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424 subject index T table d’Unités (SI) 327 T table as antigravity device 215 tachymeter 72 Talbot-Lau interferometer 167 tanker oil, sinking 60 tap water 16 tape adhesive 198 adhesive, dangers of 58 tape, adhesive X-rays from 354 tapetum 150 tau mass 334 tax collection 327 TbCl 3 221 TbDyFe 217 teacher honesty of 278 teachers 251 teaching best method for 9 teeth 224 are piezoelectric 225 teeth growth 225 telecommunication 144 telescope 156 types, photographs of 157 telescopes in nature 156 telescopy 140 television image of cathode ray tube 189 killing curiosity 290 television tube 190, 221 temperature negative 147 tensor 47 antisymmetric 45 energy–momentum 85 TeO 2 220 Tera 329 terahertz waves 105, 224 terms 256 tesla 45, 329 Tesla coil 54, 55, 59 test 313 test charge 25, 45, 231 tetrachromaticity 125 thallium 118 theoretical physicists 281 theoreticians 281 theory 285 origin of term 281 theory of everything 235 theory of evolution 285 theory of motion final 235 theory, physical 285 thermal emission 216 thermal equilibrium 145 thermal radiation 144, 216, 223 thermoelectric effect 216 thermoelectric effects 216 thermoelectric element 28 thermoluminescence 222 thermomagnetic effects 218 theses 281 theta waves 241 thin lens formula 156, 200 Thomson effect 216 thought reading 90 thunderclouds are batteries 207 thunderstorms 204 tide and magnetic fields 62 and magnetism 61 time inversion 86 TNT energy content 336 TOE 235 tomography 141, 175–177 cryo-electron 176 electrical resistivity 176 magnetic induction 176 muon 177 optical coherence 177, 186 opto-acoustic 176 positron emission 176 X-ray 176 tonne, or ton 329 tooth decay 224 toothpaste 246 toothpick 208 top quark mass 334 topological structures 267 topology 133 torque 44 tourmaline 219 trace 48 tractor beam 134 transfinite numbers 265 transformation of matter 307 transformation relations 321 transformer Maxwell equation and 75, 77 Poynting vector field of 83 solar storm and 225 water correspondence 66 transistor 66 transition radiation 222 transmitter simplest possible 97 transparency 220 transsubstantiation 285 trap rotating, photograph 214 tree 268 trees and electricity 16 triboelectricity 216 triboluminescence 221, 354 trichromaticity 124 triplet, Pythagorean 274 trirefringence 108 trit 255 tritan 197 tropical year 336 true 284 truth 281 definition of 281 tubular laser beam 198 tungsten 134 tusk of narwhale 72 tv 221 tweezers optical 118 U udeko 329 Udekta 329 UFOs as lie 285 Motion Mountain – The Adventure of Physics copyright © Christoph Schiller June 1990–November 2015 free pdf file available at www.motionmountain.net
subject index 425 U UHF UHF, ultra high frequency 105 ultrasound imaging 201 Ultraviolet 106 ultraviolet photograph 180 ultraviolet light 101 umbrella and nonsense 289 decomposes light 119 unboundedness 27, 44 uncertainty relative 331 total 331 unconscious 90 uncountability 265 unification 312 unit astronomical 336 definition 294 unit systems 25 units 327 non-SI 330 provincial 330 units, SI definition 327 universal grammatical 258 lexical 258 semantic 258 universal semantic primitives 258 universe 237 existence of 306 is comprehensible 305 is it a set? 304–305 is not information 245 not designed 308 only one 298 universe recollapse 324 universes, other 283 UNIX 31 unnatural phenomena 298 up quark mass 334 urban legends 162, 289 UVA 106 UVB 106 UVC 106 V vacuum 133, 302–303 as carrier 133 as medium 133 Maxwell’s unsuccessful model 72 table of properties 133 wave impedance 133, 135 vacuum permeability 333 vacuum permittivity 333 vacuum wave resistance 335 vacuum, unstable 324 value 266 vampire 115 variable definition 294 variance 331 vector potential dragging by charges 81 magnetic 80 vendeko 329 Vendekta 329 verb 258 verification 316 VHF, very high frequency 104 Villari effect 217 violet 106, 197 viper pit 190 temple 190, 191 virtual image 155 viscosity 222 vocabulary 257, 272 void 302–303 Voigt effect 218 volcano, giant 323 volt 68, 329 voltage 29 indeterminacy 71 table of values 54 voltaic cell 28 vortex lines 79 W W 216, 219 W boson mass 334 wafer steppers 201 walking 243, 380 walking on two legs 243 wall plug 92 warming, global 288 water 217, 222 water flow and electronics 65 waterfall and charge 227 watt 329 wave angular momentum 120 definition 95 electromagnetic 95, 111 electromagnetic, illustrations of 96 evanescent 161, 196, 349 harmonic 95 range of 111 speeds, films of types 129 speeds, illustration of 130 spherical electromagnetic 92 terahertz 105 wave equation 95 wave vector 95 wavelength 100 de Broglie 328 waves circularly polarized 111 electromagnetic 95 terahertz 224 weak mixing angle 333 weapons electromagnetic 150 with light 150 weber 329 Weigert effect 220 weko 329 Wekta 329 whale brain 251 whale, blue 192 whales 251 whirl, hair 87 white 143 white dwarf 35 white, pure 143 whole, the 237 Wiedemann effect 217 Wien’s colour displacement 144 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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12 contents Do we see what exists?
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