This is an index of Everything2's physics nodes,
aiming to catalogue the site's extensive but patchy physics coverage. For a general overview of physics and its various fields, please see Purvis's writeup above this one.
Those subjects marked with a (*) here are inadequately covered, or missing entirely; you are strongly encouraged to fill in these gaps. Please /msg Oolong and/or E2_Science if you do, or if you have any other additions or comments to make.
- Classical mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Gravity
- Electromagnetism - see Maxwell's Equations
- Optics (*)
- Plasma physics
- Astronomy and Astrophysics (see also separate astronomy index)
- Observational Astronomy: tools and concepts
- The Celestial Sphere and constellations
- day, month, season, and year
- solstice and equinox
- ecliptic/celestial equator
- Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
- analemma
- coordinated universal time/UTC, Greenwich Mean Time, julian date
- mean solar day, siderial period,
synodic period
- rotation and revolution
- phase of the moon
- magnitude, apparent magnitude, absolute magnitude, color
- altazimuth coordinates, zenith, nadir,
celestial horizon, hour angle (*)
- right ascension, declination, equatorial coordinates (*), and galactic coordinates (*)
- parallax, precession, proper motion
- telescope: refracting telescope (*),
Newtonian telescope, Dobsonian telescope, observatory
- photometry: photographic plate, photometer, photomultiplier tube, CCD
- spectroscopy: spectrograph, prism, diffraction grating, grism (*), echelle (*), Fabry-Perot etalon
- Fields of astronomy
- The solar system and planetary science (*)
- The Anatomy of the Sun: photosphere, chromosphere, corona, sunspot, plage, solar prominence, solar flare
- heliosphere, heliopause, termination shock
- protostar, snow line, Jovian planets
- Bode's Law
- asteroid belt,
Trans-Neptunian object/Kuiper belt/Quaoar,
Oort cloud, comets
- zodiacal light and gegenschein
- eclipse and occultation
- atmospheres: hydrostatic equilibrium, Jeans escape
- Stellar astronomy and astrophysics
- Important stellar astrophysics
- electromagnetic radiation: radio wave, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray,
gamma ray
- opacity, radiative transfer
- blackbody radiation, bremsstrahlung,
synchrotron radiation, Compton scattering,
emission line
- hydrostatic equilibrium
- equation of state, polytrope, Saha equation (*)
- convection
- proton-proton chain, CNO cycle
- radiation pressure, Eddington luminosity,
stellar wind
- Newton's Law of Gravitation
- orbital mechanics, Lagrange points,
mass function
- Stellar classification: stellar spectra,
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, OBAFGKMRNS
- Population I star, Population II star,
Population III stars
- protostar, Kelvin-Helmholtz timescale
- brown dwarf, red dwarf
- main sequence
- blue straggler
- helium flash, horizontal branch
- red giant
- planetary nebula
- white dwarf
- variable star
- helioseismology, asteroseismology, GONG (*),
Whole Earth Telescope
- T Tauri star
- delta Scuti
- Cepheid variable, cepheid distance scale
- RR Lyrae
- Mira
- Eta Carinae, P Cygni, Wolf-Rayet star
- nova, dwarf nova, cataclysmic variable, polar
- X-ray binary: Low-mass X-ray binary/High-mass X-ray binary, Scorpius X-1, Cygnus X-1, microquasar
- accretion disk, boundary layer, event horizon, Schwarzchild radius,
Hawking radiation, Blandford Znajek process
- supernova, type Ia supernova, type II supernova, quark star,
neutron star, black hole, gamma ray burst, hypernova
- Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
- Galaxy
- Milky Way
- open cluster, globular cluster
- nebulae: dark nebula,
emission nebula, reflection nebula,
planetary nebula
- zone of avoidance, interstellar medium, neutral hydrogen emission
- Baade's Window, bulge
- The Great Debate
- disk galaxy, Spiral galaxy, elliptical galaxy, irregular galaxy (*),
dwarf spheroidal galaxy (*), ring galaxy/Hoag's object
- Hubble classification system,
Yerkes classification system
- Magellanic Cloud, Local Group, M31/Andromeda
- low surface brightness galaxy
- Tully-Fisher relation,
Dn-sigma relation (*), Fundamental plane (*),
virial theorem
- Active Galaxies: Active Galactic Nuclei/AGN, Seyfert Galaxy, quasar,
BL Lacertae objects, blazar, black hole,
Blandford Znajek process, astrophysical jets,
radio galaxy
- supercluster, Local supercluster,
Virgo supercluster, Abell Cluster,
Coma Cluster
- Cosmology
- Measuring distances in astronomy
- big bang,inflation/cosmological inflation
(or steady-state cosmology (*)/Fred Hoyle)
- The first three minutes/big bang nucleosynthesis, deuterium
- Microwave Background Radiation: recombination, anisotropy, Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
- gravitational lensing, multiply-imaged quasar
- redshift/z
- Lyman alpha forest
- dark matter: MACHO, WIMP, neutrino
- Large Scale Structure, Great Wall
- expanding universe, Hubble's Law, Hubble constant, cosmological constant,
Einstein Static Cosmology, dark energy
- How the universe will end, The Heat Death of the Universe
- Special relativity
- General relativity
- Quantum mechanics
- Condensed matter physics - see also Solid state physics
- Low-temperature physics (*)
- Nuclear physics
- Particle physics
- Quantum field theory
- Grand Unification Theory/Grand Unified Theory
- Waves
Compiled chiefly by Oolong, Grzcyrgba and Blush Response, with thanks to the rest of the E2science group.