Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Water; Cartesian Matches; The Gorilla Effect; Somesault Shell; Two 10-Cent Betchas; A Water Transfer; Water Level Riddle; Two Corking Good Challenges; The Dancing Triangle; The Marble and the Cork; How to Measure Volume; Three Jets; Air; Invisible Glue; Three for Bernoulli; A Blow for Bernoulli; The Mysterious Balloon; The Unbreakable Balloon; Fire; Candle Seesaw; Miniature Rocket; Light from the Wrong End; Heat; A Penny for Your Thoughts; Psychic Motor?; The Twisty Snake; Gravity; A Snap and a Drop; The Biased Penny.Balancing SilverwareMake a Magic Bird; Three Drop Tasks; Motion and Inertia; The Falling Keys; Roly-Poly Folder; Stabbing an Eggshell; The Waltzing Eggshell; Puzzling Quarters; Bottle, Hoop, and Dime; Rotating Egg; The Rising Marble; Pool Hustler Scam; Which Thread?; Transporting an Olive; The Frustrating Papers; Swinging Cups; Friction; Balancing a Book; Climbing Bear; Curious Feedbacks; Magnetism; The Levitated Paper Clip; The Floating Paper Cup; Psychokinesis?; Pill Bottle and Paper Clip; Electricity; Sneaky Switches; The Electric Pickle; The Human Battery; Sound; A Puzzling Moo Horn.Music from PaperMysterious Spirit Raps; A Talking Machine; The Ghostly Glass; Light; Colored Shadows; A Mirror Paradox; The Pulfrich Illusion; Retinal Retention; A Blacklight Code; A QM Paradox; Another Mirror Paradox; Blacker than Black; Sensory Illusions; A Square That Ain't There; Where Does the Water Go?; The Enchanted Die; Left- or Right-Eyed?; The Bent Playing Card; Zombie Glass; An Illusion of Weight; Magnetized Pencils?; The Puzzling Snap; Touching Hands; Funny Brush-Off; Sloping Teeth; Multiplying Marbles; Probability; Whirling Wire; The Bunch Effect; A Probability Swindle.Surprising Dice BetAre You Psychic?; Dollar Bills; Linking Paper Clips; See George Smile and Frown; Put George to Sleep; Turn George Upside Down; Support a Glass; The Balanced Half-Dollar; How Many Eyes?; Blow It Over; Index.Make an eggshell turn a somersault, spin a coin so that it lands on ""heads, "" teach a bear to climb a string, and perform other acts of scientific wizardry! Martin Gardner, the master of mathematical puzzles, shares more than 80 of his finest magic tricks, teaching children and adults the scientific properties behind water, air, fire, heat, motion, gravity, inertia, friction, electricity, magnetism, sound, and light. Fun and fascinating, the simple maneuvers require only basic everyday props, and those requiring matches, knives, boiling water, and other tricky items are marked with a symbol t.