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You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from previous chapters:
- Max Planck
- Planck’s energy equation
- quanta
- Planck’s constant
- modern physics
- Albert Einstein
- field
- Zürich Polytechnic
- Mileva Marić
- Elsa Löwenthal
- 1905
- annus mirabilis
- quantum mechanics
- general theory of relativity
- 1915
- advance of perihelion of Mercury
- spacetime
- Leó Szilárd
- Edward Teller
- ether
- Michelson-Morley experiment
- absolute space (Newtonian physics)
- absolute time (Newtonian physics)
- special relativity
- postulates
- time dilation
- length contraction
- Doppler effect
- redshift
- blueshift
- Doppler effect equation
- photon
- wave-particle duality
- electron volt
- charge-coupled device
- Rutherford scattering experiment
- Johann Balmer
- Balmer series of hydrogen
- Niels Bohr
- radian
- energy level
- ground state
- Louis de Broglie
- de Broglie wavelength
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Schrödinger’s equation
- Werner Heisenberg
- quantum numbers
- principal quantum number
- orbital angular momentum quantum number
- magnetic quantum number
- spin quantum number
- orbitals
- Paul Dirac
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Pauli exclusion principle
- periodic table of the elements
- probabilities
- Slovay conference
- Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
- Schrödinger’s cat
- proton
- neutron
- isotope
- atomic number
- atomic mass
- chemical symbol
- nucleon
- conservation of electric charge
- conservation of nucleon number
- neutrino
- quarks
- gluons
- elementary particle physics