What is the difference between biophysics and physics?
biophysics | physics | Derived terms |
The interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology.
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The branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
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Of or pertaining to the physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied in physics.
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Physics is a derived term of biophysics.
As nouns the difference between biophysics and physics
is that biophysics is the interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology while physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.As a verb physics is
third-person singular of physic.biophysics
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* ("biophysics" on Wikipedia)physics
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* physicks (obsolete)Noun
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- Newtonian physics''' was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum '''physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.
- The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.