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Physicscscscs by Jm

Emilie Du Chatelet

c^2

Emilie Du Chatelet

Proved Newton is wrong

1905

Fruitful year of Physics

Otto Han

Adding Neutron to Uranium

Robert Frisch

Help In nuclear

Meitner

Discovered nuclear fission

Davey

Against Faraday

Antoine Lavoisier

No loss

Celeritas

c in e\=mc^2

James Maxwell

Visualize light as a product of electromagnetism

Leibniz

Discovered there is flaw in idea of Newton

Otto Han

Pressured by Nazi

Empedocles

produced by the eye and that interact with light

Pythagoras

caused by the visual rays emanating from eye

Democritus

Every object contains numerous eidola or replicas and continuously emit replica

Epicurus

Light is emitted by sources other than eye

Euclid

Presented law of relection

Euclid

Questions the origin of the light within the eye

Lucretius

Light is made up of the particles of the sun

Dharmakirti

Theorize that light stream

Ibn Sahal

Discovered Snell's Law

Thomas Harriot

Discovered but not Published

Willbrord Snellius

Derives but not published

Willbrord Snellius

posthumously (after death)

Descartes

Light as pressure

Descartes

Accused of plagiarizing Snellius

Ptolemy

1st Quantitative study of refraction as it passes transparent medium

Newton

Corpuscular Theory

Newton/ Corpuscular Theory

Light is made up of small discrete particles called "corpuscles"

Corpuscles

Little particles

Ole Komer

Calculate the speed light using the timing of the eclipses of Jupiter's moon

Ole Komer

Found out that light has speed

Roger Bacon

Propagation of light through simple lenses

Lippershey

Invented Telescope

Christian Huygens

Wave theory of light

Christian Huygens

Introduces ether, a medium that light is thought to travel

Ether

A medium that light is thought to travel

Robert Hooke

Discovered diffraction effect

Supported Huygens

Thomas Young

Double slit experiment

Supported Huygens

Thomas Young

Provide apparent proof to have nature of light

Augustine-Jean Fresnel

Light can only be polarized if it is a transverse wave

Supported Huygens

Michael Faraday

Discovers plane of polarization of light can be rotated by magnetic field (B)

Michael Faraday (1821)

Electromagnetic induction

Michael Faraday

Father of electromagnetism

Simeon Denis Poisson

Thermodynamics

Supported Huygens

James Maxwell

Light as electromagnetic wave

Michelson and Morley

Attempts to detect that light travels through and fail.

Michelson and Morley

Use to prove general relativity

Planck

Blackbody radiation

Planck

Resolves the ultraviolet catastrophobe by mathematically by treating light emitted by a blackbody as a discrete particles called "quanta"

Quanta

Blackbody as a discrete particles

Einstein

photoelectric effect

Louis De Broglie

Duality of Light

Werner Heisenberg

Uncertainty principle

Erwin Schrodinger

Quantum Mechanics

Hans Christian Oersted (1820)

Showed how current carrying wave behaves like magnet

Andre-Marie Ampere

Demonstrated the magnetic effect based in the direction of the current

Heinrich Hertz (1879)

Showed experimental evidence of EM Waves and their link to light

Radio Waves

Predicted by Sir James Maxwell (1865)

Radio Waves

Discovered by Heinrich Hertz(1887)

Radio Waves

Application were credited to Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi

Microwaves

Application: Bluetooth and Monitoring heartbeat

Infrared Radiation

Sir Frederick William Hershel in 1800

Visible Light

Colors were first realized by Sir Isaac Newton

Ultraviolet

Johann Wilhelm Ritter

X-ray

Wilhem Konrad Roentgen