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- Acceleration [r]: The increase of an objects velocity (or speed) per unit time. [e]
- Angular momentum (quantum) [r]: A vector operator of which the three components have well-defined commutation relations. [e]
- Boson [r]: elementary particle with integral spin; composite system consisting of an even number of fermions. [e]
- Communication [r]: The set of interactive processes that create shared meaning. [e]
- Displacement current [r]: Time derivative of the electric displacement D; Maxwell's correction to Ampère's law. [e]
- Electric constant [r]: The permittivity of empty space, equal to 1 in centimeter-gram-second electrostatic units and to 107/4πc2 farads per meter or, numerically, to 8.854 × 10-12 farad per meter in International System units. [e]
- Electric field [r]: force acting on an electric charge—a vector field. [e]
- Electromagnetic radiation [r]: a collection of electromagnetic waves, usually of different wavelengths. [e]
- Electromagnetic spectrum [r]: The range of electromagnetic waves covering all frequencies and wavelengths. [e]
- Electromagnetism [r]: Phenomena and theories regarding electricity and magnetism. [e]
- Enrico Fermi [r]: (1901-1954) Italian born nuclear physicist; designer of the first nuclear reactor. [e]
- Ether (physics) [r]: Medium that can carry electromagnetic waves (obsolete) [e]
- Faraday's law (electromagnetism) [r]: States that a change in magnetic flux generates an electromotive force (EMF). [e]
- Fourier transform [r]: Decomposition to the sum or integral of
functions. [e]
- Gaussian units [r]: A centimeter-gram-second system of units often used in electrodynamics and special relativity. [e]
- Guglielmo Marconi [r]: (1874 - 1937) Italian inventor and pioneer of radio communication. [e]
- Harmonic oscillator (quantum) [r]: system of single mass in parabolic potential treated quantum mechanically. [e]
- Hazard from Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance [r]: Recognition of the risks, and mitigating them, of premature actuation of explosive system by high-energy military electromagnetic emissions [e]
- Helmholtz decomposition [r]: Decomposition of a vector field in a transverse (divergence-free) and a longitudinal (curl-free) component. [e]
- Hertz [r]: The international (SI) unit of frequency, with units of inverse seconds, commonly called cycles per seocond. [e]
- Isotope [r]: An atom of a chemical element with a specific number of neutrons and hence a specific nuclear mass, such as carbon-14 (14C). [e]
- James Clerk Maxwell [r]: (1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistical theory of gases. [e]
- Joule [r]: The SI unit of energy (symbol: J) which is a measure of the capacity to do work or generate heat. [e]
- Lorentz force [r]: Force on an electrically charged particle that moves through a magnetic and an electric field. [e]
- Magnetic field [r]: Vector field H caused by permanent magnets, conduction currents, and displacement currents. [e]
- Maxwell equations [r]: Mathematical equations describing the interrelationship between electric and magnetic fields; dependence of the fields on electric charge- and current- densities. [e]
- Memory of water [r]: A pseudoscientific concept, according to which water molecules can store information on the kind of molecules they had been in contact with. [e]
- Molecule [r]: An aggregate of two or more atoms in a definite arrangement held together by chemical bonds. [e]
- Momentum [r]: mass of a particle times its velocity (a vector). [e]
- Particle in a box [r]: A system in quantum mechanics used to illustrate important features of quantum mechanics, such as quantization of energy levels and the existence of zero-point energy. [e]
- Photon [r]: elementary particle with zero rest mass and unit spin associated with the electromagnetic field. [e]
- Planck's constant [r]: The constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to the frequency of that photon, named sfter Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. [e]
- Polarizability [r]: The ease by which a charge-distribution polarizes; describes the amount of charge separation caused by an electric field. [e]
- Quantum mechanics [r]: An important branch of physics dealing with the behavior of matter and energy at very small scales. [e]
- Relative permittivity [r]: an intrinsic property of a dielectric; it is the proportionality constant between an electric field and an electric displacement in a dielectric. [e]
- Resistor [r]: One of the basic components in electrical circuits. [e]
- Right-hand rule [r]: Rule for the direction of the product vector in a cross product. [e]
- Second [r]: Unit of time; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Signal processing [r]: Extraction of information from complex signals in the presence of noise, generally by conversion of the signals into digital form followed by analysis using various algorithms. [e]
- Special relativity [r]: Theory of space and time, based on the postulates that all the laws of physics are equally valid in all frames of reference moving at a uniform velocity and that the speed of light from a uniformly moving source is always the same, regardless of how fast or slow the source or its observer is moving. [e]
- Speed of light [r]: Is in vacuum c ≡ 299 792 458 m/s (exact). [e]
- Vector field [r]: A vector function on the three-dimensional Euclidean space
. [e]
- Visible light [r]: Electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is detectable by the human eye. [e]
- Volt [r]: SI unit of electrical potential; symbol V; 1 V = 1 W/A = 1 J/C. [e]
- Wave-particle duality [r]: The concept that all matter and energy exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. [e]
