Physics — (Greek: physis φύσις), in everyday terms, is the science of matter [R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands (1963), The Feynman Lectures on Physics , ISBN 0 201 02116 1 Hard cover. p.1 1 Feynman begins with the atomic hypothesis.] and its motion … Wikipedia
Physics education — refers both to the methods currently used to teach physics and to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Historically, physics has been taught at the high school and college level primarily by the lecture method… … Wikipedia
Physics in medieval Islam — is the development of physics in the medieval Islamic world in the history of physics. In the course of the expansion of the Islamic world, Muslim scholars encountered the science, mathematics, and medicine of antiquity through the works of… … Wikipedia
Physics (Aristotle) — Physics (or Physica , or Physicae Auscultationes meaning lessons ) is a key text in the philosophy of Aristotle. It inaugurates the current Andronichean order, the long series of Aristotle s physical, cosmological and biological works, and is… … Wikipedia
PHYSICS — The material presented in this entry emphasizes those contributions which were important in arriving at verified present day scientific results, rather than those that may have appeared important at the time. Unavoidably it will overlap in parts… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Method of image charges — The method of image charges (also known as the method of images and method of mirror charges) is a basic problem solving tool in electrostatics. The name originates from the replacement of certain elements in the original layout with imaginary… … Wikipedia
physics — /fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science that deals with matter, energy, motion, and force. [1580 90; see PHYSIC, ICS] * * * I Science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of… … Universalium
Method of images — See also Method of image charges for applications in electrostatics and magnetostatics Method of images (or mirror images) is a mathematical tool for solving differential equations in which the domain of the sought function is extended by the… … Wikipedia
Method of lines — The method of lines (MOL, NMOL, NUMOL) (Schiesser, 1991; Hamdi, et al., 2007; Schiesser, 2009 ) is a technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in which all but one dimension is discretized. MOL allows standard, general purpose… … Wikipedia
Physics beyond the Standard Model — Beyond the Standard Model Standard Model … Wikipedia