Sunday, March 26, 2006

Physics Glossary

A

abberation

Absolute Temperature

absolute zero


absorptance

absorption lines

acceleration

Accretion Disk

Acoustic Spectrum

Adhesion

Adiabatic Change

admittance

Airy points

albedo

allowed transition

alpha decay

alpha particle

Alpha Ray

altimeter

Ampere

Ampere's law

amplitude

AMU

angle of deviation

angle of incidence

angle of reflection

angle of refraction

angstrom

angular momentum

angular velocity

annihilation

antibubble


antiferromagnetism

antimatter

antinode

antiparticle

Arago Point

Archimedes' Principle

astigmatism

atm

atmospheric pressure

B

band theory of solids


barn

Bernoullis' law

black-body


black-body radiation


black-body temperature


boiling

bremsstrahlung

bubble

C

c - Speed Of Light

charge

critical point


critical pressure

change of state


chromatic aberration

color charge

color force

coma

compton effect


conductivity


critical temperature


D

dark matter

derivative

diamagnetism

diffraction grating


dimensions

dioptre


distortion

divergence

E

electric field

electrokinetic

elementary particle


energy


entropy

F

Faraday's law of induction

ferromagnetism

force

fluid

free body diagram

freezing

frequency

friction

G

Galilean Transformation

gas (fluid dynamics)

gas (thermodynamics)

graviton

gravity

H

heat capacity


heat death

hidden variables theory

hydrostatic approximation

I

image

J

K

kelvin

L

laminar flow

lens

light year

liquid

M

magnetism

N

nanotechnology

neutrino

nuclear physics

O

Order of Magnitude

orbital

P

paramagnetism

photoelectric effect

photon

physics Planck's Radiation Law

plasmon

Q

quantum

quantum chromodynamics

quantum cryptography

quantum gravity

quark

R

radio

Radioactive Age

Radioactive Equilibrium

radioactivity

radioastronomy

radio frequencies

Reynolds' number

Root Mean Square (RMS) value

S

scanning tunelling microscope (STM)

shearing force

solid

spherical aberration

star

steam point

Stirling Cycle

STM (scanning tunelling microscope)

strain

streamfunction

streak line

streamline

string (string theory)

superstring theory supersymmetry

surfactant

T

tachyon

temperature

temperature scales

thermodynamics

turbulent flow

U

V

valence electron

vector

velocity

viscosity

W

X

Y

year

Z

Z boson

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