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Table 57-1. The first 20 orders of rainbows of water, calculated from geometrical optics. This table shows the rainbow angleska ...

Figure 57.5: Locations of the first 20 orders of rainbows in the sky. Each order bow is dimmer and wider than the previous one. ...

Figure 57.7: First ever photograph of a fourth-order (quaternary) rainbow, taken in northern Germany in (a) Original photograph ...

Part VI VI Modern Physics ...

Chapter 58 Special Relativity 58.1 Introduction The classical mechanics described by Sir Isaac Newton begins to break down at ve ...

(Note that 1 .) The time intervalt 0 , measured when you’re at rest with respect to the clock, is called theproper time. This ...

58.7 Addition of Velocities Let’s suppose that we have two bodies moving in one dimension. The first is moving at speedu, and th ...

It is not obvious that this reduces to the classical expression until we expand into a Taylor series: D  1  v^2 c^2 1=2 D 1 ...

Chapter 59 Superfluids When liquid helium-4 (^4 He) is cooled below a critical temperature of 2.17 K (called thelambda point), a ...

Figure 59.1: The fountain effect in superfluid liquid helium II. (Credit: NASA.) Figure 59.2: A Rollin film of helium II. The fi ...

is open, it will creep back down the outside, so that the helium II will spontaneously creep out of the container (Fig. 59.2). T ...

Chapter 60 The Standard Model TheStandard Modelof particle physics is our current best theory of how the Universe is put togethe ...

filled with cleaning fluid surrounded by light detectors. In the rare event that a neutrino interacts with ordinary matter, it e ...

Some physicists believe that it may be possible to show thatall fourforces (including gravity) are aspects of a single underlyin ...

Appendices ...

Appendix A Further Reading General The Feynman Lectures on Physicsby R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, and M.L. Sands (Addison-Wesle ...

Music (Chapter 14) Horns, Strings, and Harmonyby Arthur H. Benade (Dover, 1992). A good survey of the physics of music and musi ...

Radio (Chapter 43) The Science of Radio: With MATLAB and Electronics Workbench Demonstrations(2nd ed.) by Paul J. Nahin (Sprint ...

Modern Physics (Part V) The Road to Realityby Roger Penrose (Knopf, 2004). A recent survey of modern physics by a famous physic ...

Appendix B Greek Alphabet Table B-1. The Greek alphabet. Letter Name A ̨ Alpha Bˇ Beta € Gamma ı Delta E" Epsilon Z Zeta H E ...