Index
Aberration, 200
chromatic, 200
spherical, 200
Accidentals, 82
Accommodation, 204
Acoustics, 12
Active optics, 193
Aerial, 181
Agonic line, 147
Alexander’s dark band, 238
Alnico, 157
Alternating current (AC), 173
AM radio, 178
Amateur radio, 132
Amber, 90
American Radio Relay League (ARRL), 133
American Wire Gauge (AWG), 107, 109
Ammeter, 120
Amp`ere’s law, 159, 161
Ampere, 16
Amplitude, 39, 55, 58
Amplitude modulation, 178
Analyzer, 226
Angular frequency, 39, 58
Antenna, 181
Antimatter, 177, 252
Antineutron, 252, 308
Antinode, 66
Antiproton, 252, 308
Arduino, 131
Arithmetic-geometric mean, 296
Astigmatism, 200
Astronomical unit, 280
Astrophysics, 12
Atomic mass unit (amu), 17
Atomic physics, 12
Aurora, 149
Auroral oval, 153
Baryon, 251, 308
Base units, 14
Battery, 101
internal resistance, 102, 108
parallel, 102
series, 101
Bel, 79
Bessel function, 69
Beta decay, 252
Bifocal lenses, 204
Big Bang, 78
Binary prefixes, 22
Binoculars, 207
Biophysics, 12
Biot-Savart law, 139, 159, 164
Birefringence, 227
Biv, Roy G., 177, 228
Blueshift, 78
Boson, 308
Bow shock, 151
Brewster’s law, 227
Bulk modulus, 59, 71C major scale, 81, 83
Calcite, 204, 227
Calculus, 25
differential, 26
fundamental theorem of, 30
integral, 28
Camera, 206
pinhole, 206
Candela, 16, 212
Capacitance, 122
Capacitor, 122
Capillary, 248
Cat’s whisker, 183
Cauchy dispersion formula, 224
Cellular telephone, 179
Center of curvature, 189
Chemical physics, 12
Chromatic aberration, 200, 224
Chromatic scale, 81
Chromaticity diagram, 231