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For Further Study 527 Nuclear Physics M. Harwit. 1998. Astrophysical Concepts,3rd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag. I. Kaplan. 1962 ...

Credits 529 PHOTO Chapter 1 Page 1:NASA; 4 :Elmer Taylor, courtesy AIP Niels Bohr Library; 9(top):AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archiv ...

530 Credits bei48482_Ch01.qxd Segrè Visual Archives; 430:NASA; 431:AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Collection; 4 ...

Index 531 Absolute motion, 2 Absorber thickness, 84 Absorption line spectrum, 128 ac Josephson effect, 385 Acceptor levels, 360 ...

Breeder reactors, 456 – 458 Bremsstrahlung, 68 Brillouin zones, 371, 372 Buckyballs, 344 Burnell, Jocelyn Bell, 330 C 60 buckyba ...

Doublet, 254 Down, 489, 490 Drain, 368 Drift velocity, 350 – 352 Drude, Paul, 354 Drude-Lorentz model, 354 D-T reactions, 464 Du ...

Elementary particles—Cont. mesons, 481 quantum numbers, 485 – 489 quarks, 489 – 494 resonance particles, 482 – 484 solar neutrin ...

Gigaelectronvolt (GeV), 32 Glashow, Sheldon Lee, 495 Glueballs, 496 Gluons, 494 Goeppert-Mayer, Maria, 409 Goudsmit, Samuel, 229 ...

Joule-Thomson effect, 385 Junction diode, 362 – 365 Junction transistor, 367 Junction-transistor amplifier, 367 Kseries, 256 Kal ...

Milky Way, 88 Miller, Ava Helen, 280 Mirror isobars, 417 Moderator, 454 Molecular bond, 267 – 269, 277 – 279, 349 Molecular elec ...

Nuclear transformations—Cont. radioactive series, 430 – 432 radiometric dating, 428, 429 triple-alpha reaction, 462, 463 Nucleon ...

flux, 383 space, 210 – 212 “Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem” (Schrödinger), 167 Quantum (quanta), 61 Quantum chromodynamic ...

Rydberg atoms, 135 Rydberg constant, 129 Salam, Abdus, 494, 495 Saturation, 398 Scanning tunneling microscope (STM), 160, 186, 1 ...

Einstein’s approach, 318 – 320 electron-energy distribution, 325 – 327 Fermi-Dirac distribution function, 307, 308, 310 free ele ...

Vacuum fluctuations, 320 Valence, 276 Valence band, 358 van der Waals forces, 345, 346, 349 van der Waals, Johannes, 345 Velocit ...

Table 7.2The Periodic Table of the ElementsGroup 1 2 345678 The number above the symbol of each element is its atomic number, an ...

bei48482_endpapers.qxd Physical Constants and Conversion Factors Atomic mass unit u 1.66054 10 ^27 kg 931.49 MeVc^2 Avogadro’ ...

bei48482_endpapers.qxd Characteristic Frequency, Photon Wavelength temperature Transition Hz energy, eV Radiation m h/k, K type ...

bei48482_endpapers.qxd Multipliers for SI Units a atto- 10 ^18 da deka- 101 f femto- 10 ^15 h hecto- 102 p pico- 10 ^12 k kil ...