| inventor of chemical battery | 475
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W| W boson (elementary particle) | 800
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| unit of electric power | 494
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| interactive simulation | 411
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| wave–particle duality | 773
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| weber (Wb), unit of magnetic flux | 556
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| weightlessness (apparent) | 41
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| interactive simulation | 355
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| | | wire gauges and current capacity | 500
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| done against an electric field | 535
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| done on or by a system | 286
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| experimental measurement of | 260
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| work function, and the photoelectric effect | 650
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X
Y| yield strength (limit) | 247
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| Young’s double slit experiment | 647
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| Yukawa, Hideki—predicted mesons | 790
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Z| Z boson (elementary particle) | 800
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| zeroth law of thermodynamics | 730
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