Affiliation:
1. University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract
Abstract
The term ‘energy’ was used in physics only from the 1860s. This and other words in thermodynamics (such as entropy) are discussed in this chapter, which also takes a close look at Röntgen’s X-rays and the terminology associated with radioactivity. Section 4.3 is devoted to quantum languages, that is, the words introduced in connection with quantum mechanics, many of them being German–English hybrids such as eigenvalue and eigenstate. Solid-state physics, essentially a branch of applied quantum theory, resulted in several entities called quasi particles and also in a number of acronyms, of which ‘laser’ is probably the best known.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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