CZ:Core Articles > Physics
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Physics: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
- Electricity: The flow or presence of electric charge; the flow of electricity is an important carrier of energy. [e]
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Electromagnetism: Phenomena and theories regarding electricity and magnetism. [e]
- String theory: Add brief definition or description
- General relativity: Add brief definition or description
- Mathematical physics: Add brief definition or description
- Statistical mechanics: Add brief definition or description
- Classical mechanics: The science of mechanics, which is concerned with the set of physical laws governing and mathematically describing the motions of bodies and aggregates of bodies geometrically distributed within a certain boundary under the action of a system of forces. [e]
- Quantum mechanics: An important branch of physics dealing with the behavior of matter and energy at very small scales. [e]
- Thermodynamics: The statistical description of the properties of molecular systems [e]
- Optics: Add brief definition or description
- Condensed matter physics: Add brief definition or description
- Particle physics: Branch of physics that deals with subatomic particles. [e]
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Astrophysics: Hybrid of Physics and Astronomy that attempts to explain the physical workings of the celestial objects and phenomena. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics: Add brief definition or description
- Nuclear physics: Add brief definition or description
- Materials physics: Add brief definition or description
- Computational physics: Add brief definition or description
- The standard model: Add brief definition or description
- Particle accelerators: Add brief definition or description
- Maxwell equations: Mathematical equations describing the interrelationship between electric and magnetic fields; dependence of the fields on electric charge- and current- densities. [e]
- Kinematics: The quantitative description of the trajectory of a system. [e]
- Rigid rotor: A 3-dimensional rigid object rotating around its center of mass. [e]
- Huygen's principle: Add brief definition or description
- Diffraction: Add brief definition or description
- Doppler effect: Add brief definition or description
- Lagrangian mechanics: Add brief definition or description
- Coulomb's law: An inverse-square distance law, like Newton's gravitational law, describing the forces acting between electric point charges; also valid for the force between magnetic poles. [e]
- Waves: Add brief definition or description
- Standing waves: Add brief definition or description
- Simple harmonic oscillator: One-dimensional system showing periodic motion [e]
- Relativistic quantum mechanics: Add brief definition or description
- Fluids: Add brief definition or description
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Ideal gas law: Relates pressure, volume and temperature for hypothetical gases of atoms or molecules with negligible intermolecular forces. [e]
- Entropy: Add brief definition or description
- Perturbation theory: Add brief definition or description
- Pressure: A ratio equal to the force applied perpendicular to the surface of the area divided by that area (force/area). [e]
- Strong force: Add brief definition or description
- Weak force: One of the four fundamental forces. [e]
- Fermions: Add brief definition or description
- Boson: elementary particle with integral spin; composite system consisting of an even number of fermions. [e]
- Leptons: Add brief definition or description
- Hadrons: Add brief definition or description
- Higgs boson: The last particle, first proposed by Peter Higgs, in the Standard Model of particle physics which has not been observed. [e]
- Dirac equation: Add brief definition or description
- Klein-Gordon equation: Add brief definition or description
- Čerenkov radiation: Add brief definition or description
- Refractive index: Add brief definition or description
- Ferromagnetism: Add brief definition or description
- Paramagnetism: Add brief definition or description
- Diamagnetism: Add brief definition or description
- Superconductivity: Add brief definition or description
- Semiconductors: Add brief definition or description
- Lenz's law: States that a change in magnetic flux gives an induced current that opposes this change. [e]
- Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction: States that a change in magnetic flux generates an electromotive force (EMF). [e]
- Bernouilli's equation: Add brief definition or description
- Viscosity: Add brief definition or description
- Pascal's principle: Add brief definition or description
- Rutherford scattering: Add brief definition or description
- Quantum field theory: Add brief definition or description
- Momentum: mass of a particle times its velocity (a vector). [e]
- Angular momentum (quantum): A vector operator of which the three components have well-defined commutation relations. [e]
- Angular momentum (classical): The tendency of a rotating object to resist changes to its rotational motion. [e]
- Energy (science): A measurable physical quantity of a system which can be expressed in joules (the metric unit for a quantity of energy) or other measurement units such as ergs, calories, watt-hours or Btu. [e]
- Force: Vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application. [e]
- Mass: The total amount of a substance, or alternatively, the total energy of a substance. [e]
- Weight: The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity. [e]
- Charge: Add brief definition or description
- Four vector: Add brief definition or description
- Photo-electric effect: Add brief definition or description
- Blackbody radiation: Add brief definition or description
- Compton scattering: The decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon, when it interacts with matter. [e]
- Supersymmetry: Add brief definition or description
- Electroweak unification: Add brief definition or description
- Grand unified theory: Add brief definition or description
- Quantum harmonic oscillator: Add brief definition or description
- Double beta decay: Add brief definition or description
- Large extra dimensions: Add brief definition or description
- Millikan oildrop experiment: Add brief definition or description
- Michelson-Morley experiment: Add brief definition or description
- Polarization: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Polarization (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Electromagnetic radiation: a collection of electromagnetic waves, usually of different wavelengths. [e]
- Archimedes' principle: Add brief definition or description
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Electric motor: A device which converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. [e]
- Power: Add brief definition or description
- Vector (mathematics): A mathematical object with magnitude and direction. [e]
- Scalar: Real or complex number, or an invariant under orthogonal/unitary transformation of reference frame. [e]
- Tensor: Add brief definition or description
- Potential energy: Add brief definition or description
- Electric potential: The potential energy associated with interacting charges and more commonly known as voltage. [e]
- Boltzmann's Constant: The physical constant relating energy at the particle level with temperature observed at the bulk level. [e]
- Relative permittivity: an intrinsic property of a dielectric; it is the proportionality constant between an electric field and an electric displacement in a dielectric. [e]
- Electric constant: The permittivity of empty space, equal to 1 in centimeter-gram-second electrostatic units and to 107/4πc2 farads per meter or, numerically, to 8.854 × 10-12 farad per meter in International System units. [e]
- Magnetic constant: Is proportionality factor in Ampère's equation which relates mechanical force and electric current. [e]
