Physicists and Their Discoveries Flashcards

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Anderson

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Positron

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Archimedes

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Archimedes’ Principle

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Becquerel

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Radioactivity

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Boyle

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Boyle’s Law

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Cockroft & Walton

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Transmutation

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Coulomb

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Forces between charges

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Dirac

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Antimatter

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Einstein

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Photoelectric Law; E = mc²

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Faraday

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Electromagnetic induction

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Hahn

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Nuclear fission

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Hooke

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Hooke’s Law

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Joule

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Heating effect of current

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13
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Lenz

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Induced current

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14
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Millikan

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Charge on the electron

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15
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Newton

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Laws of Motion

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Ohm

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V = IR

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Pauli

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Neutrino

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Rontgen

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X-rays

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Rutherford

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Radius of nucleus

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Snell

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Law of Refraction

21
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Stoney

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Electron

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Young

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Wave nature of light