Gigaelectronvolt (GeV), 32
Glashow, Sheldon Lee, 495
Glueballs, 496
Gluons, 494
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria, 409
Goudsmit, Samuel, 229, 230, 233
Gould, Gordon, 147
Grand unified theory (GUT), 497
Graphite, 342, 343
Gravitational interaction, 475, 476
Gravitational red shift, 87, 88
Gravitational waves, 36
Graviton, 494
Gravity, 34, 85 – 89
Greek alphabet, 529
Greenhouse effect, 316
Ground state, 134
Group velocity, 97 – 103
Groups, 236
Gurney, Ronald W., 434, 435
GUT, 497
Guth, Alan, 503
Gyromagnetic ratio, 224H 2 +molecular ion, 269 – 274
H 2 O molecule, 289, 346, 347
Hadrons, 481 – 484
Hahn, Otto, 452
Half-life, 424 – 429
Hamiltonian operator, 176
Harmonic oscillator, 187 – 192, 287, 323
Harmonic-oscillator wave functions, 191
H-bar, 112
HCl molecule, 269
Heavy water, 388
Heisenberg, Werner, 108, 111, 161, 322, 412
Heitler, Walter, 355
Helium, 228, 260 – 262
Helium-neon gas laser, 150
He-Ne laser, 150
Hermite polynomial, 190
Hertz, Gustav, 144
Hertz, Heinrich, 54
Herzberg, Gerhard, 287
Higgs boson, 496
Higgs field, 496
Higgs, Peter, 496
High-temperature superconductors, 380, 381
Hilbert, David, 167, 487
History of the universe, 498 – 501
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot, 281
Hodgkin, Thomas, 281
Holes, 360
Homonuclear molecules, 291
Hooke’s law, 187
Hoyle, Fred, 462
Hubble, Edwin, 13
Hubble Space Telescope, 364
Hubble’s law, 14
Hubble’s parameter, 502Index 535
Hulse, Russell, 36
Hund’s rule, 247
Hybrid crystals, 279 – 281
Hydrogen atom, 259, 260. See alsoAtomic
structure; Quantum theory of hydrogen atom
Hydrogen bond, 346, 347
Hydrogen molecular ion, 269 – 274
Hydrogen molecule, 268, 274, 275
Hydrogen spectrum, 136
Hydrogen-atom wave function, 203
Hydrogenic atom, 159
Hyperfine structure, 253IBM PowerPC 601 microprocessor chip, 361
Ice crystal, 347
Ideal spectrometer, 127
Ignition, 464
Impact parameter, 152
Impurity semiconductors, 360
Indium, 360
Inelastic collision, 145
Inertial frame of reference, 2
Inflationary universe, 503, 504
Infrared laser, 119
Infrared spectrometer, 266
InP, 361
InSb, 361
Instantaneous amplitude, 55
Insulators, 358, 359
Interacting atoms, 356
Interference, 56
Interial confinement, 467
Intermediate vector bosons, 494
Internal conversion, 440
International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor (ITER), 465, 466
Invariant, 46
Inverse beta decay, 439, 440
Inverse Lorentz transformation, 42
Inverse photoelectric effect, 68
Ionic bonds, 269 – 270
Ionic crystals, 338 – 342, 349
Ionization energy, 134, 244
Island of stability, 411
Isolated n-p-ntransistor, 368
Isomer, 441
Isotope effect, 381
Isotopes, 388
ITER, 465, 466
Iwanenko, Dmitri, 389Jeans, James, 58, 311, 313
Jensen, J.H.D., 409
jjcoupling, 409
Joint European Torus, 465
Joliot, Frederic, 389
Jordan, Pascual, 111
Josephson, Brian, 384
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