What is the difference between geophysics and physics?
geophysics | physics | Derived terms |
A branch of earth science dealing with the physical processes and phenomena occurring in the earth and in its vicinity.
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.
(physic)
Physics is a derived term of geophysics.
As nouns the difference between geophysics and physics
is that geophysics is a branch of earth science dealing with the physical processes and phenomena occurring in the earth and in its vicinity 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.geophysics
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* geophysical * geophysicistSee also
* geomagnetism * meteorology * oceanography * seismologyphysics
English
(wikipedia physics)Alternative forms
* 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.