rotating snakes, 7.13
shadow hiding, 7.56
stairway, impossible, 1.258
star sapphire, 6.97
streetlight delay sequence, 7.24
take-off illusion from aircraft carrier, 1.17
train-size illusion, danger of at rail crossing, 7.59
underwater hearing, direction determination, 3.26
violin location illusion, 3.35
visual latency (delay), 7.23
water from nowhere, 6.166
Impressionism, 7.10
Implosion demolition, 1.204
Incense swing, pumping, Spanish cathedral, 1.114, 1.114
Indiana Jones, crystal skull, 1.208
Induced current, magnetically
electric guitar pickups and Jimi Hendrix, 5.44
solar flare results, 5.47
Trans-Alaska Pipeline currents
transmission lines disruptions and regional blackouts
telegraph disruption
train station currents in waiting passengers, 5.50
Infinite corridor, MIT, light shaft, 6.23
Infrared detection
beetle, remote sensing of forest fires, 4.2
snakes, 4.1, 4.1
Infrasound
car sickness, 3.74
Krakatoa world-wide sound waves, 3.74
machinery, 3.74
mountain ranges, 3.74
thunder, 3.56
tiger roar, 3.10
wind blowing past buildings, 3.74
Insect
aphid, liquid marbles, 2.94
bees, electrostatics, 5.32
beetles
bombardier, aiming its acid stream with coanda effect, 2.50, 2.50
brilliant white beetle due to internal structure of scales, 6.158
click beetle leap, 1.40
fog basking, 4.67
Hercules beetle, color shifting, 6.15
opal coloration, diffraction, 6.95
remote detection of forest fire by infrared light, 4.2
scarabeid, colors due to surface structure, 6.115
tiger beetle colors due to surface e structure, 6.115
whirl-a-gig colors due to diffraction gratings, 6.115
butterfly
colors due to surface structures, 6.115
vision, 6.117, 6.117
moth vision, 6.117, 6.117
polarized light from windows attracting flies, 6.126
plumes, 4.93
water strider, 2.80, 2.85, 6.89
Interference
acoustic sculpture, 3.86
color-shifting paints and inks, 6.109, 6.109
diffraction at harbor, 2.165
finely grooved objects, 6.108
herring, colors due to surface structure, 6.115
metal pan colors, 6.114
oil slick, 6.114
opal colors in beetle, 6.95
Poisson spot, 6.151, 6.151
soap film, 6.114
solid ball diffraction, 6.151, 6.151
tiger beetle, colors due to surface structure, 6.115
white beetle, 6.158
wineglass resonance, 3.44, 3.44
Internal waves, dead water captures ships, 2.35
Inverted glass of water, 2.120, 2.120
Inverted pendulums, 1.116
Invisible man, 6.90
Invisibility in water, 6.89, 6.89
iPod and lightning, 5.2
Iridescent colors
animals, 6.115
gyrinid beetle
herring
Morpho butterfly
scarabeid beetle
whirl-a-gig beetle
clouds, 6.49
meat, 6.135
paints and inks, 6.119, 6.119
pearls, 6.116
plants, 6.118
thin films, 6.114
cooking pans
oil slick
soap film
Italian Job, movie, bus on cliff edge, 1.216