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* ... applications in gauge field theories and the physics of condensed matter. The starting point here is now quite well known: expre ...l equations and [[functional analysis]]. A great part of twentieth century physics and mathematics could have been created in the nineteenth century, simply b ...

...h-Australian theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and renormalization theory. * Dynamical variables are what count in physics, not coordinate or gauge transformations. ...

...k at what primarily motivated Michelson (and Morley) into performing these experiments. One of the clear motivations was a letter written by [[James Clerk Maxwell ...hich it is practicable to determine the velocity of light from terrestrial experiments depend on the measurement of the time required for the double journey from ...

...ch physicist who shared the 1902 [[w:Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize in Physics]] with [[w:Pieter Zeeman|Pieter Zeeman]] for the discovery and theoretical ..., he may certainly take credit for making us see in the negative result of experiments like those of [[Albert A. Michelson|Michelson]], [[w:John William Strutt, 3 ...

* There were many other experiments that had created a highly unsatisfactory state of affairs with respect to t * [[w:Classical mechanics|Classical physics]]—the physics of [[Isaac Newton]]—made clear that if you are on a uniformly [non-accelera ...

...Video] from the [https://www.youtube.com/@InstituteofPhysics Institute of Physics channel.]</small> ...counted the events'''... what was happening in their {{w|nuclear physics}} experiments, '''was... to sit... under the beam.''' The beam would come down, some nucl ...

...onductive diffusion of heat is now taught to every student of mathematical physics. ''Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur'' was edited and republished, with corr ...of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics. ...

...of the Physical Society. Beginning in 1906 he was on the advisory board of physics at the Carnegie Institution in Washington state. He died in Providence, Rho :See also "[[The Mathematician in Modern Physics]]" ...

...e electromagnetic force usually exhibits an electromagnetic [[Force field (physics)|field]], such as an electric field, magnetic field, or light. The remainin ...and the other equally profound theories of an earlier date. These crucial experiments contributed by [[Heinrich Hertz|Hertz]] (1887, et seq.) showed that electro ...

...tical Institute, University of Oxford, famous for his work in mathematical physics, [[cosmology]], general relativity, and his musings on the nature of consci ...e commented to me and they said perhaps I could use this book for a course Physics for Poets or whatever it is if it didn't have all that contentious stuff ab ...

...]] a '''[[w:Force field (physics)|force field]]''' is a type of [[w:Field (physics)|physical field]] which describes a {{w|non-contact force}} acting on a par ...and the other equally profound theories of an earlier date. These crucial experiments contributed by [[Heinrich Hertz|Hertz]] (1887, et seq.) showed that electro ...

...cceeded in producing electric vibrations by direct electrical methods. His experiments are the basis of our {{w|wireless telegraphy}}.<!--p. 35--> ...t theoretic ideas, suggested by experiment and themselves suggesting fresh experiments, a whole mass of isolated and even trivial phenomena are welded together in ...

...as one might have in a laboratory or in space. In engineering and applied physics on the other hand, vacuum refers to any space in which the pressure is lowe ...omic theory, which has served as the scaffolding for the edifice of modern physics and chemistry, has been quietly dismissed. I cannot discover that any conte ...

...of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics. ...e de la Chaleur''. This work marks an epoch in the history of mathematical physics. "[[w:Fourier series|Fourier's series]]" constitutes its gem. By this resea ...

...44-145,] and in {{w|Richard Glazebrook}}, ''James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics'' (1896) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hbcEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA39 pp. 39-40. ..., agrees so exactly with the velocity of light calculated from the optical experiments of [[w:Hippolyte Fizeau|M. Fizeau]], that '''we can scarcely avoid the conc ...

...r]]''', meaning light-bearing aether or ether, was postulated by classical physics theories as a medium for the propagation light though empty space. ** Sarah C. Alexander, ''Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable'' (2015) ...

...edy, has continually placed at my disposal the results not only of special experiments, but of his wide practical experience. The curves figured in the Appendix, ...metal or wood, but any "springy body" whatever. Thus after describing his experiments he writes:<br /><blockquote>From all which it is very evident that the Rule ...

...s''-channel, a fact which is potentially important in high-energy neutrino experiments and conceivably relevant in explaining the recently reported underground mu ...e journal|title=Charged scalar field and quantum number violations|journal=Physics Letters B|volume=161|issue=1-3|year=1985|pages=141–145|issn=03702693|doi=10 ...

** [[Richard Feynman]], ''The Feynman Lectures on Physics'', Vol. I, Ch. 7. The Theory of Gravitation ** [[Richard Feynman]], ''The Feynman Lectures on Physics'', Vol. I, Ch. 15. The Special Theory of Relativity ...

* '''Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, [[Nicole Oresme]], of the fourteenth century.''' In a * Although the classic theoretical foundation of distance measurement in physics is the 'rigid rod', '''nearly all distances''' in surveying, whether terres ...