Classical Physics Glossary
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This is a glossary of classical physics. It is some of the
most common terms in classical physics and how they are used.
A
- Acceleration - the rate of change of velocity with
respect to time
- Ampère's law - relates a circulating magnetic
field to an electric current passing through a loop
- Atom - smallest unit of a chemical element, the limit of classical
physics on the small length scales
B
- Boltzmann constant - a physical constant relating
temperature to energy
C
- Chaos theory - the study of processes in nonlinear
dynamical systems, such as the Butterfly effect
- Classical mechanics - a set of laws describing the
motion of bodies and their aggregations
- Coulomb's Law - the force acting between charged
bodies
- Crystal - a regular ordering of atoms, molecules,
or ions
- Choke coil - an inductance used in an AC circuit
to control current
D
- Determinism - classical physics is largely deterministic
- Dip(δ) - the angle which the direction of total
intensity of earth's magnetic field makes with a horizontal line in
the magnetic meridian at that place.
E
- Elastic collision - a collision during which no
kinetic energy is lost
- Electric current - the flow of electric charge through
an object
- Electrical resistance - a measure of the degree
to which an object opposes the passage of electric current
- Energy - a measure of being able to do mechanical
work
- Electromotive force - the amount of energy gained
per unit charge that passes through a device in the opposite direction
to the electric field existing across that device
- Eddy currents - changing magnetic flux linked with
metal plate produces induced current which flow in closed paths throughout
the body of the metal
F
- Force - an external cause for acceleration in a
physical system
- Free energy - the amount of mechanical work that
can be extracted from a system
G
- Gravity - an attractive force between particles
with mass
- Geomagnetism - the branch of physics which deals
with the study of earth's magnetic field
H
- Hamiltonian mechanics - a reformulation of Lagrangian
mechanics
I
- Ideal gas - a gas consisting of identical particles
of negligible volume, with no intermolecular forces
- Inertia - a historical concept used for describing
massive, moving objects
J
- Joule's law - equation for the heat generated by
a current flowing in a conductor
K
- Kinetic energy - energy due to motion
L
- Lagrangian - a function describing the equations
of motion for a system
- Lagrangian mechanics - an abstract reformulation
of classical mechanics
- Light - electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength
visible to the human eye
M
- Macroscopic - attribute used for objects and processes
observable by the naked eye
- Mass - a measure of the amount of matter
- Maxwell's equations - four equations that describe
electric and magnetic fields, and their interaction with matter
- Molecule - a group of atoms joined by chemical bonds
- Momentum - the product of mass and velocity
- Magnetic field - the space around a magnet or a
current within which its magnetic influence can be detected or experienced.
N
- Newton's laws of motion - the three laws of Isaac
Newton, published in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in
1687
- Newtonian mechanics - the first formulation of classical
mechanics
O
- Ohm's law - relationship between the current flowing
in a conductor and the voltage difference between its ends
P
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - a
three-volume work published by Isaac Newton in 1687, introducing his
famous three laws of motion
- Potential energy - energy stored when doing work
against a force
Q
- Quantum mechanics - the theory that separates classical
and modern physics
R
- Resonance - the tendency of a system to absorb more
energy at its resonance frequency in a given process
S
- Semiclassical - refers to a combination of classical
mechanics and quantum mechanics
- Special theory of relativity - a theory published
in 1905 by Albert Einstein that replaced Newton's notions of space and
time
- Statistical mechanics - the application of mathematical
statistics to the collective motions of large populations of particles
T
- Temperature - the average kinetic energy of molecules
- Thermodynamics - the study of thermal processes
in physical systems
U
- Ultraviolet catastrophe - a false prediction made
by classical mechanics preceding quantum mechanics
V
- Velocity - the rate of change of position with respect
to time and speed
W
- Wave - a disturbance that propagates in a periodically
repeating fashion, often transferring energy
- Work - energy transferred by a force
X
- X-rays - a form of ionizing electromagnetic radiation
and magnetical ambiance's
Y
- Young's modulus - a measure of the stiffness of
a body or material
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