The Physics of War (46 page)

gravity,
38

Great Henry
,
93

Greeks,
28

Greenwich, England,
97

grenade launchers,
295

Gribeauval, Jean-Baptiste,
118
–
20

ground state,
282

Groves, Leslie,
261
,
262
,
266
,
267
,
269

Guadalcanal,
232

gunpowder,
59

gyroscope,
161
,
215

gyroscopic inertia,
215

Haber, Fritz,
191
–
93

Habsburgs,
99

Hahn, Otto,
249
–
52
,
255
,
257

half-life,
248

Hall, Albert,
208

Halley, Edmond,
97
,
102

hand cannon,
62

hand grenades,
184

Hanford, Washington,
267

Hanley, Maurice,
193

Hannibal,
47

Harold II,
51
,
52

Harper's Ferry rifle,
135

Harrison, John,
98

Hartford
,
147

Hayden, Lance,
188

HEAT warhead,
240

heavy water,
256

Heisenberg, Werner,
255
,
257
,
260
,
261
,
270

Henry, Joseph,
140
,
141

Henry VIII,
92

Henry rifle,
136

Henry the Navigator,
90
,
91

Hermes drone,
293

Herschel, William,
199

Hertz, Heinrich,
198
,
200

Hertz's apparatus,
198

Hertz (unit),
200

HESH warhead,
240

Heston, Charlton,
22

Hickman, Clarence,
240

Hipparchus,
29
,
33
,
96

Hiroshima,
271

Hitler,
219
,
224
,
225
,
229

Hittites,
19
,
20
,
21

Holland, John,
211

Holy Roman Empire,
98
,
99

Hooke, Robert,
102

Housatonic
,
149

Howard, Edward,
131

Howard, Fred,
170

howitzer,
136
,
183
,
184

Huff Duff,
219
,
220

Hundred Years' War,
52
,
63
,
64

Hunley
,
211
,
217

Huns,
50

Hurley
,
148

Hurley, Horace,
148

Huygens, Christiaan,
107
,
114
–
16

hydrogen,
118

hydrogen bomb,
273
,
277
–
79

hydroplane,
213

ICBM,
280
,
281

Immelmann, Max,
188

impact depth,
164

impulse,
37

incoherent light,
286

induced friction,
176

induction coil,
128

Industrial Revolution,
105

inertia,
36
,
37

infrared,
203
,
204

internal ballistics,
151
,
152

invisible rays,
197

iron,
23

Iron Age,
23

ironclads,
144

isotope,
254

Istanbul,
65

Ivy Mike,
276

Iwo Jima,
232

James II,
66

Janissaries,
65

Japanese zero,
234

jet airplane,
235

Joan of Arc,
64

John I,
90

Joliot-Curie, Frederic,
247
,
248
,
255

Joliet-Curie, Irene,
245
,
255
,
257

Kadesh,
20
,
21

Kadesh, Battle of,
19
–
22

kamikaze,
232

Kennedy, John,
280

Kentucky rifle,
135

Keyhole-class spy satellites,
292

k factor,
264

kinetic energy,
39
,
40

Kitty Hawk, NC,
168
,
169
,
171

Krupp,
224

Lake, Simon,
211

Landships committee,
193

laser,
282
,
286
,
287

laser weapons,
287

latitude,
96

Lavoisier, Antoine,
117
,
118

law of conservation of mass,
118

law of gravity,
101

Lawrence, Ernest,
259
,
261
,
262

Le Mat revolver,
136

Lee, James,
183

Lee, Robert,
138

Leibniz,
101

Leonardo da Vinci,
69
,
70
,
89
,
144
,
165
,
193

Leonardo's attitude toward war,
77

Leonardo's military inventions,
72
,
73
,
74
–
76

Leonardo's physics,
71
,
72

Lewis gun,
182

Leyden jar,
124

Leyte Gulf, Battle of,
232

lift,
172
,
174

light,
203

Lilienthal, Otto,
166
,
168

Lincoln, Abraham,
137
,
139
,
144

Lion, the (cannon),
66

Lippershay, Hans,
84
,
203

liquid-fueled rocket,
238

lithium deuteride,
278

Little Boy,
267

Little Willy,
194

loadstone,
94

longbow,
52
,
53
,
55

longitude,
96
,
97

long-range missiles,
280

Lorentz machine,
244

Los Alamos,
262
,
267

Louis XIV,
106

Louis XVI,
117

Love, Thaddeus,
149

Luftwaffe,
226
,
230
,
231

Lugar,
183

Lusitania
,
190
,
191
,
195

machine gun,
181

machines,
41

madfaa,
61

magnetic field,
197

magnetic field of earth,
95

magnetron,
208
–
10

Maiman, Theodor,
287

Manhattan project,
261
,
265
,
268

Mannock, Mick,
188

Marconi, Guglielmo,
200
,
201

Mariotte, Edme,
166

Mark I,
194
,
195

Mary Rose
,
92
,
93

maser,
285
,
286

mass number,
254

matchlock,
88

MAUD committee,
258
,
259

Mauser Gewehr,
183

Maxim, Hiram,
182

maximum range ( of gun),
160

Maxwell, James,
197
,
198

Meade, George,
138

mechanical equivalent of heat,
123
,

Megiddo,
15

Meitner, Lise,
249
–
52
,
259

mercury fulminate,
131

Messerschmitt,
234
,
235

metallurgy,
23

metric system,
36

microchips,
288
,
291

Midway Island,
232

Mike test,
276
,
277

Milemete, Walter,
62

military compass (Galileo),
83

Minié ball,
133
,
135
,
138

Minié, Claude,
133

Minnesota
,
145

MIRV (multiple independent re-entry vehicle),
280
,
281

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
210

Mitchell, Billy,
189

Mobile Bay, Battle of,
147

moderator,
256

momentum,
37

M1 Garand,
242

Mongols,
50
,
59
,
62

Monitor
,
145
,
147

Mons, Battle of,
186

Mons Meg (cannon),
66

Monte San Giovanni,
67

Morse code,
141
,
201

Morse, Samuel,
141

mortar,
184

mouseion,
33

Munroe, Charles,
240

musketeers,
88

muskets,
88
,
98

Mussolini,
224

Mustang,
234

mustard gas,
192

Muwatallis II,
19
,
20
,
21

muzzle velocity,
152
–
57

Nagasaki,
271

Napoleon,
117
,
119
,
120
,
121
,
122

Napoleon (cannon),
136

Napoleon's weapons,
119

Nautilus
,
211
,
217

navigation (of submarine),
215

negative charge,
95

Nelson, Horatio,
120

neutron,
245
,
247
,
248

Newcomen, Thomas,
107

Newton, Isaac,
36
,
38
,
100
,
101

Newton's laws,
37
,
102

Nicholas, Czar,
195

night-vision device,
204

Nimitz, Chester,
232

Norden bombsight,
241
,
242

Norden, Carl,
241

Norton, John,
133

n-type semiconductor,
291

nuclear fission,
252
,
255

nuclear fusion,
273

nuclear reactor,
256
,
264
,
265

nuclear submarine,
281

Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
266

objective (telescope lens),
203

Octavius,
48

Oersted, Hans Christian,
125
,
126

Ohain, Hans von,
235

ohm,
125

Ohm, Georg,
125

Ohm's law,
125

Oliphant, Mark,
259

onager,
17
,
30
,
31
,
32
,
35
,
45
,
46
,
48

Oppenheimer, Robert,
259
–
63
,
268
,
274
,
275

oxygen,
118

Pacioli, Luca,
71

Panda Committee,
276

parabola,
56
,
82
,
83
,
158

particle beams,
295

Pash, Boris,
269
,
270

passive sonar,
216

Pearl Harbor,
231

Peierls, Rudolf,
258

Pemberton, Henry,
110

percussion cap,
131

periscope,
214

Pershing, General,
196

Persia,
23

Persian Empire,
28

Philip II,
33

Philip VI,
52

phlogiston theory,
118

Phoenicia,
28

phosgene,
192

photon,
282

physics of hydrogen bomb,
277
–
79

physics of longbow,
54

physics of propeller,
146

physics of submarines,
212

Pickett, Brigadier General,
138

pile (electric),
124
,
125

ping,
216

Pioneer II
,
148

pitch axis,
179

Pitot, Henri,
166

Pixii, Hippolyte,
142

Plato,
29
,
30

plutonium,
259

poisonous gas,
191
,
192

Poland (attack on),
226

Polaris,
29
,
91
,
93
,
94
,
95

Pollock
,
220

population inversion,
284
,
285

Porro, Ignazio,
203

positive charge,
95

potential energy,
39
,
40

power,
39
,
40

precession,
160

Predator drone,
292
,
293

Preece, William,
201

Prince Henry,
90

Princeton
,
145

Principia
,
36
,
102

propeller (submarine),
213

proton,
246

proximity fuse,
241