What is the difference between physicks and physics?
physicks | physics | Alternative forms |
The branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
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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 alternative form of physicks.
As nouns the difference between physicks and physics
is that physicks is obsolete form of physics while physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.As verbs the difference between physicks and physics
is that physicks is third-person singular of physick while physics is third-person singular of physic.physics
English
(wikipedia physics)Alternative forms
* physicks (obsolete)Noun
(-)citation, passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
- 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.
