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* acceleration 
* absorption, quantum 
*adhesion 
*admittance
* air, constituents 
* air friction 
* airbag 
* airfoil 
* airplane in wind 
* albedo 
* algebra 
* Alpha Centauri 
* alpha particle 
* alveoli of lungs 
* AM radio 
* angular acceleration
* angular displacement 
* angular momentum 
* angular momentum, quantized 
* angular velocity 
* Archimedes' principle 
* arctangent problem 
* aspirator 
* astronomical unit 
* asymptotic freedom
* atmosphere, constituents 
* atmospheric pressure 
* atomic clock 
* atomic mass unit 
* Atwood's machine 
* aurora 
* auto hydraulic lift 
* Avogadro's number 
* background radiation, 3K 
* bag model, quarks 
* ballistic pendulum 
* band theory, solids 
*bandwidth 
* Barnard's Star 
* barometer 
* barometric formula 
*baryons 
* baseball curve 
*beat frequency 
*Bequerel (unit) 
* Bernoulli principle 
* beta radioactivity 
* bicycle wheel precession 
*bimetallic strip 
*binding energy, nuclear  
* binomial distribution 
* binomial expansion 
* Biot-Savart law 
* birefringence 
* blackbody radiation 
* black hole 
* boat in current 
* Bohr magneton 
* Bohr model 
* boiling point 
* boiling water reactor 
*Boltzmann distribution 
* Boltzmann's constant 
* bond, chemical 
* boomerang 
*Bose-Einstein condensation 
*Bose-Einstein statistics 
*bosons 
*Boyle's Law 
* brakes, hydraulic 
* Bragg's law 
* Bragg spectrometer 
* breeder reactor 
* brehmsstrahlung radiation 
* bulk modulus 
* bullet drop 
* buoyancy 
* calcite 
* calculus 
* calorie 
* calorimeter 
* capillary action 
* capacitor 
* carbon dating 
* cartesian coordinates 
* Cartesian sign convention 
* cartesian diver 
*carrier wave 
* cavity radiation 
* car crash example 
* Carnot cycle 
* celestial sphere 
* center of mass 
* centrifugal force 
* centripetal force 
* cesium-137 
*Chandrasekhar limit 
*charge, electric 
*Charles' Law 
*charm quark 
*Chernobyl 
* circular motion 
*cobalt-60 
*COBE satellite 
*cochlea 
*coherent light 
*cohesion 
*collisions 
*color force 
*compact disc,audio 
* complex numbers 
* Compton scattering 
* Compton wavelength 
* conduction heat transfer 
* conductor, electric 
* conjugate points, lens 
* conservation laws 
* conservation of angular momentum 
*conservation of energy 
*conservation of momentum 
*conservative force 
*convection 
*Cooper pairs 
*coriolis force 
*correspondence principle 
*cosmic background radiation 
*cosmic rays 
*Coulomb barrier 
*Coulomb's law 
*covalent bond 
*cosmological constant 
*Crab Nebula 
*cross section, nuclear reaction 
*cross section, scattering 
*crossover network 
*crushing Coke can 
*crushing steel drum 
*Curie temperature 
*Curie (unit) 
*curl 
*current, electric 
*current law 
*cyclotron
*cylindrical polar coordinates 
*Cygnus X-1 
*Davisson- Germer experiment 
*DeBroglie wavelength 
*decibels 
*declination 
*del operator 
*density 
*derivative 
*determinant 
*deuterium-tritium fusion 
*dewpoint 
*diamagnetism 
*dielectric 
*differential equations 
*diffraction grating 
*diffraction, sound 
*diffusion 
*digital delay 
*dipole, electric 
*displacement 
*distance relationship 
*divergence 
*doping of semiconductors 
*Doppler effect 
*Doppler effect, relativistic 
*down quark 
*Dulong and Petit, Law of 
*dye laser 
*ecliptic plane 
*Einstein-Bose condensation 
*Einstein equation 
*Einstein velocity addition 
*ear 
*eardrum 
*elastic collision 
*elastic potential energy 
*elasticity 
*electric current 
*electric field 
*electric guitar 
*electric potential energy 
*electric shock 
*electrolysis 
*electromagnet 
*electromagnetic force 
*electromagnetic spectrum 
*electromagnetic waves 
*electron 
*electron affinity 
*electron capture 
*electron spin 
*electron volt 
*electronegativity 
*electroweak unification 
* emission, quantum 
*emission, stimulated 
*emphysema 
*energy 
*enthalpy 
*entropy 
*equilibrium 
*equinox 
*equipartition of energy 
*escape velocity 
*Euler relationship 
*evaporation 
*event horizon 
*exchange forces 
*exponents 
*Fabrey-Perot 
*Faraday's law 
* fast breeder reactor 
*Fermat's principle 
*Fermi-Dirac statistics 
*Fermi level 
*fermions 
*ferromagnetism 
*Feynman diagrams 
*Fick's Law 
*first law of thermodynamics 
*fluids 
*fluid pressure 
*fluorescent light 
*flux, electric 
*flux, magnetic 
*FM radio 
*focal length 
*force 
*forces, fundamental 
*Fourier analysis 
*Fourier series 
*Franck-Hertz experiment 
*free body diagram 
*freefall 
*Fresnel lens 
*friction 
*friction, rolling 
*Friedmann equation 
*fuel cell 
*fundamental forces 
*g-factor, electron spin 
*galvanometer 
*gamma radioactivity 
*gamma-rays 
*Galilean transformation 
*gas constant 
*Gauge pressure 
* Gauss (Unit) 
* Gauss' law 
* Gaussian distribution 
* Gaussian surface 
*geometry 
*Gibbs free energy 
*Global Positioning System 
*global warming 
*gluon 
*gradient 
*Graham's Law 
*grand unification 
*gravitational lens 
*gravitational potential energy 
*gravity 
*gravity-assist orbit 
*Gray (unit) 
*greenhouse effect 
*Gullstrand's equation 
*gyroscope 
*hadrons 
*half-life 
*Hall effect 
*Hall probe 
*harmonic oscillator 
*harmonic oscillator, quantum 
*heat 
*heat of fusion 
*heat of vaporization 
*heat transfer 
*helium, liquid 
*helium-neon laser 
*Helmholtz free energy 
*Henry's Law 
*Hermite polynomials 
*Hertzsprung-Russell diagram 
*Heterodyne principle
*Hooke's Law 
*holography 
* Hubble constant 
* Hubble law 
* hydraulic brakes 
*hydraulic press 
*hydrogen radial probability 
*hydrogen spectrum 
*hyperbolic functions 
*hypercharge 
*hysteresis 
* Iceland spar 
*ideal gas law 
*image formation 
*images, real 
*images, virtual 
*impedance 
*impulse of force 
*index of refraction 
*inductance 
*inelastic collision 
*infrared 
* insulator, electric 
*internal energy 
*inertia 
*integral 
*intensity, sound 
*interference, sound 
*intermediate vector bosons 
*internal energy 
*inverse square law 
* iodine-131 
*ionic bond 
*ionization energy 
*ionizing radiation 
*IRAS satellite 
*isolated system 
*isotopes 
*isospin 
*Josephson junction 
*Jupiter effect 
*Kepler's laws 
*kinetic energy 
*kinetic energy, rotational 
*kinetic theory 
*Lamb shift 
*laminar flow 
*Lande' g-factor 
*LaPlace's equation 
*LaPlace's law 
*LaPlacian 
*laser 
*Law of cosines 
*Law of sines 
*lens equation 
*lenses 
*Lenz's law 
*lepton 
*lever arm 
*lightning 
*light, speed of 
*limits in calculus 
*line equation 
*linear algebra 
*liquid helium 
*logarithms 
*longitudinal waves 
*Lorentz force law 
*Lorentz transformation 
*loudness 
*loudspeaker 
* lungs, alveoli of  
*Madgeburg hemispheres 
*magnetic confinement 
*magnetic field 
*magnetic force 
*magnetic moment 
*magneto- hydrodynamics
*magnetostrictive effect
*magnitude of star 
*main sequence of stars 
*manometer 
*Mariner spacecraft 
*mass 
*mass energy 
*mass, reduced  
*mass spectrometer 
*Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics 
*Maxwell distribution 
*mean free path 
*Meissner effect 
*mercury barometer 
*mesons 
*Michelson- Morley experiment 
*microphone 
*microwaves 
*missing fundamental effect 
*mole 
*moment of inertia 
*momentum 
*Moseley plot 
*Mossbauer effect 
*motor 
*motor, induction 
*Mpemba effect 
*muon 
*n-type semiconductor 
*neutrino 
*Newton's laws 
*neutron 
*neutron degeneracy 
*neutron star 
*Newton's first law 
*Newton's second law 
*Newton's second law for rotation 
*Newton's third law 
*Norton's theorem
*nuclear binding energy 
*Ohm's law 
*orbit, circular 
*orbit concepts 
*orbit velocity 
*orbital angular momentum 
*orbital quantum number 
*organ of Corti 
*oscillator, simple harmonic  
*oscillator, damped  
*oscillator, driven  
*osmosis  
*ossicles  
*overtones  
*p-n junction 
*p-type semiconductor 
*pair production  
*parallel axis theorem 
*parallax 
*paramagnetism 
*parity 
*parsec 
*Pascal's principle 
*Pauli exclusion principle 
*pendulum 
*pendulum, physical 
*periodic motion 
*permeability 
*permittivity 
*perpendicular axis theorem 
*PET scan 
*phase change 
*phase, AC circuits
*phasor diagram
*phon 
*photoelectric effect 
*photon  
*photon energy 
*photon sphere 
*piezoelectric effect 
*pink noise 
*pion 
*pitch 
*place theory 
*Planck radiation formula 
*Planck's hypothesis 
*Poiseuille's law 
* Poisson distribution 
*Poisson's equation 
* Population I & II stars 
*position 
*positron 
*positron annihilation 
*Potential energy 
*Potential energy, gravity 
*power 
*power, electric 
*power factor 
*Poynting vector 
*precession 
*pressure 
*pressure of fluid 
* pressurized water reactor 
*primary colors 
*principal axes 
*principal quantum number 
*principle of equivalence 
*proton 
*proton-proton fusion 
*pulsar 
*Psi/J particle 
*quadratic formula 
*quality, sound 
*quantum energy 
*quantum numbers, atomic 
*quantum statistics 
* quarks 
*quark confinement 
*quarter-wave plate 
*quasar 
*rad (unit) 
*radar, police 
*radiation effects 
*radiation heat transfer 
*radiation risk 
* radio, AM  
* radio, FM 
*radioactive half-life 
*radioactive dating 
*radioactivity 
*radon 
*Rayleigh criterion 
*Rayleigh-Jeans law 
*right hand rule, torque 
*red shift 
*red giant star 
*red supergiant star 
*reduced mass 
*reflection, sound 
*refraction, light 
*refraction, sound 
*relative humidity 
*relativity 
*relativistic energy 
*relativistic mass 
*relativistic momentum 
*rem (unit) 
*resonance, electric
*resonant frequency 
*resistance 
*resistivity 
*respiration 
*rest mass energy 
*reverberation 
*reverberation time 
*Reynold's number 
*right ascension 
*right hand rule 
*right triangle relationships 
*Rijke tube 
*rms current
*rms voltage
*rocket 
*Roentgen (unit) 
*rotation equations 
*rotational motion 
*rotational inertia 
*Rutherford scattering 
*Sabine formula 
*Savery engine 
*scalar product 
*scanning tunneling microscope 
*Schrodinger equation 
*Schwarzschild radius 
*seatbelt function 
*selection rules 
*semicircular canals 
*semiconductor 
*Seyfert galaxies 
*shock, electric 
*Sievert (unit) 
*sideband 
*simple harmonic motion 
*sinusoidal waves 
*slingshot orbit 
*smoking and the lungs 
*sodium doublet 
*SOHO satellite 
*solar wind 
*solenoid 
*solstice 
*sound intensity 
*sound pressure 
*sound speed 
*specific heat 
*speed of light 
*speed of sound 
*spherical polar coordinates 
*spectroscopic notation 
*spin, electron  
*spin g-factor  
*spin-orbit interaction  
*spring potential energy 
*spontaneous symmetry breaking 
*SQUID magnetometer 
*standing waves 
*star spectral types 
*state variables 
*Stefan- Boltzmann law 
*stimulated emission 
*strange quark 
*string instruments 
*string vibration 
*strong force 
* strontium-90 
*subjective tone 
*Sun 
*superconductivity 
*superfluid 
*supernova 
*surface tension 
*surfactant fluid 
*synchrotron radiation 
*syncom satellite 
*tape recording 
*tau lepton 
*telephone tones 
*temperature 
*temperature scales 
*terminal velocity 
* Tesla (Unit) 
*thermal energy 
*thermodynamics, first law 
*thermodynamics, second law 
*thermodynamics, zeroth law 
*Thevenin's theorem
*tides 
*time dilation 
*time's arrow 
*timpani 
*top quark 
*torque 
*torque vector 
*top precession 
*totalitarian principle 
*trajectories 
*transparency of a medium 
*transverse waves 
*trig functions 
*trigonometry 
*turbulent flow 
*ultrasonic sound 
*ultraviolet 
*uncertainty principle 
*unit vectors 
*units 
*up quark 
*upsilon particle 
*uranium-235 fission 
*valence electrons 
*van Allen Belts 
*van de Graaff generator 
*vapor pressure 
*vector bosons 
*vector sum 
*vector product 
*vectors 
*velocity 
*velocity, relative 
*velocity, terminal 
*vectors, scalar product of 
*vergence 
*viscosity 
*viscous resistance 
*visible light 
*voltage 
*voltage divider
*voltage law 
*W particle 
*wall tension 
*wavefunction 
*waves, electromagnetic  
*waves on ocean 
*weak interaction 
*weight 
*weightlessness 
*white dwarf star 
*white noise 
*Wien displacement law 
*Wollaston prism 
*work 
*work-energy principle 
*x-rays 
* Young's modulus 
*Z particle 
* Zeeman effect