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Physics basics
[edit]This section contains 77 articles.
Physics basics: General
[edit]This section contains 61 articles.
- Physics (Level 2)
- Outline of physics
- Physical property
- Physical quantity
- Energy (Level 2)
- Homogeneity (physics)
- Matter (Level 3)
- Vacuum (Level 3)
- Fundamental interaction
- Spacetime (Level 4)
- Mass–energy equivalence (Level 4)
- Conservation law
- Hysteresis
- Transport phenomena
- Radiation (Level 4)
- Scalar (physics)
- Field (physics) (Level 4)
- Gauge theory (Level 4)
- Symmetry (physics) (Level 4)
- Instability
- Classical physics
- Modern physics
- Naïve physics
- Theoretical physics (Level 4)
- Experimental physics
- Computational physics
- Atmospheric physics
- Biophysics
- Chemical physics
- Polymer physics
- Mathematical physics
- List of unsolved problems in physics
- Scale invariance
- Classical limit
- Macroscopic scale
Physical constants
[edit]This section contains 16 articles.
- Physical constant
- Bohr magneton
- Bohr radius
- Boltzmann constant
- Electron magnetic moment
- Nucleon magnetic moment
- Elementary charge
- Fine-structure constant
- Gravitational constant
- Impedance of free space
- Magnetic flux quantum
- Planck constant
- Speed of light (Level 3)
- Vacuum permeability
- Vacuum permittivity
Atomic, molecular and optical physics
[edit]This section contains 98 articles.
Atomic physics
[edit]This section contains 44 articles.
- Atom (Level 2)
- Atomic physics (Level 4)
- Atomic nucleus (Level 4)
- Atomic orbital (Level 4)
- Binding energy (Level 4)
- Plum pudding model
- Rutherford model
- Bohr model (Level 4)
- Electron configuration (Level 4)
- Electron shell (Level 4)
- Exotic atom
- Ion (Level 4)
- Energy level (Level 4)
- Rutherford scattering experiments (Level 4)
- Principal quantum number
- Azimuthal quantum number
- Magnetic quantum number
- Spin quantum number
- Spectral line
- Spherical harmonics
- Density functional theory
Molecular physics
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
- Molecular physics
- Molecular orbital (Level 4)
- Rigid rotor
- Molecular dynamics
- Cross section (physics)
- Emission spectrum
- Rotational–vibrational spectroscopy
Optics
[edit]This section contains 45 articles.
- Optics (Level 3)
- Geometrical optics
- Physical optics
- Focus (optics) (Level 4)
- Focal length (Level 4)
- Photonics
- Polarization (waves) (Level 4)
- Reflection (physics) (Level 4)
- Refraction (Level 4)
- Transparency and translucency (Level 4)
- Opacity
- Optical depth
- Optical power
- Fresnel equations
- Nonlinear optics
- Birefringence
- Intensity (physics)
- Rayleigh scattering
- Aperture
- Angle of incidence (optics)
- Virtual image
- Dispersion (optics)
- Shadow
- Beer–Lambert law
- Fourier optics
- Invisibility
- Magnification
- Photometry (optics)
Color
[edit]This section contains 86 articles.
Basics
[edit]This section contains 39 articles.
- Color (Level 3)
- Blacklight
- CIE 1931 color space
- CIELAB color space
- CIELUV
- CMYK color model (Level 4)
- Color theory (Level 4)
- Color model
- Color space
- Gamut
- Gloss (optics) (Level 4)
- HCL color space
- HSL and HSV
- HWB color model
- ISCC–NBS system
- Munsell color system
- RGB color model (Level 4)
- RGBA color model
- RYB color model
- Impossible color
- Chromaticity
- Hue
- Tint, shade and tone
- Web colors
Colors
[edit]This section contains 47 articles.
- Amber (color)
- Azure (color)
- Beige
- Black (Level 4)
- Blue (Level 4)
- Brown (Level 4)
- Burgundy (color)
- Celadon
- Cerulean
- Chartreuse (color)
- Bronze (color)
- Cyan
- Fuchsia (color)
- Gold (color)
- Green (Level 4)
- Grey (Level 4)
- Indigo
- Lavender (color)
- Magenta
- Mauve
- Olive (color)
- Orange (colour) (Level 4)
- Pink (Level 4)
- Purple (Level 4)
- Red (Level 4)
- Rose (color)
- Ruby (color)
- Saffron (color)
- Silver (color)
- Spring green
- Tan (color)
- Teal
- Turquoise (color)
- Vermilion
- Violet (color)
- Viridian
- White (Level 4)
- Yellow (Level 4)
Condensed matter physics
[edit]This section contains 93 articles.
Basics
[edit]This section contains 17 articles.
- Condensed matter physics (Level 4)
- Solid-state physics (Level 4)
- Mesoscopic physics
- Einstein solid
- Electronic band structure
- Free electron model
- Hubbard model
- Soft matter
- Bonding in solids
- Rock magnetism
- Bloch's theorem
- Plasmon
- Polaron
Crystallography
[edit]This section contains 32 articles.
- Crystallography (Level 4)
- Crystal (Level 4)
- Crystallization (Level 4)
- Crystal structure
- Crystal optics
- Crystallographic defect
- Crystal twinning
- Miller index
- Atomic packing factor
- Coordination number
- Crystal polymorphism
- X-ray crystallography
- Crystal engineering
States of matter
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
- State of matter (Level 3)
- Solid (Level 4)
- Liquid (Level 4)
- Gas (Level 4)
- Plasma (physics) (Level 4)
- Degenerate matter (Level 4)
- Bose–Einstein condensate (Level 4)
- Superfluidity
- Supercritical fluid
- Supersolid
- Liquid crystal
- Quasiparticle
Phase transitions
[edit]This section contains 25 articles.
- Phase transition (Level 4)
- Phase (matter) (Level 4)
- Phase diagram (Level 4)
- Boiling (Level 4)
- Melting (Level 4)
- Freezing (Level 4)
- Evaporation (Level 4)
- Condensation (Level 4)
- Vaporization
- Ionization (Level 4)
- Plasma recombination
- Sublimation (phase transition) (Level 4)
- Deposition (phase transition)
- Critical point (thermodynamics) (Level 4)
- Triple point (Level 4)
- Miscibility
- Metallization pressure
- Curie temperature
- Phase rule
Electromagnetism
[edit]This section contains 141 articles.
Basics
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
- Classical electromagnetism
- Electricity (Level 2)
- Magnetism (Level 3)
- Dipole (Level 4)
- Metamaterial (Level 4)
- Oil drop experiment (Level 4)
- Photoelectric effect (Level 4)
- Bubble chamber
Electrostatics
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
- Electrostatics (Level 4)
- Coulomb's law (Level 4)
- Electric charge (Level 4)
- Electric field (Level 4)
- Electric potential (Level 4)
- Electric potential energy
- Electric flux
- Electric dipole moment
- Polarization density
- Dielectric (Level 4)
- Electric susceptibility
- Electrostatic induction
- Permittivity
Magnetostatics
[edit]This section contains 20 articles.
- Magnetostatics (Level 4)
- Magnetic field (Level 4)
- Magnetic flux
- Biot–Savart law
- Magnetic dipole
- Magnetic moment
- Magnetization
- Magnetic susceptibility
- Permeability (electromagnetism)
- Magnetic monopole
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Ampère's force law
Electrodynamics
[edit]This section contains 26 articles.
- Maxwell's equations (Level 4)
- Lorentz force (Level 4)
- Electromagnetic field (Level 4)
- Electromagnetic four-potential
- Electric current (Level 4)
- Displacement current
- Electric power
- Electromagnetic induction (Level 4)
- Electromotive force (Level 4)
- Eddy current (Level 4)
- Hall effect
- Electrical resistivity and conductivity
- Retarded time
- Lenz's law
- Poynting's theorem
- Right-hand rule
Electromagnetic radiation
[edit]This section contains 38 articles.
- Electromagnetic radiation (Level 3)
- Electromagnetic spectrum (Level 4)
- Poynting vector
- Evanescent field
- Transverse mode
- Waveguide (radio frequency)
- Larmor formula
- Bremsstrahlung (Level 4)
- Cyclotron radiation
- Synchrotron radiation
- Compton scattering
- Radiative transfer
- Faraday effect
- Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
- Near and far field
- Radiant flux
- Irradiance
- Point source
- Radiance
- Radiometry
- Spectral density
- Luminescence
- Thermal radiation
Electrical circuits
[edit]This section contains 24 articles.
- Electrical network (Level 4)
- Electrical impedance (Level 4)
- Electrical reactance
- Electrical resistance and conductance (Level 4)
- Electrical conductor
- Insulator (electricity)
- Semiconductor (Level 4)
- Superconductivity (Level 4)
- Capacitance (Level 4)
- Gain (electronics) (Level 4)
- Ground (electricity)
- Inductance (Level 4)
- Kirchhoff's circuit laws (Level 4)
Mechanics
[edit]This section contains 330 articles.
Basics
[edit]This section contains 25 articles.
- Mechanics (Level 4)
- Oscillation (Level 4)
- Collision
- Degrees of freedom (mechanics)
- Free particle
- Point particle
- Virial theorem
- Shock (mechanics)
- Mechanical equilibrium
- Displacement (geometry)
- Test particle
Quantum mechanics
[edit]This section contains 98 articles.
- Quantum mechanics (Level 3)
- AdS/CFT correspondence
- Born rule
- Bra–ket notation
- Correspondence principle
- Dirac equation
- Expectation value (quantum mechanics)
- Gyromagnetic ratio
- Interpretations of quantum mechanics
- Hidden-variable theory
- Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics
- Matrix mechanics
- Measurement in quantum mechanics
- Observable
- Operator (physics)
- Parity (physics)
- Particle in a box
- Path integral formulation
- Pauli exclusion principle (Level 4)
- Perturbation theory
- Planck postulate
- Position and momentum spaces
- Probability amplitude
- Quantization (physics)
- Quantum chromodynamics (Level 4)
- Quantum electrodynamics (Level 4)
- Quantum entanglement (Level 4)
- Quantum field theory (Level 4)
- Quantum fluctuation
- Quantum gravity (Level 4)
- Quantum harmonic oscillator
- Quantum indeterminacy
- Quantum number
- Quantum state
- Quantum superposition
- Quantum tunnelling (Level 4)
- Relativistic quantum mechanics
- Schrödinger equation (Level 4)
- Stern–Gerlach experiment
- Symmetry in quantum mechanics
- Uncertainty principle (Level 4)
- Wave function (Level 4)
- Wave–particle duality (Level 4)
- WKB approximation
- Zero-point energy
- Variational method (quantum mechanics)
Classical mechanics
[edit]This section contains 96 articles.
- Classical mechanics (Level 3)
- Mass (Level 3)
- Momentum (Level 3)
- Force (Level 3)
- Motion (Level 3)
- Kinetic energy (Level 4)
- Potential energy (Level 4)
- Scalar potential
- Vector potential
- Moment (physics)
- Inertia (Level 4)
- Moment of inertia (Level 4)
- Friction (Level 4)
- Impulse (physics) (Level 4)
- Power (physics) (Level 4)
- Work (physics) (Level 4)
- Action (physics)
- Angular displacement
- Angular frequency
- Angular velocity
- Angular acceleration
- Rotation (Level 4)
- Rolling
- Torque (Level 4)
- Weight (Level 4)
- Frame of reference (Level 4)
- Newton's law of universal gravitation (Level 4)
- Fictitious force
- Free body diagram
- Central force
- Restoring force
- n-body problem
- Radiation pressure
- Gravitational field
- Gravitational potential
- Tidal force
- Impact (mechanics)
- Precession
- Vibration
- Damping
- Conservative force
- Force field (physics)
- Normal force
- Canonical coordinates
- Resultant force
- Perpetual motion
- Galilean transformation
- Projectile
- Reaction (physics)
Fluid mechanics
[edit]This section contains 52 articles.
- Fluid mechanics (Level 4)
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Rheology
- Bernoulli's principle (Level 4)
- Buoyancy (Level 4)
- Convection (Level 4)
- Drag (physics) (Level 4)
- Diffusion (Level 4)
- Fluid dynamics (Level 4)
- Hydrostatics
- Lift (force) (Level 4)
- Navier–Stokes equations (Level 4)
- Osmosis (Level 4)
- Reynolds number (Level 4)
- Surface tension (Level 4)
- Turbulence (Level 4)
- Viscosity (Level 4)
- Flow measurement
- Flow velocity
- Fluid
- Mass flow (life sciences)
- Vorticity
- Laminar flow
- Compressible flow
- Incompressible flow
- Deformation (physics)
- Boundary layer
- Euler equations (fluid dynamics)
- Circulation (physics)
- Pipe flow
- Slosh dynamics
Solid mechanics
[edit]This section contains 30 articles.
- Solid mechanics (Level 4)
- Deformation (engineering) (Level 4)
- Elastic modulus (Level 4)
- Elasticity (physics) (Level 4)
- Fatigue (material) (Level 4)
- Hooke's law (Level 4)
- Plasticity (physics) (Level 4)
- Rigid body
- Stiffness (Level 4)
- Strength of materials (Level 4)
- Stress (mechanics) (Level 4)
- Shearing (physics)
- Bulk modulus
- Finite strain theory
- Shear modulus
- Young's modulus
- Contact mechanics
- Piezoelectricity
- Toughness
- Fracture toughness
- Crystallite
Soil mechanics
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Statistical mechanics
[edit]This section contains 26 articles.
- Statistical mechanics (Level 4)
- Microstate (statistical mechanics)
- Boltzmann distribution
- Partition function (statistical mechanics)
- Distribution function (physics)
- Density of states
- Indistinguishable particles
- Particle statistics
- Entropy (statistical thermodynamics)
- Ensemble (mathematical physics)
- Maxwell's demon
- Work (thermodynamics)
- Molecular diffusion
- Detailed balance
- Fluctuation–dissipation theorem
Nuclear physics
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
- Nuclear physics (Level 4)
- Radioactive decay (Level 3)
- Nuclear binding energy
- Nuclear fission (Level 4)
- Nuclear fusion (Level 4)
- Nuclear reaction
- Nuclear isomer
- High-energy nuclear physics
- Nuclear force
- Nuclear structure
- Nucleosynthesis (Level 4)
- Semi-empirical mass formula
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Island of stability
Particle physics
[edit]This section contains 124 articles.
Particle physics: General
[edit]This section contains 49 articles.
- Particle physics (Level 3)
- Standard Model (Level 3)
- Physics beyond the Standard Model (Level 4)
- Particle (Level 4)
- Scattering (Level 4)
- Annihilation
- CP violation
- CPT symmetry
- Electroweak interaction
- Hierarchy problem
- Feynman diagram
- Generation (particle physics)
- Pair production
- Particle decay
- Discovery of the neutron
- Charge conservation
- QCD matter
- Quark model
- Scalar field theory
- Symmetry breaking
- Noether's theorem
- Baryon asymmetry
- Vacuum energy
Quantum numbers
[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
- Spin (physics) (Level 4)
- Baryon number
- Lepton number
- Color charge
- Flavour (particle physics)
- Strangeness
- Isospin
- Weak isospin
- Hypercharge
- Weak hypercharge
- Chirality (physics)
Devices
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Subatomic particles
[edit]This section contains 45 articles.
Subatomic particles: General
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
- Subatomic particle (Level 3)
- Elementary particle
- Force carrier
- List of particles
- Hadron (Level 4)
- Massless particle
- Virtual particle
- Tachyon
Fermions
[edit]This section contains 22 articles.
Bosons
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Antimatter
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Theory of relativity
[edit]This section contains 45 articles.
- Theory of relativity (Level 3)
- General relativity (Level 4)
- Special relativity (Level 4)
- Principle of covariance
- Principle of relativity (Level 4)
- Equivalence principle (Level 4)
- Gravitational wave (Level 4)
- Lorentz transformation (Level 4)
- Michelson–Morley experiment (Level 4)
- Four-vector
- Relativity of simultaneity
- Time dilation
- Length contraction
- Causality (physics) (Level 4)
- Proper time
- Lorentz factor
- Cherenkov radiation
- Energy–momentum relation
- Minkowski space
- Luminiferous aether
- Gravitational singularity
- Hawking radiation
- Spacetime diagram
- Stress–energy tensor
- No-hair theorem
Thermodynamics
[edit]This section contains 102 articles.
- Thermodynamics (Level 3)
- Heat (Level 3)
- Temperature (Level 3)
- Pressure (Level 4)
- Particle number
- Laws of thermodynamics (Level 4)
- Fundamental thermodynamic relation
- Heat capacity (Level 4)
- Latent heat
- Heat transfer (Level 4)
- Entropy (Level 4)
- Internal energy (Level 4)
- Thermodynamic cycle (Level 4)
- Thermodynamic free energy (Level 4)
- Ideal gas
- Heat engine
- Energy conversion efficiency
- Kinetic theory of gases
- Thermodynamic state
- Thermal conductivity and resistivity
- Thermodynamic equilibrium
- Thermodynamic potential
- Black body
- Equipartition theorem
- Thermodynamic process
- Chemical potential
- Intensive and extensive properties
- Thermodynamic system
- Brownian motion
- Photon gas
- Entropy of mixing
- Fluctuation theorem
- Thermal energy
- Thermal equilibrium
- Thermodynamic equations
- Boltzmann equation
- Maxwell relations
- Thermal expansion
- Thermal fluctuations
- Thermodynamic limit
Waves
[edit]This section contains 47 articles.
- Wave (Level 3)
- Mechanical wave
- Acoustics (Level 4)
- Amplitude (Level 4)
- Phase (waves)
- Frequency (Level 4)
- Wavelength (Level 4)
- Wavenumber
- Wave vector
- Diffraction (Level 4)
- Doppler effect (Level 4)
- Wave interference (Level 4)
- Noise (Level 4)
- Resonance (Level 4)
- Superposition principle (Level 4)
- Wave equation (Level 4)
- Node (physics)
- Radio frequency
- Wavefront
- Harmonic
- Pulse (physics)
- Group velocity
- Phase velocity
- Shock wave
- Waveform
- Coherence (physics)
- Standing wave
- Wave packet
- Dispersion (water waves)
- Plane wave