Index 255
Volume
Boyle’s Law, 20
buoyancy, 4
gas, 19–20
oceans, effects on weather, 41
Water
air pressure, 17
Watson, James
DNA, 196–7
human genome, 220–21
Weak and strong force
definitions of, 171–72
importance of, 171
origins of discovery, 171–72
Weapons advancement
E = mc2, 112
isotopes, 133
nuclear fission, 178–79
speed of light, 156
Weather. See also Atmosphere; Barometer;
Oceans, effects on weather; Troposphere
air pressure, 17–18
atmospheric layers, 107–8
forecasting, 201–2
ice ages, 69–70
nature of the atmosphere, 202
Wegener, Alfred
continental drift, 138–39
Weight. See also Atomic weight; Matter
air pressure, 17–18
atoms, 60
Boyle’s Law, 20
law of falling objects, 9–10
levers, 3
Wind
atmospheric layers, 107
Wobble effect
existence of planets around other stars,
215–16
Wright, Thomas
galaxies, 36–37
X-ray crystalography
penicillin, 159
X-rays. See also Gamma rays
dark matter, 212
DNA, 196–97
electromagnetic radiation/radio waves, 83–84
genes, function of, 167–68
importance of, 95
infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) light, 55
origins of discovery, 95–96
Yukawa, Hideki
strong force, 171–72
Zonation. See Latitudinal zonation