Index
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Absolute motion, 2
Absorber thickness, 84
Absorption line spectrum, 128
ac Josephson effect, 385
Acceptor levels, 360
Actinide, 236
Activity, 422
AFM, 187
Allowed transitions, 220
Alpha decay, 398, 399, 421, 432 – 436, 468 – 470
Alpha decay constant, 435, 470
Alpha-particle energy, 433
Alpha particles, 120
Amorphous solids, 336, 337
Amplitude, 55
Anderson, Carl D., 310, 413, 478
Angular frequency, 99
Angular frequency of de Broglie waves, 101
Angular-momentum states, 209
Annealing, 338
Anomalous Zeeman effect, 229
Answers to exercises, 516 – 524
Antimatter, 478
Antimony, 360
Antineutrino, 437, 477 – 479
Antiparticle, 478
Antisymmetric wave function, 233 – 235, 306
Arsenic, 360
Asymmetry energy, 406
Atomic bomb, 453
Atomic clocks, 147
Atomic electron states, 210
Atomic excitation, 142 – 145
Atomic force microscope (AFM), 187
Atomic mass unit, 390
Atomic number, 122, 388
Atomic shells, 238–240
Atomic spectra, 127 – 130, 259 – 263.
See alsoSpectra
Atomic structure, 119 – 159
atomic excitation, 142 – 145
atomic spectra, 127 – 130
Bohr atom, 130 – 133
classical physics, 126, 127
correspondence principle, 138 – 140
electron orbits, 124 – 127
energy levels/spectra, 133 – 138
Franck-Hertz experiment, 144, 145
leasers, 145 – 151
nuclear atom, 120 – 124
nuclear motion, 140 – 142
quantization, 136Rutherford scattering, 120 – 124, 152 – 157
spectral series, 129, 130
Auger effect, 258
Auger, Pierre, 258
Aurora, 143
Avalanche multiplication, 367
Axioms, 503b, 443
B 2 O 3 , 336
Baade, Walter, 330
Balmer, J.J., 129
Balmer series, 129, 130
Band, 291
Band gaps, 356
Band theory of solids, 354 – 361
Bardeen, John, 381, 382
Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory, 381, 382
Barn (b), 443
Baryon number, 485
Baryons, 481, 482
Base, 367
Basov, Nikolai, 147
BCS theory, 381, 382
Beats, 99, 100
Becker, H., 389
Becquerel (Bq), 422
Becquerel, Antoine-Henri, 420, 431
Bednorz, Georg, 380
Bell, Jocelyn, 330
Benzene, 280, 281
Berg, Moe, 111
Bernal, J.D., 281
Beryllium hydride, 292
Beta decay, 398, 399, 421, 436 – 440
Bethe, Hans A., 461
Bias, 362
Big Bang, 14, 498 – 501
Big Crunch, 501
Binding energy, 31, 399 – 403
Binding energy per nucleon, 401
Binning, Gert, 186
Biographies
Bardeen, John, 382
Becquerel, Antoine-Henri, 420
Bethe, Hans A., 461
Bloch, Felix, 355
Bohr, Niels, 132
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 298
Born, Max, 95
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