Physics

Articles about matter, energy, forces and physical laws.

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Combined gas law

Composite particle

Compressive strength

Compressive stress

Compton scattering

Condensed matter physics

Conduction

Conservation law

Conservation law (physics)

Conservation of energy

Convection

Convection

Convection: heat transfer by fluid motion

Convection is heat transfer carried by the bulk motion of fluids. This article describes mechanisms, natural and forced convection, examples, key nondimensional parameters, modelin

Copenhagen interpretation

Coriolis effect

Coriolis effect

Corium (nuclear reactor)

Cosmic ray

Cosmological principle

Coulomb

Coulomb — SI unit of electric charge

Coulomb's law

CP violation

CP Violation in Particle Physics: Causes, Experiments, and Cosmological Significance

Crest (physics)

Critical point (thermodynamics)

Cutoff frequency

Cutoff Frequency: threshold in photoemission, filters, and waveguides

Cyclotron

Cyclotron: principles, history, design, and applications

Dalton's law

Dalton's law of partial pressures

Damping

Damping in physical systems: mechanisms, models, and applications

Dark matter

Dark matter: the invisible mass that shapes the cosmos

Degree of freedom

Degree of Freedom (in physics and engineering)

Density

Density

Diamagnetism

Diffraction

Diffraction — wave behavior, patterns, and applications

Dipole

Dipole: electric and magnetic dipoles, dipole moment and applications

Dirac equation

Dirac equation: relativistic wave equation for spin-1/2 particles

Direct current

Dispersion

Dispersion (wave phenomena)

Dissipation

Dissipation (physics): energy loss, damping, and irreversible processes

Distance

Distance: concepts, calculations, and practical uses

Doppler effect

Doppler effect

Doppler radar

Down quark

Down quark: properties, role in matter and significance in particle physics

Drag (physics)

Drag (physics): resistance force experienced by objects moving through fluids

Dynamic pressure

Dynamics

Effective range

Effective range (firearm ballistics)

Einstein field equations

Elastic collision

Elastic limit

Elastic modulus

Elasticity

Elasticity (physics)