Physics Glossary

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absorbanceabsorberabsorption
absorption factorabundanceacceleration
acousticsactivatedadiabatic
aeolotropicaerodynamicamplitude
angle of dipangular accelerationangular velocity
antinodeastronauticsastronomy
atomatomic physicsatomic spectrum
attracterattractorbackscatter
biophysicsbohr theoryboltzmann distribution law
bombardbose-einstein statisticsbound
center of buoyancycenter of immersionchaos
charles's lawcoefficient of elasticitycohesion
collisioncolor forceconservation
conservation of parityconstant of gravitationcontainment
coriolis effectcoriolis forcecorpuscular theory
corpuscular theory of lightcriticalcryogeny
crystalisecrystallographydeceleration
decomposedegaussdemagnetise
demagnetizedepolarisedepolarize
diabaticdiffusiondip
disintegratedynamicdynamical system
einstein's theory of relativityelastic moduluselectrify
electromagneticselectronicselectrostatics
eolotropicexcitedfermi-dirac statistics
fiducialfield theoryfissile
fluxflux densityforce
freefree energyfreeze down
freeze outfundamental interactiong
gas constantgay-lussac's lawgravitation wave
gravitational attractiongravitational constantgravitational force
gravitational massgravitational theorygravity wave
ground statehigh energy physicshigh-energy physics
hithodoscopehooke's law
hydrodynamichyperfineidentical
induceinductinertia
inertial massinteractionkinetic theory
kinetic theory of gaseskirchhoff's lawslaw of gravitation
law of thermodynamicslaw of volumesliquefy
liquidiseliquidizeliquify
magnetmagnetic dipmagnetic dipole moment
magnetic inclinationmagnetisemagnetize
mass energymass-energy equivalencemaxwell-boltzmann distribution law
mechanicsmeniscusmesic
mesonicmetastabilitymetastable
mirror symmetrymisciblemixable
modulusmodulus of elasticitymolecule
newton's law of gravitationnewton's theory of gravitationnode
non-misciblenoncriticalnonfissionable
nuclearnuclear physicsnuclear reaction
nuclear reactornucleonicsoptical density
opticsoscillationparity
particle physicspencilperturbation
photographic densityphysicistplanck's law
planck's radiation lawplasma physicspolarise
polarizepowerprinciple of equivalence
principle of relativityquantalquantise
quantizequantizedquantum
quantum jumpquantum physicsquantum theory
quenchrreactive
reactorrecombinationrelativistic
relativistic massrelativity theoryrelaxation
relaxation behaviorreluctancereluctivity
repulsiverest massreversible
reversiblyrheologicrheological
rheologyscintillationshear
solid-state physicssolidifysolitary wave
solitonsoliton wavespace-reflection symmetry
spallationstatistical mechanicsstrain
strong forcestrong interactionsupersymmetry
symmetrysympathetic vibrationtension
theory of gravitationtheory of gravitytheory of relativity
thermodynamicstransformtranslate
transmission densitytransmutationuncharged
undulatory theoryuniversal gas constantuniversal gravitational constant
unmixableunreactiveuranology
vibrationviscoelasticvisible light
visible radiationwavewave front
wave-particle dualitywavefrontweak force
weak interactionwork 

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