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| Physics of a CD player | |
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| BIO: Echolocation in bats | |
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| Train crash illustrates the importance of precision in measurement | |
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| Vectors in a caribou's swim across a river | |
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| Average velocity on "the crookedest street in the world" | |
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| Average speed/average velocity of a race car | |
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| Negative acceleration of a drag racer | |
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| BIO: Human centrifuge | |
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| High-performance yo-yos | |
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| A car's three accelerators | |
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| Rate of change of velocity in juggling | |
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| BIO: Bombardier beetle demonstrating projectile motion | |
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| Human cannonball as projectile | |
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| Uniform circular motion in global positioning systems | |
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| Catapult demonstrating Newton's first law | |
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| Tablecloth trick: Inertia | |
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| Bubble chamber image: Studying particles | |
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| Lunar golf | |
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| Biathlete using Newton's third law | |
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| Rocket launch | |
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| Tug-of-war | |
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| Crane unloading Very Large Telescope mirror | |
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| Liquid-filled accelerometer | |
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| Rock climber using frictional forces | |
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| Wet saw cutting stone | |
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| BIO: Ultracentrifuge | |
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| Centripetal force in bobsledding | |
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| BIO: Runner using Newton's third law | |
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| Gravity map of the earth | |
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| "Skycycle" takeoff | |
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| BIO: Elastic potential energy in kangaroo hopping | |
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| Reduced air drag on a recumbent bicycle | |
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| BIO: Elasticity of tendons and ligaments | |
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| BIO: Carrying weight on the head | |
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| BIO: Energy expended in climbing El Capitan | |
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| BIO: Grasshopper's catapult mechanism | |
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| BIO: Measuring a llama's oxygen consumption | |
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| BIO: Contrecoup brain injury | |
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| Conservation of momentum in a bowling strike | |
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| Momentum of sumo wrestlers | |
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| Light sail | |
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| BIO: Frog's legs demonstrating impulse | |
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| Center of mass in balancing acrobats | |
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| BIO: Jet propulsion in jellyfish | |
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| Hand drill demonstrating angular velocity | |
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| Velocipede direct-drive bicycle | |
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| Storing energy in a flywheel | |
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| Moon orbiting earth | |
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| Balancing on a tightrope | |
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| Oxen turning water-well lift | |
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| Nanoengineered gears | |
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| Andaman earthquake's effects on length of day | |
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| Spinning dinner plates | |
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| Rifling in a gun barrel | |
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| Cable-stayed bridge | |
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| Weighing a fish | |
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| Bio: Buoyancy in deep-sea hatchetfish | |
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| Bio: Strength and elasticity in a spider's web | |
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| Nanobalance | |
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| Foucault pendulum | |
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| Bio: Injuries from a jackhammer's vibrations | |
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| Earthquakes: Transverse and longitudinal waves | |
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| Wave generation in a surf pool | |
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| Superposition of mechanical waves in water ripples | |
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| Bone flutes: Standing waves | |
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| Bio: Sound-wave vibrations in the human ear | |
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| Use of sonar in search of shipwrecks | |
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| Doppler radar in meteorology | |
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| Differing liquid densities in a coffee drink | |
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| Bio: Measuring fluid pressure in the human eyeball | |
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| Snowshoeing to reduce pressure | |
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| Bio: Floating in the Dead Sea | |
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| Turbulent flow in a meandering river | |
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| Roof blown off by hurricane | |
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| Hydrothermal vent | |
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| Bimetallic strip | |
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| Snowflakes | |
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| Bio: Using a calorimeter to measure a cow's heat production | |
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| Bio: Heat conduction in predatory fishes | |
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| Hawaiian islands: Built by convective flow | |
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| Bio: Infared images | |
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| Solar car | |
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| The Milky Way: One trillionth of a mole of stars | |
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| Martian dust devil | |
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| Bio: Scuba-diving hazards | |
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| High-temperature calibration of a platinum resistance thermometer | |
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| Hydrogen affects planet size | |
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| Venus: An arid furnace | |
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| Nuclear submarines as steamships | |
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| The sun's energy | |
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| Geothermal power in Iceland | |
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| "Bio-diesel" engines | |
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| How a refrigerator works | |
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| Energy cycles of the earth and its organisms | |
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| Zero-power homes | |
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| Electric charge preceding a lightning strike | |
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| Salt water conducts electricity | |
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| Bio: "Static cling" in DNA | |
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| Atom-smashing with Van de Graaff generators | |
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| Bio: Platypus sensing electric fields | |
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| Bio: Fish producing and using an electric field to sense its surroundings | |
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| Car acting as a Faraday cage in an electrical storm | |
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| Bio: Voltage-gated potassium channel in cell membrane | |
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| Lightning bolt | |
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| Bio: Bird perching on power line | |
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| Sandia Lab's capacitor bank discharging | |
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| Bio: Capacitors in cardiac defibrillators | |
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| Semiconductors | |
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| Magnetic-levitation trains | |
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| Bio: Electric eels | |
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| Bio: Recharging ATP molecules | |
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| LED bicycle lights | |
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| Bio: Wrist strap grounding electronics worker | |
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| Bio: Homing pigeons: Using earth's magnetic field | |
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| Bio: Magnetic resonance imaging | |
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| Microwave ovens | |
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| Direct-current motors | |
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| Coaxial cable | |
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| Magnetohydrodynamic pump | |
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| Induction cooktop | |
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| Portable energy pack | |
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| Using an electromagnetic tether to deorbit satellites | |
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| Recharging pad for electronic devices | |
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| Using magnetic fields to catch red-light runners | |
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| Step-down transformers | |
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| L-C circuits in tuning knobs | |
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| Alternating and direct current | |
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| Power surge protection | |
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| Radio antenna | |
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| Cerenkov radiation in a nuclear reactor pool | |
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| Galaxy in different spectral regions | |
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| Bio: Ultraviolet vision in animals | |
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| Physics of a double rainbow | |
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| Photoelastic stress analysis | |
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| Driver's blind spot | |
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| Side-view convex mirrors | |
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| Bio: Seeing in focus | |
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| Diamond lenses used in optical data storage | |
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| Bio: Compound eyes | |
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| Bio: Animals' focusing mechanisms | |
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| Eyeglass lenses | |
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| X-ray telescope | |
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| Telescope mirrors | |
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| Waves diffracting in the ocean | |
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| Nonreflective coating on museum cases | |
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| Bio: Structural color in butterflies | |
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| Bio: Using diffraction gratings to measure DNA | |
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| Reflection diffraction grating in CDs | |
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| Modern telescopes using interferometry | |
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| Throwing a ball: Inertial frame of reference | |
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| Time at the finish line | |
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| Time travel | |
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| Space and time | |
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| Nuclear power: E = mc[superscript 2] | |
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| Smoke detectors | |
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| Fireworks | |
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| Ruby lasers | |
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| Bio: Boron neutron capture therapy for brain cancer | |
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| Bio: Electron microscopy | |
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| "Neon" lights | |
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| Bio: DNA double helix: Bonding | |
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| Diamonds and graphite | |
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| Electron vacancies in semiconductors | |
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| Transistor radio | |
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| Size of nucleus relative to atom | |
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| Bio: Penetrating power of different types of radiation | |
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| Bio: Radiocarbon dating | |
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| Bio: Residence time of radionuclides in the body | |
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| Bio: Gamma-ray radiosurgery | |
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| Bio: Nuclear medicine: Bone scans | |