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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)
(physics) The science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
As nouns the difference between physics and thermodynamics
is that physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy while thermodynamics is the science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.As a verb physics
is third-person singular of physic.physics
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(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.