The Physics of War (47 page)

p-type semiconductor,
290

pulley,
41

Punic Wars,
47

pusher design,
170

Rabi, Isidor,
255

radar,
204
,
227

radar jamming,
229

radar system,
206
,
207

radian,
40
,
134

radiation channel,
278
,
279

radioactive decay,
247

radio transmission,
201

radio waves,
200

Ramses II,
19
,
20
,
21

Randall, John,
208
,
228

Reaper drone,
292

recoil,
154
,
155

recoil of cannon,
66

recurved bow,
43

Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen),
188

reflecting telescope,
203

refracting telescope,
203

relay (telegraph),
140

resistance,
125

Richthofen, Manfred von,
188

Rickenbacker, Eddie,
189

rifling of gun barrel,
161
,
162

right-hand rule,
126
,
127

Ritter, Johann,
199

Robins, Benjamin,
110
–
12

Robinson, John,
108

robots,
295

roll axis,
179

Roman Empire,
47
,
48

Romans,
32
,
47

Röntgen, Wilhelm,
13
,
199
,
202

Roosevelt, President (Franklin D.),
255
,
256
,
259
,
261
,
267

Rosen, Leon,
252
,
253

rotational inertia,
134

Roxburgh Castle,
66

Royal Society,
115

rudder,
178

Rumford, Count,
122

Sachs, Alexander,
256

Sagres,
90

saltpeter,
60
,
61
,
117

satellites,
291

Schawlow, Arthur,
287

Schwartz, Berthold,
62

screw,
41

screw propeller,
144

scutum,
48

Seaborg, Glenn,
259

Selleck, Tom,
136

semiconductor,
288
,
289

Serber, Robert,
263

Sforza, Ludovico,
70
,
73
,
77

Sharps, Christian,
136

Sharps rifle,
136

sheer drag,
56

Shokaku
,
221

Shockley, William,
288
,
291

siege towers,
27
,
28

six shooter,
132

skin friction,
176

Smeaton, John,
166

Smeaton's coefficient,
166
,
170

Smith, Francis,
144

Socrates,
29
,
39

solenoid,
126

solid-state physics,
288

Solomon Islands,
232

Somme, Battle of,
194

sonar,
211
,
216
,
217

sonic boom,
155
,
156

sonobuoy,
217

sound suppressor,
155

specific heat,
123

Spencer, Christopher,
135

Spencer rifle,
135

Spitfire,
230
,
234

spontaneous emission,
283

Springfield rifle,
135
,
138

Sputnik,
280

spy satellites,
292

stability of bullet,
161

steam engine,
107
,
108

Stern, Otto,
253

stimulated emission,
282

Stockton, Robert,
144
,
145

stopping power,
164

Strange, Louis,
187

Strassmann, Fritz,
250

Stuka,
225

Sturgeon, William,
139
,
140

submachine gun,
242

submarine,
148
,
211
–
14

supercavitation,
218

Swedish intervention,
99

Swinton, Ernest,
193
,
194

Szilard, Leo,
253
,
255
,
256
,
271

Taiho
,
221

Tartaglia,
78
,
79

Tecumseh
,
147

telegraph,
139
–
41

telescope (Galileo),
84

Teller, Edward,
253
,
263
,
274
–
76

Tennessee
,
147

terminal ballistics,
163

Thales,
28

thermal diffusion,
266

thermocline,
216
,
217

Thirty Years' War,
87
,
98

Thompson, Benjamin,
122

three-axis control,
167

thrust,
173

Thutmose III,
15
,
16

Tiglath-pileser III,
24
,
26
,
27

Tigris River,
24

Titan,
115

Titanic
,
191

Tizard, Henry,
209
,
227

torpedo,
146
,
147
,
217
,
218

torque,
40
,
134

torsion,
30
,
31

Toscanelli,
91

touchhole,
88

Townes, Charles,
285
,
286
,
287

tractor design,
180

trajectory of bullet,
161

transistor,
288

transitional ballistics,
155

Treaty of Versailles,
196
,
224

trebuchet,
17
,
30
,
32
,
35
,
45

Trinity,
267

triode,
288

tritium,
274

Truman, Harry,
233
,
267
,
269
,
271
,
275

turbojet,
236

Turing, Alan,
244

twist rate,
162
,
163

Ulam, Stanislaw,
275
,
276
,
278

Ulam-Teller design,
275
,
276
,
278

Uranverein (Uranium Society),
257
,
258

Urey, Harold,
253
,
261

V-1 rocket,
239

V-2 attacks on London,
239

V-2 rocket,
237
,
238

valence band,
289

Valens (Roman emperor),
49
,
50

velocity,
35
,
36

velocity of bullet,
111

Vemork, Norway,
257

Verrocchio,
69

versorium,
94

Vickers Company,
182

Virginia
,
145
,
147

viscosity,
176

Volta, Alessandro,
124

war at sea,
90

Watson-Watt, Robert,
227

Watt, James,
107
–
109
,
144

wavelength,
200

wave theory of light,
115

Weber, Joseph,
284

Weizsäcker, Carl,
258

Wellington, General,
122

Welsh,
54

Wheatstone, Charles,
140

Wheeler, John,
253
,
254
,
255

wheel lock,
89
,
113
,
114

Whitehead, Robert,
217

Whittle, Frank,
235

Wilkinson, John,
107
–
10

William II,
51
,
52

Wilson, Woodrow,
195
,
196

wing warping,
168
,
170

Wolfpack tactic,
219
,
220

wonder weapon,
16
,
19
,
22
,
23

work,
41

World War I,
181

World War II,
223
–
44

Wright brothers,
165
,
167

Wright, Orville,
167

Wright, Wilbur,
167

x-ray,
199
,
202

x-ray laser,
295

Yamamoto,
232

yaw axis,
179

Young, Thomas,
115

Zinn, Walter,
264

Zuse, Konrad,
243