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Exhibits by Phenomena

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Aberration: Chromatic (2)

Aberration: Spherical (2)

Absorption: Light (2)

Afterimage (1)

Albedo (1)

Apparent Motion (2)

Atoms and Particles (3)

Attention (3)

Auditory Perception (1)

Bernoulli Effect (1)

Biases (1)

Binocular Fusion (1)

Binocular Vision (1)

Blackness (3)

Centrifical Force (1)

Change of State (3)

Close Packing (3)

Coandă Effect (1)

Color (22)

Color Mixing (9)

Color Mixing: Subtractive (2)

Color Separation (3)

Color Vision (2)

Color: Complimentary (5)

Condensation (2)

Conservation of Angular Momentum (4)

Crystallization (2)

Cues: Amibiguous (1)

Cues: Dominant (2)

Damping (4)

Decomposition (2)

Depth Perception (2)

Diffraction (3)

Dispersion (1)

Economic Exchange (1)

Electric Current (2)

Electric Fields and Forces (2)

Electromagnetic Forces (7)

Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum (4)

Embryonic Development (3)

Emotion (3)

Energy: Conservation of Energy (4)

Energy: Kinetic (3)

Energy: Potential (3)

Energy: Transformation of Energy (5)

Evaporation (3)

Exponentials (4)

Fatigue (2)

Feedback (9)

Ferromagnetism (2)

Fluid Mechanics (9)

Fluorescence (1)

Frame of Reference (3)

Freezing (1)

Frequency (3)

Friction (4)

Gas Flow (1)

Gravitational Forces (4)

Gyroscopics (2)

Hand-Eye Coordination (3)

Harmonics (4)

Heat transfer (2)

Image Formation (20)

Images: Real (4)

Images: Virtual (1)

Inertia: Linear (1)

Inertia: Rotational (3)

Information and Noise (3)

Information Processing and Encoding (3)

Interference (5)

Ionization (1)

Iridescence (1)

Judgment (5)

Laminar Flow (1)

Lateral Inhibition (3)

Light Gathering (4)

Light Production (5)

Magnetization (4)

Melting (1)

Mental Activity (4)

Mental Tasks (1)

Metacognition (2)

Microscopy (3)

Modeling Landscapes (6)

Modulation (1)

Motion Detection (4)

Motion: Accelerated Gravitational Motion (3)

Motion: Accelerated Linear Motion (2)

Motion: Accelerated Rotational Motion (3)

Motion: Composition of Perpendicular Motion (2)

Motion: Pendular Motion (9)

Motion: Periodic Motion (7)

Motion: Rotational Motion (7)

Motion: Simple Harmonic Motion (4)

Motion: Visual Motion Detection (6)

Natural Frequency (8)

Nodes and Antinodes (2)

Nonlinear Behavior (9)

Number Series (2)

Numbers (3)

Oscillation (5)

Parabolas (2)

Parabolic Arc (2)

Parabolic Mirrors (4)

Parallax (2)

Patterns (27)

Perception: Spatial (4)

Persistence of Vision (6)

Phase (2)

Phosphoresence (1)

Photosensitivity (1)

Photosynthesis (1)

Phototaxis (1)

Polarization (1)

Precession (1)

Pressure (1)

Prisoner's Dilemma (1)

Probability (2)

Projections (2)

Randomness (5)

Reaction Time (5)

Reflection (25)

Refraction (9)

Reproduction (4)

Resonance (19)

Resource Sharing (3)

Rhythm (1)

Saturation (1)

Scanning (1)

Scattering (5)

Selective Awareness (2)

Shadows (9)

Size-Distance (3)

Social Dilemma (4)

Social Influence (1)

Social Loafing (1)

Stereotypes (1)

Sublimation (1)

Superposition (3)

Surface Tension of Liquids (2)

Symmetry (11)

Techniques to Make the Invisible Visible (11)

Temperature: Effect of (1)

Thin Films (2)

Time Effects in Perception (6)

Torque (4)

Turbulent Flow (7)

Upwelling (2)

Visual Edge Effects (3)

Vortices (4)

Wave Excitation (9)

Wave Guide (6)

Waves: Standing (3)

Waves: Transverse (4)

Wind (6)