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Doublet, 254
Down, 489, 490
Drain, 368
Drift velocity, 350 – 352
Drude, Paul, 354
Drude-Lorentz model, 354
D-T reactions, 464
Duane-Hunt formula, 71
Ductility, 338
Duke, Charles M., Jr., 430
Dulong-Petit law, 321
Dye lasers, 151
Dying stars, 327 – 331

Earth’s radioactivity, 422
Eddington, Arthur, 329
Edge dislocation, 338
Effective mass, 374
Eigenfunction, 175
Eigenvalue, 175, 176
Eightfold way, 487 – 489
Einstein, Albert, 2, 9, 36, 63, 64, 68, 132, 235,
298, 307, 313, 318, 322
Einstein specific heat formula, 322
Elastic collision, 22, 23, 145
Electric potential energy, 201
Electromagnetic interactions, 475
Electromagnetic radiation, 55
Electromagnetic (em) waves, 52 – 57
Electron affinity, 339
Electron capture, 399, 421, 439
Electron configurations of elements, 242, 243
Electron magnetic moment, 223
Electron microscope, 102
Electron orbits, 124 – 127
Electron sharing, 269, 270
Electron shielding, 241
Electron specific heat, 327
Electron spin, 229 – 231
Electron-energy distribution, 325 – 237
Electronic excitation, 292
Electronic spectra of molecules, 291 – 293
Electronic transitions, 291
Electron-positron pair formation, 80
Electron-positron pair production, 478
Electrons, 53
Electronvolt (eV), 32
Electroweak interaction, 476
Elementary particles, 474 – 505
baryons, 481, 482
dark matter, 503
eightfold way, 487 – 489
field bosons, 494 – 496
fundamental interactions, 475 – 477
future of the universe, 501 – 504
GUT, 497
hadrons, 481 – 484
Higgs boson, 496
history of the universe, 498 – 501
leptons, 477 – 481

Cooper pair, 381 – 385
Cornell, Eric, 309
Correspondence principle, 138 – 140
Coulomb energy, 340, 404, 405
Covalent bonds, 267, 269
Covalent crystals, 342 – 344, 349
Cowan, C.L., 440
Crab nebula, 296, 331
Crick, James Francis, 167
Critical, 454
Critical density, 502, 503
Critical temperature, 376
Cross section, 155, 441 – 446
Crystal, 72
Crystal defects, 337, 338
Crystalline solids, 336 – 338
Crystallites, 336
CsCl, 339
Curie (Ci), 422
Curie, Irene, 389
Curie, Marie Sklodowska, 431
Curie, Pierre, 431
Cygnus X-1, 89

Dark matter, 503
Davis, Raymond, 480
Davisson, Clinton, 104
Davisson-Germer experiment, 104, 105
dc Josephson effect, 384
D-D reactions, 463
de Broglie group velocity, 103
de Broglie, Louis, 93
de Broglie phase velocity, 97, 103
de Broglie wavelength, 93
de Broglie wavelengths of trapped particle, 106
de Broglie waves, 93 – 95
Debye, Peter, 322
Debye specific heat theory, 322
Decay constant, 424, 435
Degenerate, 325
Degrees of freedom, 303
Delocalized, 280
Depletion region, 364, 365
Destructive interference, 56, 57
Deuterium, 141, 388, 399, 400
Diamagnetic, 377
Diamond, 343, 344, 358, 359
Diffraction, 56
particle, 104, 105
x-ray, 72 – 75
Dirac, Paul, 161, 230, 235, 307, 310, 455, 477, 478
Disintegration energy, 433
Dislocation, 338
Dispersion, 99
DNA, 347
Donor levels, 360
Doppler effect, 10 – 15
Doppler effect in light, 11 – 13
Doppler effect in sound, 11
Double-slit experiment, 169, 170

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