Physics vs Iatrophysics - What's the difference?
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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.
(physic)
(obsolete) The physics of medicine or of medical and surgical treatment.
(obsolete) The treatment of diseases by physical or mechanic means.
As nouns the difference between physics and iatrophysics
is that physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy or physics can be while iatrophysics is (obsolete) the physics of medicine or of medical and surgical treatment.As a verb physics
is (physic).physics
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(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.