MOTION MOUNTAIN

416 subject index
L
Lorentz
Lorentz gauge 49
Lorentz relation 48
Loschmidt’s number 335
Lourdes 284
Lower frequency limit 104
lumen 329
luminescence 221
luminous density 148
luminous intensity 147
luminous pressure 220
Lunokhod 162
lux 147, 329
LW, long waves 104
lx 147
M
μ 0 46
macula lutea 110
magic 307, 317
magic cubes and squares 275
magic hexagon 275
magic moments 316
magnet 64
currents inside 43
illustrations of types 34
puzzle 56
magnetar 35, 67
magnetic charge
(almost) no such 53
and pole strength 92
magnetic circular dichroism
218
magnetic field 17, 45
feeling it 37
mirror behaviour 44
table of properties 44
table of sensors 46
table of values 35
magnetic flux 76
magnetic flux density 45
magnetic flux quantum 335
magnetic induction 45
magnetic monopole 88
no such 53
magnetic pole
in a mirror 86
magnetic resonance 218
magnetic vector potential 80
magnetism
as relativistic effect 52–54
related to electricity 40
magneto–Seebeck effect 218
magneto-optical activity 218
magnetoacoustic effect 218
Magnetobacteriumbavaricum
40
magnetocaloric effect 218
magnetoelastic effect 217
magnetoencephalography 90
magneton, nuclear 336
magnetoreception 37–40
magnetoresistance 216
magnetorheologic effect 218
magnetosomes 40
magnetostriction 217
magnets 17, 35–37, 214
magnifying glass 155
Majorana effect 218
manet
for climbing 66
Manhattan as copper mine 22
mantis shrimp 111
mantle
Earth’s 211
many types 265
mapping
definition 266
mathematical 266
markers are bad for learning 8
marriage 235
maser 120
mass
negative 212
mass ratio
muon–electron 335
neutron–electron 336
neutron–proton 336
proton–electron 336
material
electro-optic 166
left-handed 160–162
negative index 161
negative refraction
160–162
table of dielectric
properties 39
table of electromagnetic
properties 216
table of magnetic
properties 38
visualizing magnetic
behaviour 37
materials
magnetic 35–37
mathematicians 236, 260, 273
mathematics
and concepts 261
as tool collection 273
defintion of 272
is applied physics 261
mathematics and language
259
matter
grey 241
stronger than mind 288
matter transformation 307
Matteucci effect 217
Maxwell’s demon 248
Maxwell’s equation
illustration of 75, 76
Maxwell’s field equations
first 74–75
second 75–77
Maxwell’s field equations of
electrodynamics 49
measurability 27, 44
of charge 23
measurement
and standards 294
as classification 294
baths and 247
comparison 330
definition 294, 327, 330
irreversibility 330
meaning 330
process 330
measurement error
definition 330
Mega 329
Meissner effect 218
memories 246, 296
memory 238
definition 246
not imborn 250
synapses and 246
memory erasing 248
memory, write once 249
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