You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from previous chapters:
- parallax
- occult
- astronomical unit
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini
- Jean Richer
- Guillaume Le Gentil
- egress
- Ole Christensen Rømer
- Christiaan Huygens
- Hippolyte Fizeau
- Henry Cavendish
- Reverend John Michell
- system
- closed system
- conserved quantity
- linear momentum
- conservation of linear momentum
- angular momentum
- torque
- conservation of angular momentum
- energy
- conservation of energy
- work
- James Prescott Joule
- potential energy
- kinetic energy
- mechanical energy
- escape speed
- Chicxulub crater
- interference
- wavelength
- amplitude
- frequency
- hertz
- constructive interference
- destructive interference
- Thomas Young
- Young double-slit experiment
- spectrum
- electricity
- bar magnet
- magnetism
- positive
- negative
- Charles-Augustine de Coulomb
- Coulomb’s law
- Hans Christian Ørsted
- Michael Faraday
- James Clerk Maxwell
- electric and magnetic fields
- electromagnetic wave
- Heinrich Hertz
- polarization
- polarized
- unpolarized
- electromagnetic spectrum
- electromagnetic radiation
- gamma rays
- x-rays
- ultraviolet light
- visible light
- infrared light
- microwaves
- radio waves
- Josiah Wedgewood
- absolute zero
- temperature
- Fahrenheit temperature scale
- Celsius temperature scale
- Kelvin temperature scale
- blackbody
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
- blackbody radiation
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- continuous spectrum
- blackbody spectrum
- Wilhelm Wien
- Wien’s blackbody color law
- power
- watt
- joule
- flux
- brightness
- Jožef Stefan
- luminosity
- Stefan-Boltzmann luminosity law
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- inverse square law of light
- inverse square law of Newtonian gravity
- heat
- Sir Benjamin Thomson (Count Rumford)
- fluid
- thermodynamics
- statistical mechanics
- calorie
- convection
- conduction
- radiation
- entropy
- Boltzmann’s equation
- logarithm
- the four laws of thermodynamics
- arrow of time