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quantum law comparison table

Subject	has discoverer	has corollary	has equation	has definition	has implication	has synonym	has example	has acronym	is a kind of	applies to	is an instance of
exclusion principle				Two identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state (i.e. cannot have the same charge, spin, momentum, quantum numbers etc. within the same region of space).	solid objects cannot exist in the same physical space.	Pauli exclusion principle	No two electrons in an atom can have the same set of values for the four quantum numbers n, l, mb, ms.			fermion	quantum law
Fermi-Dirac-Sommerfeld law				A law which gives the algebraic number of a quantized system of particles which have velocities within a small range.				FDS			quantum law
Kirchhoff's law				(1) To each chemical species there corresponds a characteristic spectrum. (2) Every element is capable of absorbing the radiation which it is able to emit; this is the phenomenon of the reversal of the lines.					quantum law
Rayleigh-Jeans law				An approximation of Planck's blackbody formula valid at long wavelengths (hv << kT). It is often used in radio astronomy; it gives the brightness temperature of a radio telescope.							quantum law
Stefan's law				The flux of radiation from a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature: L = 4πR2σT4.							quantum law
uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg	it is impossible to measure an atomic or nuclear process without at the same time disturbing or altering the process.	Relation Conjugates ΔxΔp ≥ h position, momentum ΔEΔt ≥ h energy, time	The principle that the fundamental uncertainty in a variable times that in its canonical conjugate is of the order of Planck's constant.	the microscopic realm is a roiling frenzy, awash in a violent sea of quantum fluctuations.	Heisenberg uncertainty principle	the uncertainty in the measurement of the position of an electron varies inversely as the uncertainty in the measurement of its momentum.				quantum law
wave-particle duality				Basic feature of quantum mechanics that objects manifest both wavelike and particle-like properties.							quantum law
Wien's law				The wavelength at which a blackbody emits the greatest amount of radiation is inversely proportional to its absolute temperature.							quantum law

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