326 



INDEX 



Exergonic (degradation, catabolic) proc- 

 esses, 175 

 Exothermic processes, 166 

 Exponential relationship, defined, 10, 23 

 Exponents (See Indices) 



Extrasensory perception (ESP), 297 (foot- 

 note) 

 Eye, architecture and parts of the, 83-85 



cataracts on the, 91 



color vision of the, 89-90, 277 



depth perception, 91 



optic nerve endings in, 89, 277 

 electroretinogram ol, 90 



rod and cone cells; pigments in, 88 



sensitivity, 89 



twilight vision, 87 



/ — a function (form unspecified): /(*), f(v), 

 f(v/d), etc.; focal length of lens; frequency 



f — f re e energy per mole (Gibbs' free energy); 

 force 



F — Faraday's constant, 96,500 cou/equiv. 



AF — reversible change in free energy per 

 mole of reaction; maximum work 



AF' — external work per mole of reaction 



5J — free energy of whole system 



Air — reversible change in free energy of 

 whole system; maximum work 



AC? ' — external work done 



A3' 



-internal work done 



Falling body, description of, 15 

 Faraday, on electrolysis, 68, 220 

 Farley, on neural simulation by com- 

 puters, 303, 304 

 Fats, fuel value of, 166 



lipids and, properties of some, 129 

 Feedback in biological systems, 300 



general and particular, 301 



negative, 301 

 Fermions. 73 



Fick, laws of diffusion of, 208-209, 228 

 Field strength, defined, 38, 40 



across living membranes, 143 



in ionization chambers, 107 

 Fletcher, on speech, 47, 59 

 Fluid flow, 212 ff 



as a molecular process, 214 



factors of rate expression for, 228 



laminar and turbulent, 212, 215 



Newtonian and non-Newtonian, 213 



Poiseuille's law of, 213 



Reynolds number, 215 

 Fluidity or specific rate of viscous flow 



and molecular weight of dissolved macro- 

 molecules, 138 



definition of fluidity constant, 213 



effect of ionizing radiations on, 246 



effect of tube length and radius, for 

 blood, 217 



inverse of viscosity, 138, 215 



of plasma and blood, 216 



table of values, 214 



temperature coefficient of, 214 

 Fluorescence, definition of, 146 



and discovery of radioactivity, 102 



and discovery of X rays, 68 



in amino acids, nitrogen compounds, and 

 proteins, 147 



in solids and liquid detectors of ionizing 

 radiations, 110, 239-240 

 Force, basic definition, and dimensions, 26, 

 28 



and energy, 45, 175, 228-229 



driving, in chemical processes, 175 



electrical, electromagnetic and magnetic, 

 42, 44 



generalized, 26-27, 44, 45, 228, 229 



intermolecular, 41-43 



osmotic, 35-38 

 Force-velocity relationship for muscle, 280 

 Fourier, law of heat conduction, 225 



analysis of EEG, method of, 



analysis of diffracted X-ray spectrum 

 Free energy, defined, 168 



and equilibrium, 175-177 



as maximum work, 168-169 



of formation, 185 



of reaction; table of values, 172 

 Functions, definition and illustrations, 9-16 



g — grams 



g — acceleration due to gravity, 30 

 g t — ionic conductances through nerve mem- 

 branes, 270-271 

 o-forces, and atmospheric pressure, 31 



on man in several aspects, and upon im- 

 pact, 30 

 Galileo, on falling bodies, 14 

 Galvani, on electrochemistry and nerve, 263 

 Gamma rays, absorption, mechanisms of, 106 



effect of, as ionizing radiations, 105 



energy distribution of, 113 



integrated dose of, 258 



penetration of, 116-118 



physical properties of, 103, 106 

 Gamov, on the atomic nucleus, 74 



on coding theory, 154 

 Gases, effects of pressure on, 31 



solubility (Henry's law), 33 

 Geiger counter, 109 

 Genetic effects of ionizing radiations, 253 



