Index

Page numbers in boldface are illustrations. Entries in boldface are glossary terms.

aether, 11–13, 15, 15

atom, 5, 16–19, 30–34, 31, 36, 38, 40, 42–49, 47, 51–52

carbon, 47

electromagnetic effects within, 40

helium, 49

hydrogen, 30, 31, 32, 34, 38

particle, 46

planetary model of, 33

radioactive, 49

vibrating, 18

Bohr, Niels Henrik, 31–36, 31–32, 35, 38

boson, 14–15, 15

Compton, Arthur Holly, 28, 49

Compton Effect, 28

electrodynamics, 39, 40

electromagnetic energy, 23, 29, 42

electromagnetic force, 15, 42

electromagnetic spectrum, 48

electromagnetic wave, 12, 13, 15–18, 15, 21, 31, 44

electromagnetism, 12, 36, 38, 41

electron, 5, 23, 25, 27–28, 28, 30–33, 36, 36, 38, 41–45, 49, 51–52

emission, 41, 44, 46, 51–52

energy level, 31–32, 34–35, 35, 38, 44–46, 49, 51, 54

Higgs, Peter, 14–15, 15

Huygens, Christiaan, 4, 6, 9–10, 10, 13

interference, 11, 11

laser, 43, 51–52, 51

light-emitting diode (LED), 54

light quantum, 21, 23, 23

Maxwell, James Clerk, 12–13, 12, 15, 16, 18

Maxwell’s equations, 12–13, 21, 29, 31, 33, 40, 41, 42

molecule, 44

Newton, Sir Isaac, 4, 6–7, 7–9, 10, 13, 21, 32, 37

corpuscular theory of light, 13

Laws of motion, 37

nucleus, 5, 31–32, 38, 48–49

photoelectric effect, 5, 24, 25–26, 27–29

Planck, Max, 4–5, 16, 17–24, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29–30, 33, 35–36, 39

quantum, 4, 21, 22–23, 23, 25, 27, 33, 38, 43

quantum electrodynamics (QED), 39, 40, 41

quantum energy, 21, 22, 49

quantum mechanics, 26, 37–40, 39, 44

quantum wave function, 41

reflect, 8, 47

refraction, 7–10

Rutherford, Ernest, 30–31, 48, 49

Schrödinger, Erwin, 36–38, 37, 39, 41

Schrödinger’s Equation, 37

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 33, 38

spectrum, 4, 8, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 27, 31–32, 32–33, 35

absorption, 32

emission, 32

hydrogen, 34, 35, 38

line, 31, 44

regions of, 54

See also electromagnetic spectrum

Thomson, J. J., 30

uncertainty principle, 40, 42

wave function, 37–38, 37, 41