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Physics (From: Physik (Epist Mē)

Physics is the natural science that studies matter, energy, force, and their interaction, with the goal of understanding how the universe behaves. It is one of the oldest academic disciplines and includes the study of astronomy. Physics intersects with many other research areas and often enables new technologies through advances that explain other scientific disciplines and inspire new areas of mathematics and philosophy. New understandings in physics have led to developments like computers, appliances, weapons, and industrialization through discoveries in electromagnetism, nuclear physics, and thermodynamics.

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Physics (From: Physik (Epist Mē)

Physics is the natural science that studies matter, energy, force, and their interaction, with the goal of understanding how the universe behaves. It is one of the oldest academic disciplines and includes the study of astronomy. Physics intersects with many other research areas and often enables new technologies through advances that explain other scientific disciplines and inspire new areas of mathematics and philosophy. New understandings in physics have led to developments like computers, appliances, weapons, and industrialization through discoveries in electromagnetism, nuclear physics, and thermodynamics.

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Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη), translit. physikḗ (epistḗmē), lit.

'knowledge of nature', from


φύσις phýsis "nature")[1][2][3] is the natural science that studies matter[4], its motion, and behavior through space
and time, and that studies the related entities of energy and force.[5] Physics is one of the most fundamental
scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.[a][6][7][8]

Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines and, through its inclusion of astronomy, perhaps the oldest.[9]
Over much of the past two millennia, physics, chemistry, biology, and certain branches of mathematics, were a
part of natural philosophy, but during the scientific revolution in the 17th century these natural sciences
emerged as unique research endeavors in their own right.[b] Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas
of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics which are not rigidly
defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms studied by other sciences[6] and
suggest new avenues of research in academic disciplines such as mathematics and philosophy.

Advances in physics often enable advances in new technologies. For example, advances in the understanding of
electromagnetism and nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products that have dramatically
transformed modern-day society, such as television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons;[6]
advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization; and advances in mechanics inspired
the development of calculus.

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