English-Swedish translations for physics

• fysik en
  Här är det fysik som gäller och inte rätt.What counts here is physics and not the law.
  Själv skulle jag till exempel studera astronomi, andra kanske väljer fysik eller geografi.I, for instance, would study astronomy, others might study physics or geography.
  Färre och färre studenter är intresserade av fysik, kemi, matematik och biologi.Fewer and fewer students are interested in physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology.

Definition of physics

• The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy
• The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied scientifically

Examples

• 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.

Related words

• metaphysics
• geophysics
• astrophysics
• pataphysics
• biophysics
• microphysics
• macrophysics
• psychophysics
• radiophysics