The_Cambridge_Handbook_of_Physics_Formulas

Index
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and Johnson noise [5.141], 117
Doppler [8.117], 173
natural [8.113], 173
of a diffraction grating [8.30], 164
of an LCR circuit [7.151], 148
of laser cavity [8.127], 174
Schawlow-Townes [8.128], 174
bar (unit), 5
barn (unit), 5
Barrier tunnelling, 94
Bartlett window [2.581], 60
base vectors (crystallographic), 126
basis vectors [2.17], 20
Bayes’ theorem [2.569], 59
Bayesian inference, 59
bcc structure, 127
beam bowing under its own weight [3.260],
82
beam efficiency [7.214], 153
beam solid angle [7.210], 153
beam with end-weight [3.259], 82
beaming (relativistic) [3.25], 65
becquerel (unit), 4
Bending beams, 82
bending moment (dimensions), 16
bending moment [3.258], 82
bending waves [3.268], 82
Bernoulli’s differential equation [2.351],
43
Bernoulli’s equation
compressible flow [3.292], 84
incompressible flow [3.290], 84
Bessel equation [2.345], 43
Bessel functions, 47
beta (in plasmas) [7.278], 158
binomial
coefficient [2.121], 28
distribution [2.547], 57
series [2.120], 28
theorem [2.122], 28
binormal [2.285], 39
Biot–Savart law [7.9], 136
Biot-Fourier equation [5.95], 113
black hole
evaporation time [9.81], 183
Kerr solution [3.62], 67
maximum angular momentum [9.80],
183
Schwarzschild radius [9.73], 183
Schwarzschild solution [3.61], 67
temperature [9.82], 183
blackbody
energy density [5.192], 121
spectral energy density [5.186], 121
spectrum [5.184], 121
Blackbody radiation, 121
Bloch’s theorem [6.84], 134
Bode’s law [9.41], 180
body cone, 77
body frequency [3.187], 77
body-centred cubic structure, 127
Bohr
energy [4.74], 95
magneton (equation) [4.137], 100
magneton (value), 6, 7
quantisation [4.71], 95
radius (equation) [4.72], 95
radius (value), 7
Bohr magneton (dimensions), 16
Bohr model, 95
boiling points of elements, 124
bolometric correction [9.34], 179
Boltzmann
constant, 6, 9
constant (dimensions), 16
distribution [5.111], 114
entropy [5.105], 114
excitation equation [5.125], 116
Born collision formula [4.178], 104
Bose condensation [5.123], 115
Bose–Einstein distribution [5.120], 115
boson statistics [5.120], 115
Boundary conditions for E, D, B, and
H, 144
box (particle in a) [4.64], 94
Box Muller transformation [2.561], 58
Boyle temperature [5.66], 110
Boyle’s law [5.56], 110
bra vector [4.33], 92
bra-ket notation, 91, 92
Bragg’s reflection law
in crystals [6.29], 128
in optics [8.32], 164
braking index (pulsar) [9.66], 182
Bravais lattices, 126
Breit-Wigner formula [4.174], 104
Bremsstrahlung, 160
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