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2006-10-10 16:28:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

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The attempt to explain how mass reacts to forces.

2006-10-10 16:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Curious 6 · 1 0

Physics is the science that allows us to understand the mechanics of our planet, stars and universe. It helps us understand things as simple as why a pencil makes a mark on paper, to how to build a bridge; why some rocks roll down a hill easier than others; how stars are made, and how to build an atomic bomb.
Physics is an really large science, and nobody is an expert at all of it. Some people spend their entire lives just studying one problem, like "what is the big bang?"
If you want to know how cars speed up or slow down, that's physics. If you want to know how electricity moves through a wire, that's physics.
You could call it the science of 'everything', and that would be really close to the truth.

2006-10-10 16:36:11 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0 0

It started out with mass and forces, but OH NO it has turned in to all kinds of things. It is the NEW science these days. Physics explains you on an atomic level. How you walk, talk, breath, respond to light from the sun, gravity, super novas and so MUCH more.

Physics is the empowerment of man to understand math as it applies to his surroundings on earth and in space.

Good Luck

2006-10-10 16:41:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

physics is a science that deals with forces such as gravity and mass. You could go on to try to explain why black holes exist. That gets complicated when you try to explain a star that has collapsed to the point of infinite gravity with infinite lack of mass. It bends light waves to the point to which you can't see the black hole. Try to devide a number by 0, It does not work and you are looking at infinity.

2006-10-10 16:45:58 · answer #4 · answered by cowboybabeeup 4 · 0 0

Physics (from the Greek, φύσις (phúsis), "nature" and φυσική (phusiké), "knowledge of nature") is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter and energy. That is, physics deals with the elementary constituents of the Universe and their interactions, as well as the analysis of systems which are best understood in terms of these fundamental principles.

Introduction
Physics attempts to describe the natural world by the application of the scientific method. In contrast, natural philosophy, its counterpart which had also been called "physics" (earlier physike) from classical times up to at least the separation of physics from philosophy as a positive science in the 19th century, is the study of the changing world by philosophy. Mixed questions, of which solutions can be attempted through the applications of both disciplines (e.g. the divisibility of the atom) can involve natural philosophy in physics (the science) and vice versa.

Discoveries in physics find applications throughout the other natural sciences as they regard the basic constituents of the Universe. Some of the phenomena studied in physics, such as the phenomenon of conservation of energy, are common to all material systems. These are often referred to as laws of physics. Others, such as superconductivity, stem from these laws, but are not laws themselves because they only appear in some systems. Physics is often said to be the "fundamental science" (chemistry is sometimes included), because each of the other sciences (biology, chemistry, geology, material science, engineering, medicine etc.) deals with particular types of material systems that obey the laws of physics. For example, chemistry is the science of matter (such as atoms and molecules) and the chemical substances that they form in the bulk. The structure, reactivity, and properties of a chemical compound are determined by the properties of the underlying molecules, which can be described by areas of physics such as quantum mechanics (called in this case quantum chemistry), thermodynamics, and electromagnetism. (Refer to Branches of physics)

Physics is closely related to mathematics, which provides the logical framework in which physical laws can be precisely formulated and their predictions quantified. Physical definitions, models and theories are invariably expressed using mathematical relations. A key difference between physics and mathematics is that because physics is ultimately concerned with descriptions of the material world, it tests its theories by observations (called experiments), whereas mathematics is concerned with abstract logical patterns not limited by those observed in the real world (because the real world is limited in the number of dimensions and in many other ways it does not have to correspond to richer mathematical structures). The distinction, however, is not always clear-cut. There is a large area of research intermediate between physics and mathematics, known as mathematical physics.

Physics is also closely related to engineering and technology. For instance, electrical engineering is the study of the practical application of electromagnetism. Statics, a subfield of mechanics, is responsible for the building of bridges. Further, physicists, or practitioners of physics, invent and design processes and devices, such as the transistor, whether in basic or applied research. Experimental physicists design and perform experiments with particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, telescopes, barometers, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, spectrometers, lasers, and other equipment.

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2006-10-11 00:32:56 · answer #5 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0 0

The answer to the unresolved questions.

The prediction towards the unpredictable regime with prove of mathematical logic and rules

2006-10-10 16:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Logic 3 · 0 0

physics is the activity of trying to find the rules by which nature plays

2006-10-10 16:32:08 · answer #7 · answered by      7 · 0 0

i know it.
physics is the branch of science which deals with study of physical nature and the different laws it obeys.

2006-10-10 16:36:15 · answer #8 · answered by whatsurproblem_ashis 1 · 0 0

physics, if i recall correctly, studies the movement and transfer of energy.

this involves gravity, magnets, electricity, etc.

2006-10-10 16:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by Boba Fett 3 · 0 0

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." -- Ernest Rutherford

2006-10-10 18:42:29 · answer #10 · answered by Ace of Spades 2 · 0 0

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