Read For the Love of Physics Online
Authors: Walter Lewin
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For the Love of Physics (46 page)
classroom and home demonstrations:
of air column,
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–22
of air flow,
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–75
of air pressure,
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–60,
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–65,
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of artificial gravity,
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–58
of building a motor,
158
–61
of conservation of energy,
168
–69,
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–74
creating fogbows,
96
–97
of drinking with a straw,
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–77
of electrical potential,
140
–41
of electromagnetism,
156
of energy conversion,
170
of Fiestaware,
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–84
of glassbows,
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–102
of high-frequency sound,
106
of homemade rainbow,
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–88,
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of hydrostatic pressure,
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–70
of liquid magnet,
151
of magnetic levitation,
161
–62,
164
of making a battery,
170
of measurement,
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–24
of pendulums,
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–55
of shattered wineglass,
118
of sounding board,
114
of sparks,
139
–40
of static electricity,
127
–28,
132
–36
of weightlessness,
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–48
cobalt,
151
color (timbre),
112
comets,
10
Cominsky, Lynn,
255
commutator,
159
co-moving distance,
35
compact fluorescent lights (CFL),
186
Compact Stellar X-Ray Sources
(Lewin, et al., eds.),
259
complete field theory,
165
conductors, conduction,
128
–29,
131
–32,
136
skin effect and,
145
–46
Conner, J. P.,
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conservation of electric charge, law of,
128
constructive interference,
95
Copernicus, Nicolaus,
189
Córdova, France,
259
core-collapse supernova,
217
–20,
226
black hole formed in,
223
burning cycles of,
218
–19
Chandra limit in,
219
elements created in,
223
energy emitted by,
221
iron core in,
219
neutrinos in,
221
–22
neutron star in,
217
,
219
–21
protons in,
220
–21
remnant of,
221
corona discharge,
145
in X-ray ballooning,
206
–7
cosmic distance ladder,
34
cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation,
9
,
199
cosmic rays,
230
Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de,
133
coulomb (unit of charge),
133
Coulomb’s law,
133
–34
Crab Nebula (M-1),
192
,
196
–97,
221
,
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changing shape of,
222
Moon in occultation of,
197
–98
pulsar in,
224
–25
crux (constellation),
213
Crux X-1 (X-ray source),
213
Curie, Marie,
268
Curie temperature,
152
cyclotron,
7
Cyg X-1 (X-ray source),
196
,
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–13,
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,
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–42,
245
Cyg X-2 (X-ray source),
196
Cyngus (constellation),
196
Dalibard, Thomas-François,
146
Dalton, John,
174
Darwin, Charles,
34
decibels,
105
defibrillators,
142
Degas, Edgar,
267
degenerate neutron matter,
220
Dekkers, Daniel,
265
Delft University of Technology,
1
,
10
–11
Democritus,
189
Derain, André,
268
destructive interference,
95
diamagnetic materials,
151
didgeredoo (musical instrument),
120
diffraction (interference),
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–96
dipoles,
165
–66
Dirac, Paul,
269
direct current (DC),
158
Doppler effect,
232
–33
in binary systems,
237
,
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–39
black holes and,
232
–33
stellar distances and,
34
–35
X-ray binaries and,
237
–39,
241
,
243
double-dutch (game),
110
Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment
(Schiffer),
146
driven oscillator,
110
Duchamp, Marcel,
268
dynamo effect,
153
Earth,
28
,
49
,
50
–51,
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,
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,
227
,
236
,
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,
279
age of,
36
average radius of,
283
calculating distances to Moon from,
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–83
calculating mass of,
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–83,
284
core of,
152
–53,
183
density of,
284
gravitational acceleration and,
41
–42
magnetic field of,
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,
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–53,
154
mass of,
45
neutrino strikes on,
222
Sun’s distance from,
181
,
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–82
surface air pressure of,
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–64,
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–67
thunderstorms on,
143
tidal forces on,
233
voltage of,
137
e-Astronomer (blog),
195
ecliptic plane,
29
Eco, Umberto,
266
eddy currents,
161
Einstein, Albert,
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,
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,
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,
38
,
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,
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,
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,
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–27,
228
,
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,
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–70
in ancient Greece,
126
in atoms,
130
attraction and repulsion and,
128
,
132
–36
chemical reactions and,
129
–30
conductors and conduction in,
128
–29,
132
,
136
corona discharge and,
145
,
206
–7
Coulomb’s law and,
133
–34
early scientific study of,
126
as fluid,
128
Franklin’s experiments in,
128
–29,
146
–47
Gauss’s law for,
165
healing stimulation and,
142
in human body,
129
induction process and,
133
–35