Simple Nature - Light and Matter

signs for charge is that with this definition the total charge of a closed system is a conserved quantity. Quantization of charg ...

Many important electrical phenomena can only be explained if we understand the mecha- nisms of current flow at the atomic level. ...

know that there is a delay in time before a change in the configuration of mass and charge in one corner of the universe will ma ...

or |VL|= ∣∣ ∣∣LdI dt ∣∣ ∣∣. In the equation for the inductor, the direction of the voltage drop (plus or minus sign) is such tha ...

is related by Φ = 4πkqin to the charge enclosed within the surface. Chapter 11, Electromagnetism, page 673 Relativity implies th ...

Amp`ere’s lawis another way of relating static magnetic fields to the static currents that created them, and it is more easily e ...

to use sophisticated models such as the wave model or the particle model. Instead, we simply describe light according to the pat ...

Refraction: Refraction is a change in direction that occurs when a wave encounters the interface between two media. Together, re ...

Chapter 13, Quantum Physics, page 855 Quantum physics differs from classical physics in many ways, the most dramatic of which is ...

A particle that is bound within a certain region of space is a standing wave in terms of quantum physics. The two equations abov ...

both position and momentum, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle limits the accuracy with which one can know it. The most that c ...

Index aberration, 796 chromatic, 809 absolute zero, 75 absorption, 767, 898 of waves, 374 acceleration, 67 adiabatic, 343 alchem ...

capacitance, 611 spherical, 607 carbon-14 dating, 865 Carnot engine, 321 cathode rays, 17, 488 causality, 398 Celsius (unit), 31 ...

dark matter, 456 Darwin, 18 Darwin, Charles, 856 Davisson C.J., 890 de Broglie Louis, 890 decay exponential, 863 decoherence, 88 ...

kinetic, 76 light, 74 quantization of for bound states, 898 energy density of electric field, 605 of gravitational field, 609 of ...

diffraction, 813 full width at half maximum, 863 full width at half-maximum, 184 fundamental, 386 fundamental theorem of algebra ...

of images, 783 real, 782 virtual, 778 impedance, 628 of an inductor, 631 impedance matching, 635, 739 incoherent light, 813 inde ...

field of, 694 magnetic field defined, 678, 679 energy density of, 610, 691 magnetic monopoles, 683 magnification angular, 784 by ...

orbit circular, 98 order-of-magnitude estimates, 43 oscillations, 115 damped, 176 overdamped electrical, 622 mechanical, 189 ste ...

quark, 696, 949 radar, 870 radiation hormesis, 520 radiation of heat, 113 radio, 870 radio waves, 16 raisin cookie model, 492 ra ...