List of physics topics A-E

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Abbe number
• Abbe, Ernst
• Absolute zero
• Accelerating universe
• Acceleration
• Acoustic theory
• Action (physics)
• Active laser medium
• Adiabatic process
• Aether theory
• Aharonov-Bohm effect
• Albany High Energy Physics Group
• Alcubierre metric
• Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
• Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich
• Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
• Alpha particle
• Alpher, Ralph
• Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory
• Alvarez, Luis Walter
• Amagat's law
• Amorphous silicon
• Ampere
• Ampere, Andre Marie
• Ampère, André-Marie
• Ampere's law
• Anderson, Carl David
• Anderson, Philip Warren
• Ångström, Anders Jonas
• Angular frequency
• Angular momentum
• Angular velocity
• Annihilation operator
• Antenna theory
• Antiferromagnetism
• Antimatter
• Antiparticle
• Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
• Appleton, Edward
• Application of tensor theory in engineering science
• Applied mathematics
• Applied physics
• Arago, François Jean Dominique
• Archimedes
• Archimedes' "mechanical method
• Area
• Argand
• Argand, Jean-Robert
• Aristotle
• Arrhenius, Svante
• Aston, Francis William
• Astronomy
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Astrophysics
• Atkinson, Robert
• Atom
• Atomic clock
• Atomic force microscopy
• Atomic mass unit
• Atomic nucleus
• Atomic number
• Atomic physics
• International Atomic Time
• Atomic units
• Atomic weight
• Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics
• Avogadro, Amedeo

B

• Babinet's principle
• Baez, John
• Balmer, Johann
• Balmer line
• Bandgap
• Bardeen, John
• Barkla, Charles Glover
• Barn (unit)
• Barycenter
• Baryon
• Basov, Nicolay Gennadiyevich
• BCS theory
• Becquerel, Henri
• Bednorz, J. Georg
• Bekenstein, Jacob
• Bell inequalities
• Bell's inequality
• Bell, John Stewart
• Bernoulli, Daniel
• Bernoulli, James
• Bernoulli, Johann
• Bernoulli's theorem
• Berry phase
• Bessel function
• Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Beta particle
• Bethe, Hans
• Big Bang
• Big Crunch
• Binding energy
• Binnig, Gerd
• Biophysics
• Biot-Savart law
• Biot, Jean-Baptist
• Bipolar transistor
• Black body
• Blackbody
• Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
• Black hole
• Black hole thermodynamics
• Bloch, Felix
• Bloembergen, Nicolaas
• Bohm, David
• Bohm interpretation
• Bohr model
• Bohr radius
• Bohr, Aage Niels
• Bohr, Niels
• Boltzmann constant
• Boltzmann, Ludwig
• Born, Max
• Boscovich, Rudjer Josip
• Bose-Einstein condensate
• Bose-Einstein statistics
• Bose, Satyendra Nath
• Boson
• Bothe, Walther
• Boussinesq approximation
• Boyle's law
• Boyle, Robert
• Bradley, James
• Bra-ket notation
• Bragg's law
• Bragg, Sir William Henry
• Bragg, William Lawrence
• Brattain, Walter Houser
• Braun, Karl Ferdinand
• Bravais lattice
• Brewster, David
• Brewster's angle
• Bridgman, Percy Williams
• Briggs, Henry
• Brockhouse, Bertram N
• Broglie, Louis-Victor de
• Brownian motion
• Bubble chamber
• Bucket argument
• Bullialdus, Ismael
• Buoyancy

C

• C-symmetry
• Calabi-Yau spaces
• Caloric theory
• Candle
• Canonical commutation relation
• Canonical distribution
• Capra, Fritjof
• Carnot, Sadi
• Cartesian coordinate system
• Cartesian product
• Casimir effect
• Casimir, Hendrik
• Cathode ray
• Cathodoluminescence
• Causality
• Cavendish experiment
• Cavendish, Henry
• Celestial mechanics
• Center of gravity
• Center of mass
• Centrifugal force
• Centripetal force
• Centroid
• CERN
• Chadwick, James
• Chamberlain, Owen
• Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
• Chandrasekhar limit
• Charge
• Charles' law
• Charpak, Georges
• Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich
• Chemical potential
• Cherenkov effect
• Cherenkov-Vavilov effect
• Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich
• Chladni, Ernst
• CHSH inequality
• Chu, Steven
• Circular dichroism
• Circular polarization
• Classical mechanics
• Clapeyron, Émile
• Clausius, Rudolf
• Cloud chamber
• Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
• Cockcroft, John
• Coefficients of potential
• Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
• Coherence length
• Cold fusion
• Collision
• Color charge
• Color force
• Commutator
• Compton, Arthur Holly
• Compressible flow
• Compton effect
• Computational physics
• Condensed matter physics
• Conservation law
• Conservation of energy
• Conservation of mass
• Conservation of momentum
• Conservative force
• Counterfactual definiteness
• Continuity equation
• Continuum mechanics
• Continuum postulate
• Conversion of units
• Cooper pair
• Cooper, Leon Neil
• Coordinate system
• Copenhagen interpretation
• Copernicus, Nicolaus
• Coriolis effect
• Coriolis force
• Cornell, Eric A
• Cornu, Marie Alfred
• Corpuscular theory
• Correspondence principle
• Coulomb
• Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de
• Coulomb's law
• CP-symmetry
• CPT theorem
• CPT-symmetry
• Creation operator
• Crionin, James Watson
• Crookes, William
• Crookes radiometer
• Cross section
• Cryogenics
• Crystal
• Crystal optics
• Crystal lattice
• Crystal structure
• Crystallography
• Curie point
• Curie, Marie
• Curie, Pierre
• Curvature
• Curvature tensor
• Curve
• Cyclotron
• Cyclotron radiation
• Cylindrical coordinate
• Cylindrical coordinate system
• Czochralski process

D

• Dalén, Nils Gustaf
• Dalton, John
• Dalton's law
• Darcy-Weisbach equation
• Davis Jr., Raymond
• Davisson, Clinton Joseph
• de Broglie, Louis-Victor
• de Broglie hypothesis
• de Broglie wavelength
• de Donder, Théophile
• Debye, Peter
• Debye length
• Debye shielding
• Decay mode
• de Gennes, Pierre-Gilles
• Degenerate matter
• Dehmelt, Hans G
• Delbruck scattering
• Density matrix
• Derivation of the partition function
• Descartes, René
• Deutsch, David
• Dewar, James
• DeWitt, Bryce
• Diamagnetism
• Dielectric
• Differential equations of mathematical physics
• Differential geometry
• Diffraction
• Diffusion
• Dimension
• Dimensional analysis
• Dimensionless number
• Diode
• Dipole
• Dirac
• Dirac equation
• Dirac, Paul
• Direct bandgap
• Dispersion
• Dispersion (optics)
• Displacement
• Distance
• Divergence theorem
• Doppler effect
• Doppler, Christiaan
• Double pendulum
• Double-slit experiment
• Drift velocity
• Dual space
• Duality
• Dulong-Petit law
• Dynamical system
• Dynamical systems and chaos theory
• Dynamical variable
• Dynamics
• Dyson, Freeman

E

• Earth
• Effective mass
• Ehrenfest, Paul
• Eigenvector
• Einstein
• Einstein field equations
• Einstein notation
• Einstein shift
• Einstein, Albert
• Elasticity
• Electric charge
• Electric field
• Electric field screening
• Electrical charge
• Electrical circuit
• Electrical conductance
• Electrical conduction
• Electrical conductivity
• Electrical dipole
• Electrical energy
• Electrical engineering
• Electrical force
• Electrical generator
• Electrical length
• Electrical monopole
• Electrical network
• Electrical phenomenon
• Electrical potential
• Electrical quadrupole
• Electrical resistance
• Electrical resistivity
• Electricity
• Electrodynamics
• Electroluminescence
• Electromagnetic field
• Electromagnetic induction
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Electromagnetism
• Electromotive force
• Electron
• Electron configuration
• Electron hole
• Electron microscope
• Electron volt
• Electronic transition
• Electronics
• Electronuclear force
• Electrostatic discharge
• Electrostatics
• Electroweak force
• Electroweak theory
• Elementary charge
• Ellipsoid
• Elliptical polarization
• Ellis, Charles Drummond
• Emergent complexity
• Energy
• Energy efficiency
• Energy level
• Engineering
• Enthalpy
• Entropy
• Eotvos, Roland von
• EPR paradox
• Equation of motion
• Equation of state
• Equations of state/History
• Equipartition theorem
• Esaki, Leo
• Essential singularity
• Euclid
• Euclidean space
• Euler, Leonhard
• Euler angles
• Event horizon
• Everett many-worlds interpretation
• Everett, Hugh
• Examples of electrical phenomena
• Exchange particle
• Exciton
• Exotic atom
• Exotic matter
• Extensive variable