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412 subject index<br />

F<br />

finite<br />

finite 264, 304<br />

finite number 297<br />

fire 216<br />

firefly 111<br />

fish<br />

weakly-electric 33<br />

flame 216<br />

and comb, photograph 342<br />

flash<br />

green, over Sun 123<br />

floating bed 66<br />

fluorescence 221<br />

fluorescence microscopy 140<br />

flux 343<br />

electric 27<br />

fogbow 126<br />

food industry 291<br />

foraminiferan 176<br />

forerunner velocity 131<br />

forest<br />

what glows in a 198<br />

forgery 247<br />

forgetting and entropy 248<br />

form, mathematical 84<br />

formal sciences 277<br />

formula<br />

lensmaker 200<br />

Foucault pendulum 136<br />

Fourier components 225<br />

Franz Aichinger 388<br />

Freederichsz effect 219<br />

frequency<br />

comb 366<br />

frequency mixing 222<br />

Fresnel number 347<br />

Friendbot 251<br />

frog<br />

levitating 214<br />

frog legs 32<br />

front velocity 131<br />

fuel, pouring 341<br />

full width at half maximum<br />

331<br />

function<br />

definition 266<br />

harmonic 212<br />

mathematical 266<br />

fund raisers 280<br />

furnace<br />

solar, photograph of 145<br />

fusion<br />

inertial confinement 147<br />

future and present 311<br />

G<br />

γ-rays 107<br />

GaAs 221<br />

gadolinium 218<br />

Galilean telescope 156<br />

gallium arsenide 216<br />

galvanometer 42<br />

gamma-ray bursts 324<br />

ganglion cell<br />

photosensitive 183<br />

garnet<br />

yttrium iron 57<br />

gas constant, universal 335<br />

gas lighter 97<br />

gases 220<br />

gate, logical AND 248<br />

gauge field 79, 82<br />

gauge invariance 81<br />

gauge symmetry 81<br />

gauge transformation 82<br />

gauge transformations 321<br />

Gauss rifle 57<br />

Gauss’s ‘law’ 28<br />

Gauss’s theorem 343<br />

Gaussian distribution 331<br />

Gaussian unit system 25<br />

Gd 217<br />

GdFeCo 218<br />

GdSiGe 218<br />

gene, D4DR 385<br />

genius 281<br />

geodynamo 210<br />

geometric phase 135–138<br />

mirror rotation,<br />

illustration 350<br />

Germany, illegality of life 144<br />

ghosts 353<br />

giant tsunami from Canary<br />

islands 323<br />

Giga 329<br />

glass 216, 218, 220<br />

glasses<br />

eye 192<br />

global warming 288<br />

glory 371<br />

photograph of 158<br />

glow of eyes of a cat 188<br />

glow-worm 221<br />

gluon 334<br />

Gnathonemus petersii 33<br />

god<br />

cannot surprise 322<br />

has no free will 322<br />

gods 248, 265, 284, 299, 300,<br />

303, 308, 318, 325<br />

goggles, night 148<br />

gold 154, 219<br />

Gonodyctylus smithii 125<br />

Goos-Hänchen effect 160<br />

Goos-Hänchen shift 196<br />

illustration 196<br />

grampus 300, 309<br />

graphite 213, 216, 217, 219<br />

gratings<br />

diffraction 161<br />

gravitational constant 333<br />

geocentric 336<br />

heliocentric 337<br />

gravitational constantG<br />

physics and 8<br />

gravitational coupling<br />

constant 333<br />

gravitoluminescence 222<br />

gravity<br />

Faraday-like cages 224<br />

gravity waves 120<br />

gray 329<br />

Great Wall 162<br />

Great Wall in China 372<br />

green 106, 187<br />

green flash 122, 368<br />

green ideas 287<br />

green ray 368<br />

green star 144<br />

grey matter 241, 251<br />

group mind 282<br />

group velocity 130<br />

group velocity can be infinite<br />

130<br />

Gruscanadensis 38<br />

guitar<br />

interferogram, photograph<br />

of 171<br />

Motion Mountain – The Adventure of Physics copyright © Christoph Schiller June 1990–November 2015 free pdf file available at www.motionmountain.net

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