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Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, with its main goal being to understand how the universe behaves. A scientist who specializes in the field of physics is called a physicist. Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines and, through its inclusion of astronomy, perhaps the oldest. Over much of the past two millennia, physics, chemistry, biology, and certain branches of mathematics were a part of natural philosophy, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century these natural sciences emerged as unique research endeavors in their own right. Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms studied by other sciences and suggest new avenues of research in these and other academic disciplines such as mathematics and philosophy. Advances in physics often enable new technologies. For example, advances in the understanding of electromagnetism, solid-state physics, and nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products that have dramatically transformed modern-day society, such as television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons; advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization; and advances in mechanics inspired the development of calculus. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about physics 69
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Newton kagaku meicho zukan
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Engineering Physics
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The Book of Dust
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The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far
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The Order of Time
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Forces of Nature
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Time Reborn
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A Universe from Nothing
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Wonders of the Universe (book)
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BCS: 50 Years
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Wonders of the Solar System
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Quantum Aspects of Life
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Stochastic Resonance
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Physics for Future Presidents
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Cosmic Jackpot
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Categories—On the Beauty of Physics
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The Physics of Basketball
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The Physics of Superheroes
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The Cosmic Landscape
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Parallel Worlds
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Classical Mechanics
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Einstein's Cosmos
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Studies in inhomogeneous cosmological models
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Physik als anarchistische Textpraxis
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Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond
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Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
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Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines
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Visions (book)
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The Nature of Space and Time
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His Dark Materials
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Atome, Atomkerne, Elementarteilchen : mit Übungsaufgaben ; mit 30 Tabellen
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