Lec 36 MIT 8 02 Electricity and Magnetism Spring 2002

Description: took 8.02 you should know by now what a kilo electron volt is. Uh, optical light is 2 electron volts, where x-rays, way more energetic than optical light. Uh, during the Second World War Wernher von Braun in Peenemunde developed under Hitler Germany destructive rockets. They were used to destroy the Allies. To destroy you and me. And after the war, around 1948, the Americans used these rockets to do science. They also got Werner von Braun over to this country and for reasons unknown to me ...