Stories by Jearl Walker

can analyze optically active compounds

The kaleidoscope now comes equipped with flashing diodes and focusing lenses

How best to see Halley's comet while it is in view during the next few months

Strange things happen when two pendulums interact through a variety of interconnections

What forces shape the behavior of water as a drop meanders down a windowpane?

Cooking outdoors with simple equipment demonstrates aspects of thermal physics

Fly casting illuminates the physics of fishing

How the sun's reflection from water offers a means of calculating the slopes of waves

Cat's cradles and other topologies formed with a two-meter loop of flexible string

Experiments with the external-combustion fluidyne engine, which has liquid pistons

A field formula for calculating the speed and flight efficiency of a soaring bird

Bidwell's ghost and other phenomena associated with the positive afterimage

Searching for patterns of rainfall in a storm

Edge waves form a spokelike pattern when vibrations are set up in a liquid

A ball bearing aids in the study of light and also serves as a lens

The troublesome teapot effect, or why a poured liquid clings to the container

Success in racquetball is enhanced by knowing the physics of the collision of ball with wall

Deep think on dominoes falling in a row and leaning out from the edge of a table

People listening to a bell can perceive sounds the bell does not really make

Gismos that apply non-obvious physical principles to the enjoyment of cooking

In which heating a wire tells a lot about changes in the crystal structure of steel

The physics of Grandmother's peerless homemade ice cream

What is a fish's view of a fisherman and the fly he has cast on the water?

How to stop a spinning object by humming and perceive curious blue arcs around a light