CZ:Core Articles/Physics

This page lists links to entries identified as CZ:Core Articles in physics.

Current status on the CZ progress scale: Stage 3

•  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]
•  Electromagnetism: Phenomena and theories regarding electricity and magnetism. ^[e]
•  String theory: Add brief definition or description
• General relativity: A mathematical theory relating gravity to non-Euclidean distortions in the geometry of space and time introduced by mass and energy, and reducing to the special theory of relativity in localized regions of space and time. ^[e]
• Mathematical physics: Add brief definition or description
• Statistical mechanics: A theoretical model by which one can derive the laws of thermodynamics via statistical analysis of the dynamics of a large number of atoms and molecules ^[e]
•  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: A field of scientific, technological, and engineering study and application concerned with understanding light, — typically in the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum — and harnessing it for useful tasks. ^[e]
• Condensed matter physics: Add brief definition or description
•  Particle physics: The branch of physics that deals with subatomic particles. ^[e]
•  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: A branch of the science of physics involving nuclei of atoms, sub-atomic particles, and any reactions involving them. ^[e]
• 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: A physical phenomenon that causes waves to bend around corners ^[e]
•  Doppler effect: Frequency changes of a wave due to relative motion between source and observer. ^[e]
• 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
• Harmonic oscillator: Add brief definition or description
• Relativistic quantum mechanics: Add brief definition or description
• Fluids: Add brief definition or description
•  Ideal gas law: Relates pressure, volume and temperature for hypothetical gases of atoms or molecules with negligible intermolecular forces. ^[e]
•  Entropy (thermodynamics): Thermodynamic variable S appearing in the second law of thermodynamics. ^[e]
• 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: Add brief definition or description
• Fermions: Add brief definition or description
•  Boson: Add brief definition or description
• Leptons: Add brief definition or description
• Hadrons: Add brief definition or description
•  Higgs boson: Add brief definition or description
• 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: Add brief definition or description
•  Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction: Add brief definition or description
• 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: Add brief definition or description
•  Angular momentum (quantum): Add brief definition or description
•  Angular momentum (classical): Add brief definition or description
•  Energy (science): Add brief definition or description
•  Force: Add brief definition or description
•  Mass: Add brief definition or description
•  Weight: Add brief definition or description
• 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: Add brief definition or description
• 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: Add brief definition or description
•  Electromagnetic radiation: Add brief definition or description
• Archimedes' principle: Add brief definition or description
•  Electric motor: Add brief definition or description
•  Power: Add brief definition or description
•  Vector (mathematics): Add brief definition or description
•  Scalar: Add brief definition or description
• Tensor: Add brief definition or description
• Potential energy: Add brief definition or description
• Electric potential: Add brief definition or description
•  Boltzmann's Constant: Add brief definition or description
•  Relative permittivity: Add brief definition or description
•  Electric constant: Add brief definition or description
•  Magnetic constant: Add brief definition or description