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Simple Nature - Light and Matter

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Nikola, 178tesla (unit), 652thermal energycompared to heat, 75thermodynamics, 297first law of, 298, 328laws ofsummarized, 328second law of, 314, 326, 328third law of, 327, 328zeroth law of, 303, 328thermometer, 304Thomson, J.J.cathode ray experiments, 469timearrow of, 326time constantRC, 601time dilationgravitational, 427time reversal, 744timelike, 401torquedefined, 254related to force, 255, 284total internal reflection, 776transformer, 598, 687transmissionof waves, 360transmission of forces, 158triangle inequality, 406tunneling, 866twin paradox, 406ultraviolet light, 836uncertainty principle, 861in three dimensions, 879unitsnonmetric, 943units, conversion of, 29unstable equilibrium, 87vectoraddition, 194defined, 193division by a scalar, 194dot product, 212four-vector, 406magnitude of, 194multiplication by a scalar, 194subtraction, 194vector additionanalytic, 199graphical, 199vector cross product, 280vector product, cross, 280velocityaddition ofrelativistic, 409, 441, 937vector, 201group, 857phase, 857velocity filter, 656vision, 734volt (unit)defined, 515voltagedefined, 516related to electric field, 567volumeoperational definition, 34scaling of, 35Voyager space probe, 438waterspecific heat, 74wavedefinition of, 844dispersive, 779, 856electromagnetic, 697energy related to amplitude, 363light, 697wave model of light, 739, 786wave-particle duality, 844pilot-wave interpretation of, 846probability interpretation of, 846wavefunctioncomplex numbers in, 873of the electron, 855wavelength, 352wavesabsorption of, 360dispersive, 353frequency of, 351gravitational, 562interference, 368light, 350976 Index

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