The_Cambridge_Handbook_of_Physics_Formulas

Index
Section headings are shown in boldface and panel labels in small caps. Equation numbers
are contained within square brackets.
A
aberration (relativistic) [3.24], 65
absolute magnitude [9.29], 179
absorption (Einstein coefficient) [8.118],
173
absorption coefficient (linear) [5.175], 120
accelerated point charge
bremsstrahlung, 160
Liénard–Wiechert potentials, 139
oscillating [7.132], 146
synchrotron, 159
acceleration
constant, 68
dimensions, 16
due to gravity (value on Earth), 176
in a rotating frame [3.32], 66
acceptance angle (optical fibre) [8.77],
169
acoustic branch (phonon) [6.37], 129
acoustic impedance [3.276], 83
action (definition) [3.213], 79
action (dimensions), 16
addition of velocities
Galilean [3.3], 64
relativistic [3.15], 64
adiabatic
bulk modulus [5.23], 107
compressibility [5.21], 107
expansion (ideal gas) [5.58], 110
lapse rate [3.294], 84
adjoint matrix
definition 1 [2.71], 24
definition 2 [2.80], 25
adjugate matrix [2.80], 25
admittance (definition), 148
advective operator [3.289], 84
Airy
disk [8.40], 165
function [8.17], 163
resolution criterion [8.41], 165
Airy’s differential equation [2.352], 43
albedo [5.193], 121
Alfvén speed [7.277], 158
Alfvén waves [7.284], 158
alt-azimuth coordinates, 177
alternating tensor (ɛ ijk ) [2.443], 50
altitude coordinate [9.9], 177
Ampère’s law [7.10], 136
ampere (SI definition), 3
ampere (unit), 4
analogue formula [2.258], 36
angle
aberration [3.24], 65
acceptance [8.77], 169
beam solid [7.210], 153
Brewster’s [7.218], 154
Compton scattering [7.240], 155
contact (surface tension) [3.340], 88
deviation [8.73], 169
Euler [2.101], 26
Faraday rotation [7.273], 157
hour (coordinate) [9.8], 177
Kelvin wedge [3.330], 87
Mach wedge [3.328], 87
polarisation [8.81], 170
principal range (inverse trig.), 34
refraction, 154
rotation, 26
Rutherford scattering [3.116], 72
separation [3.133], 73
spherical excess [2.260], 36
units, 4, 5
ångström (unit), 5
I