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Spirals illusion

Optical illusion produced by a Java animation - with links to others

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http://dogfeathers.com/java/spirals.html

Disappearing Act

Certain patterns confuse your eyes and brain, causing you to misjudge the size of a circle, or the length of a line. This site contains a shockwave demonstrations of an optical illusion.

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/disappearing_act/shock_dis_act.html

Do bubbles in Guinness go down?

Optical illusion or physics-defying bubbles? The answer is here.

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http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/guinness/

Astronomy and Perception

List of links on astronomy slides and models. Also including optical illusion.

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http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/bookgdx.html

Depth Spinner

Certain patterns confuse your eyes and brain, causing you to misjudge the size of a circle, or the length of a line. This site contains a shockwave demonstrations of an optical illusion.

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/depth_spinner/index.html

Auditory illusion

An auditory illusion based on a keyboard. turn your volume down as this one's quite loud!

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http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/onlineexperiments/Auditory_Illusion.html

Introduction to Optical Tweezers

An explanation of how optical tweezers work, and how to set up and calibrate your own.

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http://www.nbi.dk/~tweezer/introduction.htm

Acoustic Illusion

Anechoic chamber designed with boxes and straws

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http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/audhole.html

Phun Physics Demonstrations - Flying in Mid-Air

An illusion using mirrors to make someone levitate.

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http://phun.physics.virginia.edu/demos/midair.html

Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Spectrometry

Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS) provides a rapid, direct bulk analysis and depth profiling analysis of solids: metals, powders, polymers, glasses and ceramics. Glow Discharge Optical Emission ...

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http://www.glow-discharge.com/

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