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Alphabetical index

Valency The valency (or valence) of an atom determines the number of ...	Velocity Velocity is the ratio of distance to time. The S.I. unit: ...
Vickers hardness index The Vickers index measures the hardness of a material using ...	Virgo Virgo is a Franco-Italian experiment near Pisa designed to ...
Viscoelasticity Viscoelasticity is the reaction to stress of a material ...	Viscoplasticity Viscoplasticity is the reaction to stress of a material ...
Viscosity Viscosity is the property of resisting uniform non-turbulent ...	Volt The volt is the legal (SI) unit of voltage (or potential ...
Vortex The term vortex is used to denote a whirlpool-like movement ...	Vortex line Kip Thorne and his colleagues introduced the concepts of ...
W boson The W boson is the particle that mediates the weak ...	Wakefield A wakefield is a relativistic wave propagated at a speed ...
Watt The watt is the legal (SI) unit of power (symbol: W) ...	Watt-hour The watt-hour is the usual unit of electrical energy (symbol ...
Wave mechanics Wave mechanics originated with the work of Louis de Broglie ...	Wave velocity The velocity of a wave is its propagation speed. For light ...
Wavelength All electromagnetic waves are defined by their wavelength ...	Wavenumber The wavenumber is a quantity proportional to the number of ...
Wettability Wettability is the ability of a surface to be wetted by a ...	Wigner effect The Wigner effect, discovered by the Hungarian physicist ...