McGill, Ormond: Science Magic ©1984 Ormond McGill, Prentice Hall Press, NY Softcover, 163 pages ISBN: 0-668-05853-6 Originally Published by Arco Press

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Comments: "101 Experiments You Can Do. Great Magic Tricks that teach and entertain at the same time."

Contents (from book):

ii Preface (Ormond McGill)
iv Author's Note: where to find supplies

1 Chapter 1 Magic With Magnetism
1 The Magnet Brush: with iron filings
3 The Swinging Magnets: experiment in polarity
4 The Levitated Needle: stands upright
5 The Magnetic Motor: using heat and a magnet
7 The Dancing Doll: small doll dances under a glass
9 The Revolving Pencil: moves mysteriously
11 The Magic Arrow: static electricity makes an arrow move
13 The Animal Magnetism Motor: a paper pyramid rotates by mind power
16 The Human Magnet: knife clings to the hand
17 The Magnetized Cane: cane dances while seated in chair
19 A Complete Magical Magnetism Act:
21 - The Magnetized Strips of Newspaper
23 - The Magnetized Stick: rising stick
24 - The Magnetic Impulse: spectator feels the impulses of a stick
25 - The Magnetized Playing Cards: cards cling to the fingers
27 - Magnetic Table Lifting

30 Chapter 2 Magic With Numbers
30 Tricky Numbers: fun facts
32 Add a Number: mathematical trick
32 The Age and Loose Change Trick: tell age and amount of change in the pocket
34 Family-History Arithmetic: number reveals how many brothers and sisters
35 Funny Arithmetic: two puzzles
36 Guessing the Erased Number
37 The Five Odd Figures: a betcha
38 Which Hand Holds Which Coin
38 The Psychic Book Test: using numbers
41 The 1089 Card Trick: prediction
41 The Human Calculator: instant addition demonstration
42 How to be a Lightning Calculator
44 I Have Your Number: multipication prediction
46 Some Number Funnies: some math oddities
49 A Number Game: arithmetic practice
50 The Mysterious Number Nine

51 Chapter 3 Magic With Chemistry
53 The Wine and Water Trick: color change
56 Is It Wine Or Is It Water?: color of liquid changes as it is watched
58 Capturing Smoke in a Glass of Water
59 The Eggs That Read: Eggs marked sink, float and swim obey their command
61 The Amazing Finger Ring: ring does not fall from burnt string
62 The Magic Flower Seeds: a seed sprouts in liquid
63 The Color Changing Powder
64 The Indestructible Card: won't burn
65 The Restless Mothball
65 The Darting Camphor: darts like a miniature jet
66 Changing Two Liquids Into a Solid
66 The Tricky Soap: soap makes hands dirty
67 Dry Water
68 A Flash of Fire
68 The Magic Wound: a rubber knife draws blood
69 The Ghostly Faces: illusion in the semi-darkness
70 The Red Hand: palmprint
71 The Black Hand: hand dipped in water turns black
72 The Magic Sand of Arabia: stays dry when wet
73 The Magic Soda Fountain Act: pour multiple different sodas that can be drank
75 The Rainbow Waters: decanter of water can be tasted, yet pours out multiple colors

78 Chapter 4 Magic With Dry Ice
81 Making a Dry Ice Fountain
82 How to Weigh Nothing: pouring "nothing" into a glass makes a scale tilt
82 Putting Candles Out by Magic
83 Making Water Boil From Freezing Cold
83 A Few Quickie Tricks With Dry Ice
85 More Novel Tricks With Dry Ice
86 Jars of Mystery Vapor
87 Rubber Band Snakes
88 Soft Drinks for Everyone: that can be drank
88 The Ghost Rings: spectators feel ghostly fingers

92 Chapter 5 Magic With Physics
92 Acoustics
93 Visible Sound Vibrations: using water
94 The Musical Bottle: with tuing fork
94 The Musical Glass
96 How to Tune a Guitar Without Using Your Ears: visual tuning
97 The Sound Magnifier: a balloon
97 The Aeolian Harp: using catgut for strings
98 The Magical Humming Glass
100 The Matchbox Monte Trick: spectator can't track the matchbox with matches
102 Capillary Attraction
102 The Hungry Matches: matches move in water
104 The Racing Water Drops: race with water on wax paper
106 Centrifugal Force
106 The Whirling Coat Hanger: coin stays suspended
107 Whirling a Glass of WAter Upside Down Without Spilling a Drop
108 The Hindu Climbing Balls: appear to defy gravity
111 Heat
112 The Dancing Peper Dolls: on a hot plate
113 The Revolving Snake: cardboard snake spins over a candle
114 Mechanics
115 Gravity
116 The Magic Pipe: balancing effect
117 The Prancing Horse: plastic horse balances
118 Precarious Balancing: knifes in a cork on a bottle
120 The Obedient Egg: egg stays in any position
121 Suspension: puzzles with mechanics of suspension
124 Optics
124 The Invisible Coin Trick: coin in bowl becomes visible
126 The Prism Rainbow: experiment with a prism
127 The Color Disk: spun color disk becomes white
128 The Thaumatrope: spinning bird appears in a cage
129 The Blind Spot: human vision experiment
131 The Water Mirror: how water affects vision
132 The Boundless Menagerie: peering into a box reveals endless animals
133 The Magic Mirror: peering into the box reveals the person next to you
134 The Seebackascope: see behind you
135 The Periscope: see above a wall
136 How To See Through a Solid Brick: using mirrors
137 The Decapitated Princess Illusion
140 A Black Art Magic Show
140 - The Classic Show
143 - Miniaturized Black Art

151 Chapter 6 Teaching Children the Art of Magic

156 Index of the Experiments
158 Index