What is Physics?
Study of the physical world from the very small to the very large:
Classical mechanics (forces, energy, motion)
Electrodynamics (electricity, magnetism, light)
Quantum mechanics (tiny things)
Thermodynamics (heat, disorder)
Modern areas of study:
nuclear, particle physics
atomic, molecular, optical physics
condensed matter physics
plasma physics, non-linear dynamics (chaos)
chemical physics, biological physics, geophysics, medical physics,
acoustics, nanophysics, applied physics...
astrophysics, cosmology
computational physics
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