Index
Balmer’s formula         760
baryons         753
battery         477
    and electrical potential energy     264
Bay of Fundy         425
beam
    in structures     243
beats         456
Becquerel, Henri         800
bending         247
Benz, Karl         726
Bermuda Triangle         408
Bernoulli’s equation         678
beta decay         798
    emission of a positron     812
biceps muscle         351
bicycle, as a compound machine         352
bicycle, history of         330
Big Bang theory         16
binding energy         791
binding energy per nucleon         794
binoculars         621
biology         4
biomechanics         351
black
    color in CMYK model     23
black hole
    definition of     223
blackbody         715
blackbody spectrum         716
block and tackle
    as simple machine     340
Blondin, Charles “the Great”         232
blue sky, explanation for         635
blueshift         446
Bohr model of the atom         760
Bohr, Niels         760
boiling point         667
Boltzmann’s constant kB         666
boron, impurity in semiconductors         687
bosons         753
boundaries, fixed and open         420
boundary layer         709
Boyle, Willard—invention of the CCD         652
Boyle’s law         674
Brahe, Tycho         220
breadboard
    understanding connections     474
brittle
    concept of     150
Brown, Robert—and Brownian motion         664
Brownian motion         664
Btu (British thermal unit)         669
    unit of energy     255
buoyancy         677

C
C (capacitance)         536
c (speed of light)         633
cable
    in structures     243
calculator
    EE key for scientific notation     45
calorie         669
    as unit of energy     255
camera
    digital     652
    making a pinhole camera     582
Campagnolo, Tullio         330
candela (Cd), unit of luminous intensity         581
capacitance         536
capacitor         536
    in circuits     538
    parallel plate     537
carbon dating         802
carbon-14         801
careers using physics         24
Carnot cycle         742
Carnot, Sadi—“father of thermodynamics”         741
Cartesian coordinates         177
cathode ray tube (CRT)         567
cause and effect         13
    concept of     132
CCD (charge coupled device)         652
    use in digital cameras     621
celestial sphere         180
cellphones         630
Celsius temperature scale         665
center of curvature         597
center of gravity, see center of mass  
center of mass
    definition of     135
    Earth–Moon system     379
    tipping over     370
centrifugal “force”         210
centripetal acceleration         209
centripetal force         209
Chadwick, James—discovery of the neutron         790
chain reaction         806
chains
    in structures     243
Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)         620
charge
    electric     521
charge coupled device (CCD)         652
Charles, Jacques         674
Charles’s law         674
chart of nuclides         796
chemistry         4
circuit
    breadboard circuits     474
    definition of     473
    diagrams     473
    parallel     489
    series     487
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