Psychology vs Physics - What's the difference?
psychology | physics |
(uncountable) The study of the human mind.
(uncountable) The study of human behavior.
(uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
(countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
* 1970 , Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth , page 8:
* 1969 , Victor Alba, The Latin Americans , page 42:
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)
As nouns the difference between psychology and physics
is that psychology is (uncountable) the study of the human mind while physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy or physics can be .As a verb physics is
(physic).psychology
English
(wikipedia psychology)Noun
- For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
- In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
Derived terms
* * *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.