Containing over 1,300 glossary entries, this title offers students a view of a vital branch of science. It contains sections that include: 150 advances in physics; a list of Nobel Prize winners in physics, as well as their biographical information; the names, addresses and telephone numbers of 30 associations in the field of physics; and more.
Among the topics covered are:
- Acceleration
- Ballistics
- Boiling Point
- Catalyst
- Data Communications
- Electrolyte
- Frequency Modulation
- Gamma Radiation
- Inertia
- Prism
- Relative Atomic Mass
- Transverse Waves
- White Dwarf
- X-rays.
Biographies include:
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Pierre Curie
- Sir James Dewar
- Christian Doppler
- Albert Einstein
- Euclid
- Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
- Hans William Geiger
- Stephen Hawking
- Pythagoras.
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