Vacuum fluctuations, 320
Valence, 276
Valence band, 358
van der Waals forces, 345, 346, 349
van der Waals, Johannes, 345
Velocity addition, 43, 44
Vibration-rotation band, 291
Vibration-rotation spectra, 291
Vibrational energy levels, 285 – 291
Vibrational quantum number, 287
Vibrational spectra, 288
Vibrational states, 282
Video camera, 65
Virtual photon, 415
Volume energy, 404
von Laue, Max, 69, 132
von Weizäcker, C.F., 403, 407
Vulcan, 35W, 494
Wave equation, 164 – 166
Wave formula, 98, 99
Wave function, 95, 96, 162, 163. See also
Quantum mechanics
Wave group, 99
Wave number, 99
Wave number of de Broglie waves, 101
Wave packet, 99
Wave propagation, 98
Wave properties of particles, 92 – 118
angular frequency of de Broglie waves, 101
Davisson-Germer experiment, 104, 105
de Broglie waves, 93 – 95
energy and time, 115, 116
general formula for waves, 96 – 99
particle diffraction, 104, 105
particle in a box, 106, 107
phase/group velocities, 99 – 103
uncertainty principles, 108 – 116
wave number of de Broglie waves, 101
waves of probability, 95, 96542 Index
Wave theory of light, 67, 68
Wave-particle duality. SeeParticle properties of
waves, Wave properties of particles
Weak interaction, 402, 439, 475
Weakly interacting massive particles
(WIMPs), 503
Weidemann-Franz law, 354
Weinberg, Steven, 494, 495
Well-behaved wave function, 163
What Is Life?(Schrödinger), 167
Wheeler, J.A., 33
White dwarf, 88, 328, 329
Wieman, Carl, 309
Wien’s displacement law, 58, 316
Wigner, Eugene, 161
Wilson, Robert, 500
WIMPs, 503
Work function, 64, 65
Work hardening, 338X-ray, 68 – 72, 423
X-ray diffraction, 72 – 75
X-ray production, 71, 72
X-ray spectra, 254 – 258
X-ray spectrometer, 74
X-ray tube, 69
X-ray wavelengths, 72 – 75Young, Thomas, 56, 57
Yukawa, Hideki, 413Z, 494
Zeeman effect, 200, 223 – 226, 229
Zeeman, Pieter, 41, 225
Zener breakdown, 367
Zener diode, 366, 367
Zero-point energy, 118, 190, 323
Zweig, George, 489
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