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    Physics is the study of natural phenomena and the fundamental rules that govern the universe. It seeks to understand and describe nature at the deepest and most detailed level possible. The goal is to discover the basic laws of nature from observable events and use that knowledge to predict, modify, and control phenomena. Physics studies both macroscopic phenomena visible to the naked eye, like planetary motion, as well as microscopic phenomena too small to see, like atomic and nuclear processes. Some of the fundamental forces that govern nature include gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces. Physics aims to achieve a unified understanding of these fundamental forces.

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    Physics is the study of natural phenomena and the fundamental rules that govern the universe. It seeks to understand and describe nature at the deepest and most detailed level possible. The goal is to discover the basic laws of nature from observable events and use that knowledge to predict, modify, and control phenomena. Physics studies both macroscopic phenomena visible to the naked eye, like planetary motion, as well as microscopic phenomena too small to see, like atomic and nuclear processes. Some of the fundamental forces that govern nature include gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces. Physics aims to achieve a unified understanding of these fundamental forces.

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    Physics is the study of natural phenomena and the fundamental rules that govern the universe. It seeks to understand and describe nature at the deepest and most detailed level possible. The goal is to discover the basic laws of nature from observable events and use that knowledge to predict, modify, and control phenomena. Physics studies both macroscopic phenomena visible to the naked eye, like planetary motion, as well as microscopic phenomena too small to see, like atomic and nuclear processes. Some of the fundamental forces that govern nature include gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces. Physics aims to achieve a unified understanding of these fundamental forces.

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    physical world
    What is Physics?
    The word science originates from the latin verb Scientia meaning 'to know'.

    Science is a systematic attempt to understand natural phenomena in as such


    detail and depth as possible, and use the knowledge so gained to predict,
    modify and control phenomena.

    Science is ever dynamic.

    Physics comes from a Greek word meaning nature.

    Mathematics is the language of physics.

    Physics is concerned w/ the basic rules which are applicable to all domains of
    life. Revealing these laws of nature from the observed events is physics.

    What is reductionism?
    A related effort is to derive the properties of a bigger, more complex,
    sysytem from the properties and interactions of its constituent simpler parts.
    This approac is called reductionism.

    Scope and Excitement of Physics


    We can get some ideas of the scope of physics by looking as its various sub-
    discplines.

    Basically there are two domains and interest: macroscopic and microscopic

    macroscopic
    -phenomenon at lab
    -terrestrial
    -astronomical scales

    microscopic

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    -atomic
    -molecular
    -nuclear

    Physics, Technology and Society


    Sometimes technology gives rise to new physics, at other times physics
    generates new technology.

    physics is the study of nature and natural phenomenon.

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    Fundamental Forces in Nature

    Gravitational Force

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    The gravitational force us the force of mutual attraction b/w any two
    objects by virtue of their masses. It is a universal force.

    Every object experiences this force due to every other object in the
    universe

    It plays a key role in the large-scale phenonmena of the universe, such as


    formation and evolution of stars, galaxies and galactic clusters.

    Electromagentic Force

    Eleectromagenteic force is the force b/w charged particles.

    does not need any intervening medium.

    It is enormously strong compared to gravity.

    Electromagentic force governs the structure of atoms and molecules.

    E.F can be attractive and repulsive.

    Strong Nuclear Force

    The strong nuclear force binds p and n in a nucleus.

    The strong nuclear force is the strongest of all fundamental forces

    It is charge independent and acts equally b/w a p and p, a n and n and p


    and n.

    It is reponsible for the stability of nuclei.

    Weak Nuclear Force

    The weak nuclear force appears only in certain nuclear processes sch as
    the β-decay of nucleus.

    in β-decay the nucleus emits and e and uncharged particle called


    neutrino.

    Towards Unification of Forces

    Nature of Physical Laws

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    The concept of energy is central to physics and the expressions for energy
    can be written for every physical system.

    The general law of conservations of energy is true for all forces and for any
    kind of transformation b/w diff. forms of energy.

    Energy is a scalar quantity. really scalars.


    But all conserved quantities are not necessarily scalars.

    Symmetries of space and time and other abstract symmetries play a central
    role in modern theories of fundamental forces in nature.

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