Main glossary

Anode ... (see _Cathode)

antimatter

Arc (electric)

Astronomy and astrophysics terms

Banking (on corners)

Bernoullie's principle

Beta decay

Binding energy (per nucleon)

Binocular depth perception

Binoculars (Galilean and prismatic)

Black body

Black body (cavity) radiation

Black hole

Blackout

Bloomed lens

Bohr's model of the atom

Buoyancy (force)

Carnot cycle (engine)

Carnot efficiency

Cartenary

Cathode ... see (_Anode)

Cathode ray tube

Caustic (by reflection)

Cavitation

Celsius scale of temperature

Chain reaction (fission)

Chandrasekhar limit

Change of state .-melting

..... -evaporation

......-sublimation

Closed boundary ... see... _Open boundary

Cluster ballooning

Coefficient of linear expansion (a)

Coefficient of performance

Coefficient of restitution

Coefficients of friction

Color ... -Primary color

.. -Secondary color

.. -Color temperature

Color vision

Complimentary colors

Concave

Conductance (electrical)

Conduction (thermal)

Conductivity (thermal)

Conductor (electric)

Conical pendulum

Conservation (of energy)

Conservation (of momentum)

Convection

Conventional current

Convex lenses and mirrors

Core meltdown (Chernobyl)

Coriolis force

Corking

Corona (Diffraction halo)

Corona discharge

Coronal mass ejection (CME)

Cosmic rays

Cosmic microwave background

de Broglie wavelength

Decibel

Declination

Deep water gravity waves

Digital (meters etc.)

Diopter (lens power)

Domains (magnetic)

Drag coefficients (in air)

Dynamic speaker

Earthquake (seismic) wave

Efficiency

Elasticity

Electret

Electric field strength

Electric potential energy

'Electricity'

electromagnetic induction

Electromagnetic spectrum

Electron (charge)

Electron (discovery)

Electron Volt

Electroscope

emf [Electro-Motive-Force] (E)

Emission spectra

Emissivity

EMP (electromagnetic pulse)

Empirical relationship

E ndothermic

Entropy

Epicenter

Equipartition of energy

Equilibrium

Equipotentials

Errors (uncertainties)

Escape velocity

Event horizon

Exothermic

Expansion (thermal coefficient of)

Fahrenheit scale of temperature

FFT (fast Fourier transform)

Field

Fire piston

First-order diffraction grating

Flux (magnetic)

Franck-Hertz demonstration

Generators (electric current)

Geosynchronous orbit

Glass harmonica

Gold leaf

Gravitational field strength

Gravity

Gravity at sea level

Gravity-waves in deep water

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

Helium balloons

Helmholtz coils

Henry

Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Hologram

Hooke's law

Horsepower

How Things Work (Archive)

Induction ...

-electrostatic induction

-electromagnetic induction

Interference ( ... in thin films)

Interference (The two source pattern)

Internal resistance ( ... of a power supply)

Internal waves

Ionization energy (potential)

Kinetic theory of gasses

Laser (Helium-Neon)

LCD (liquid crystal display)

LED (Light emitting diode)

LEP (Light emitting polymer)

Leidenfrost effect

Lens maker's formula

Lenses (non spherical)

Magnetic field strength

Magnetic North

Magnetosphere

Magnifying glass

Magnitude (of a star)

Magnus effect

Mass

Mass defect (nuclear)

Mass spectrometer

Maximum deviation

Maxwell-Boltzman distribution

Meniscus (water)

Millikan's experiment

Minimum deviation

Mirage (Inferior)

Mirage (Superior)

Model

Moment (of a force)

Moment of inertia

Moments of inertia (for uniform extended bodies)

Momentum (angular)

Momentum (linear)

Moseley's law

Motion detector

Mushroom cloud

Near point (of the eye)

Neutrino

Neutron

Neutron (discovery)

Neutron star (pulsar)

Newton's balls (cradle)

Newton's law (postulate) of universal gravitation

Newton's rules (laws)

Normal ...

Nuclear binding energy

Nucleation

Ohm's law (rule)

Olbers' paradox

Open boundary ... see... _C losed boundary

Optics (brief history)

"Physical terms"

Pincushion distortion

Point-contact transistor

Poisson's ratio

polarization

Ponzo (horizon) illusion

Positron

Power (electric)

Power (hydro)

Power (mechanical)

Power (optical)

Pressure

Primary color

Prism (direct vision)

Proton (discovery)

Pulsar (neutron star)

Pyrometer (optical)

Radiation (heat)

Radiation (electromagnetic spectrum)

Radioactive decay

Rainbow (primary)

Rainbow (secondary)

Random error

Rattleback (Celt)

Ray diagram

Rayleigh's criterion (for image resolution)

Reaction force (R or N)

Real image ... see ... _Virtual image

Red shift (cosmological)

Reflectance (normal incidence)

Restitution (coefficient of ...)

-at normal incidence

-at oblique incidence

Reverberation (time)

Root mean square (rms)

Rutherford scattering

Schrödinger's model of the atom

Scintillation counter

Secondary (subtractive) colors

Shallow water gravity waves

Shock wave

Short circuit

Simple harmonic motion

Simple pendulum

Single slit diffraction

Specific heat capacity

speed of sound (in air)

Stereopsis (binocular vision)

Stimulated emission

Stirling engine (cycle)

Stokes' law

String theory

Sublimation (specific heat of)

Symbols (electric circuits)

Systematic error

Telescope (Galilean)

Telescope (refracting)

Telescope (reflecting)

Telescope (gamma ray)

Television (invention of)

Tension

Temperature (scales)

Terminal velocity

Tesla (coil)

Theory

Thermal expansion

_coefficient (a)

_forces

Thermal conductivity (k)

Thermal equilibrium

Thermal imaging

Thermionic emission

Thermochromatic paint

Thermocouple

Thermodynamics

Thermopile

Thin film (interference)

total internal reflection

Triple point (of water)

Units (the MKSA system)

Uranium decay series

UV light

Vector

Vector addition (diagrams)

Velocity

Viscosity

Virtual image ... see ... _Real image

Vortex (torroidal)

Wave/particle duality

Young's double slit experiment