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physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time


along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is one of the main[disputed discuss


analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines


perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy. 


Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy 


along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology


However during the scientific revolution in the 17th century,


 the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right...


Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry



and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined


New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms of other sciences 



while opening new avenues of research in areas such as mathematics and philosophy.

Physics also makes significant contributions through advances in new technologies that arise from theoretical breakthroughs. 



For example, advances in the understanding of electromagnetism or 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; advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization, and advances in mechanics inspired the development of calculus-

 
Ontology is a prerequisite for physics, but not for mathematics. It means physics is ultimately concerned with descriptions of the real world, while mathematics is concerned with abstract patterns, even beyond the real world.

Physics
statements are synthetic, while mathematical statements are analytic. Mathematics contains hypotheses, while physics contains theories.

Mathematics
statements have to be only logically true, while predictions of physics statements must match observed and experimental data.

Lightning is an electric current



Experimental physics expands, and is expanded by, engineering and technology. Experimental physicists involved in basic research design and perform experiments with equipment such as particle accelerators and lasers, whereas those involved in applied research often work in industry developing technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transistors. Feynman has noted that experimentalists may seek areas which are not well-explored by theorists.

Scope and aims
Physics involves modeling the natural world with theory, usually quantitative. Here, the path of a particle is modeled with the mathematics of calculus to explain its behavior: the purview of the branch of physics known as mechanics.

Physics covers a wide range of phenomena, from elementary particles (such as quarks, neutrinos, and electrons) to the largest superclusters of galaxies. Included in these phenomena are the most basic objects composing all other things. Therefore, physics is sometimes called the "fundamental science". Physics aims to describe the various phenomena that occur in nature in terms of simpler phenomena. Thus, physics aims to both connect the things observable to humans to root causes, and then connect these causes together.


The astronaut and Earth are both in free-fall


Classical physics
Main article: Classical physics
Classical physics implemented in an acoustic engineering model of sound reflecting from an acoustic diffuser

Classical physics includes the traditional branches and topics that were recognized and well-developed before the beginning of the 20th century—classical mechanics, acoustics, optics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism.


Classical mechanics is concerned with bodies acted on by forces and bodies in motion and may be divided into statics (study of the forces on a body or bodies not subject to an acceleration), kinematics (study of motion without regard to its causes), and dynamics (study of motion and the forces that affect it); mechanics may also be divided into solid mechanics and fluid mechanics (known together as continuum mechanics), the latter include such branches as hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, and pneumatics. Acoustics is the study of how sound is produced, controlled, transmitted and received.



Important modern branches of acoustics include ultrasonics, the study of sound waves of very high frequency beyond the range of human hearing; bioacoustics the physics of animal calls and hearing, and electroacoustics, the manipulation of audible sound waves using electronics.



Optics, the study of light, is concerned not only with visible light but also with infrared and ultraviolet radiation, which exhibit all of the phenomena of visible light except visibility, e.g., reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, dispersion, and polarization of light.



Heat is a form of energy, the internal energy possessed by the particles of which a substance is composed; thermodynamics deals with the relationships between heat and other forms of energy.



Electricity and magnetism have been studied as a single branch of physics since the intimate connection between them was discovered in the early 19th century; an electric current gives rise to a magnetic field, and a changing magnetic field induces an electric current. Electrostatics deals with electric charges at rest, electrodynamics with moving charges, and magnetostatics with magnetic poles at rest.

 
 
 
 
Humanity will wait 10 years for a major trial of a different form of nuclear energy regarded as a game changer in the centuries ahead. So far man-made nuclear energy has involved fission, the release of energy with the …
The Australian · 11/23/2015
nuclear fusion
It hasn’t panned out (yet). The world’s most ambitious fusion project, the $14 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), is attempting to effectively put a star in a bottle. Originally begun in 1985 …
PBS · 12/4/2015
clean energy
This past summer a team of engineers invented a mechanical device designed to be installed on ITER, the multinational fusion machine being built in the south of France, using 3D printing and parts bought at Walmart.
News Wise · 11/23/2015
A contract between Studsvik and NRG has been signed in October regarding the qualification of a steel that presents itself as a candidate material for the blankets of future fusion reactors. This contract stems from the collaboration between Fusion for ...
4 Traders · 11/24/2015
nuclear qualification
A mechanical device designed to be installed on ITER, the multinational fusion machine being built in the south of France, has been devised using 3D printing and parts bought at Walmart. At the Princeton Plasma …
Science Daily · 11/23/2015
There are no messages on Madhurjya Parashar's profile yet. I m an electronics engineer studying in ITERbhubaneswar. #placed. #When there is a highway to hell, there also is a stairway to heaven.. depend on ur choices and decisions.
Crazy Engineers · 1 day ago
Anirban Das, a fourth-year student of Computer Science at ITER, Bhubaneswar, formed Psyche Magician, a rock band a year back. The lead vocalist, guitarist and composer of the band says music, that gives a vent to …
The New Indian Express · 11/30/2015
Harnessing the power of the Sun on Earth has long been a dream for physicists. In 2006, a team from the European Union, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States got the go-ahead to realize that ambition by building an experimental ...
Nature · 8/1/2014
However, basing on the video it is expected to be somewhat similar to the C63. Even as the upcoming Mercedes-AMG E63 is expected to feature the 4.0-iter twin-turbo V8 engine of the AMG GT and C63, it will likely …
BenzInsider · 11/25/2015
Mercedes AMG
The single largest superconductor procurement in industrial history is drawing to a successful close. An eight-year campaign to produce the superconductors for ITER's powerful magnet systems is in its final stages, with nearly 70 percent of the conductor ...
Phys.org · 9/17/2015
sciencehabit writes: The multibillion dollar ITER fusion project under construction in France will take at least an additional 6 years to complete, compared with the current schedule, a meeting of the governing council was told this week. ITER management ...
tech.slashdot.org · 11/20/2015
Two European projects are hoping to pave the way for commercially viable power generation using nuclear fusion – a breakthrough that could make a massive contribution to our energy and climate change worries. We put your questions to the scientists …
The Engineer · 11/5/2012
This first delivery provided a "concrete opportunity" to test the administrative, technical, industrial and regulatory procedures that will accompany the procurement of plant and machine components by the ITERmembers, ITER said. Shipped from the USA in ...
World Nuclear News · 9/5/2014
At the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France, components very often arrive on cranes. This isn’t the Large Hadron Collider or the International Space Station, but the biggest-ever push to create a working fusion reactor is ...
Geek · 6/16/2014
The floor upon which the biggest fusion machine in the world will rely on has been constructed. This landmark achievement marks the conclusion of the works that started in August 2010 and represent an investment of around 100 million EUR for F4E, the ...
AZoBuild · 11/5/2014
The construction of the world's largest experimental tokamak fusion reactor has reached a major milestone [Credit: ITER] The foundations of the building that will house the world’s largest experimental tokamak fusion reactor ITER have been completed with ...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology · 11/5/2014
The world's largest bid to harness the power of fusion has entered a "critical" phase in southern France. TheIter project at Cadarache in Provence is receiving the first of about one million components for its experimental reactor. Dogged by massive cost ...
BBC · 8/7/2013
The chief engineer for the U.S. ITER Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will give a project overview on Tuesday. Brad Nelson is the chief engineer for the U.S. International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Project. His Tuesday talk will be the ...
Oak Ridge Today · 3/10/2014
The world’s biggest energy research project, the $20bn ITER nuclear fusion reactor, entered a key construction phase last month, as contractors began to pour 15,000 cubic metres of concrete into a pit in the south of France. It will house a huge doughnut ...
Financial Times · 1/19/2014
Managers of the troubled ITER fusion project have announced a new schedule that is likely to push the estimated date of completion back by 6 years, to 2025, and add roughly €2 billion to the project's ballooning cost. The changes, presented at a meeting ...
Science Magazine · 11/27/2015
Arrays, and by extension iteration, are fundamental parts to any application. And like the complexity of our applications, how we use them should evolve as we gain access to new tools. New tools, like generators, for instance. First came arrays. Then we ...
Site Point · 10/19/2015
Engineering firm Larsen and Toubro (L&T) today said it has shipped its first consignment of cryostat, part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion reactor facility being developed at Cadarache in France. "L&T Heavy Engineering ...
Money Control · 10/19/2015
When ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, was launched in 1985, the plans called for a huge reactor that would demonstrate that the fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium atoms would be a source of unlimited energy. Its ...
IEEE Spectrum · 3/20/2015
News from Cadarache, France, home of the ITER project’s experimental nuclear fusion reactor, seems promising. After two years of constant delays, rocketing cost estimations and technical difficulties, the project seems poised to begin making up lost time.
Oil Price · 9/3/2013
A new video on fusion produced for the Monaco ITER International Fusion Energy Days (MIIFED) conference explains the ITER project in under 6 minutes. ITER (originally an acronym of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and Latin for “the …
The Daily Fusion · 4/10/2014
In order to reassess the ITER Research Plan for the experimental fusion reactor currently under construction in France, 21 world-leading plasma scientists plus key engineers and scientists from the ITER Organization came together at the recently completed ...
Science World Report · 10/2/2013
The ITER Council has appointed Dr. Bernard Bigot of France as the next Director-General of the ITEROrganization. Dr. Bigot who took up his duties on 5 March, succeeds Prof Osamu Motojima who had beenITER director general since July 2010. Dr. Bigot …
Nuclear Engineering International · 3/9/2015
ITER, the world's largest tokamak now under construction in France, will have over 60 diagnostic systems installed to enable plasma control, optimize plasma performance, and support machine protection. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Oak …
E Science News · 11/2/2015
It’s simple – in principle, at least. Take two forms (isotopes) of hydrogen, squash them together, and you get a helium atom and a very energetic subatomic particle called a neutron. The product of the reaction is a fraction lighter than its atomic ...
New Scientist · 10/9/2009
In 1985, then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan launched one of the unlikeliest ideas of the Cold War. Under it, the Soviet Union would team up with United States and other rivals of the day to develop nuclear fusion: the same ...
Space Daily · 5/22/2015
But a crude form of the car tech was actually around as early as 1930. The Iter Avto, which used a map on a scroll, is believed to be the first onboard direction guide. Just like the modern devices such as a Tom Tom or Garmin, the device was positioned on ...
Daily Mail · 5/21/2012
Bedevilled by technical delays, labyrinthine decision-making and cost estimates that have soared from five to around fifteen billion euros, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is saddled with a reputation as a money pit.
EurActiv.com · 5/22/2015
Air Liquide has announced the signature of a new contract with ITER-India for the design and manufacturing of 19 cryogenic lines for the ITER project. This latest contract comes after two earlier ones, signed in 2012 and in 2013, amounting to around € ...
Gas World · 10/16/2015
Combining 28 years of research from nations representing 80 percent of the world's GDP, ITER will be, by far, the largest international partnership to explore if the fusion of nuclei gives off bursts of energy that could more safely light Europe and beyond.
ZDNet · 3/28/2013
A team of mechanical and electrical engineering students of the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), the faculty of engineering of the SOA University in the Odisha capital, have self-fabricated an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) for ...
Odisha Sun Times · 2/11/2015
It is one of mankind’s most daring experiments – a quest to produce virtually limitless clean energy that, if successful, would revolutionise life on Earth by harnessing the explosive power of the sun. The energy problems that already beset our species ...
Daily Telegraph · 8/10/2010
Matthew Hole is chair of the Australian ITER Forum, a group of more than 160 scientists and engineers who support Australian participation in ITER. Igor Bray is a founding member of the ITER Forum. This article is part of The Conversation’s worldwide ...
THE CONVERSATION · 5/17/2015
IT MAY be the most ambitious scientific venture ever: a global collaboration to create an unlimited supply of clean, cheap fusion energy. Independent News & Media AN IDYLLIC hilltop setting in the Cadarache forest of Provence in the south of France has ...
News Mail · 4/27/2013
Known as Iter, meaning “the way” in Latin, the international nuclear fusion project is aimed at creating a new kind of reactor capable of producing unlimited supplies of cheap, clean, safe and sustainable electricity from atomic fusion. It will weigh ...
Euronews · 4/28/2015
specification in the construction of the ITER fusion reactor." About Cymat:Cymat develops innovative materials for industry. The company has worldwide rights, through patents and licenses, for producing Stabilized Aluminum Foam. The ultra-light metallic ...
Market Watch · 11/30/2015
Ferrovial Agroman has won a €30m (£22m) contract to build the high-tension electricity grid to supply the ITERcomplex in France. The ITER project is the world’s largest experimental facility designed to research the viability of fusion power.
The Construction Index · 4/9/2015
MUMBAI: Engineering firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today said it has shipped its first consignment of cryostat, part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion reactor facility being developed at Cadarache in France. "L&T Heavy ...
Economic Times · 10/19/2015
On March 2015, ASE Optics Europe has won a sub-contract for the design upgrade of the In-Vessel Viewing and metrology System (IVVS) as part of the ITER project through Fusion for Energy and Oxford Technologies Limited. The project is led by Fusion …
Optics · 10/29/2015
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Air Liquide (Paris:AI) announces the signature of a new contract with ITER-India for the design and manufacturing of 19 cryogenic lines for the ITER project. This latest contract comes after two earlier ones …
Business Wire · 10/16/2015
Iter, the international nuclear fusion project, may have secured funds to meet its vastly increased construction costs, but with a new director at the helm, the project will be tightening its purse strings if it is to deliver vital information to answer ...
Royal Society of Chemistry · 8/4/2010
Set in the serene countryside of Saint Paul-lez-Durance in Provence, I saw the most sophisticated, expensive machine ever conceived taking shape - this is Iter, an attempt by scientists and engineers to recreate a star on ... which are made from niobium ...
ITV · 1/25/2015
A multi-million-dollar fusion energy experiment in France has brought Australian experts onboard as part of research that could one day help supply the world with clean, carbon-free energy. The ITER project, currently under construction in France, promises ...
ABC Online · 5/7/2015
IT MAY be the most ambitious scientific venture ever: a global collaboration to create an unlimited supply of clean, cheap fusion energy. Independent News & Media AN IDYLLIC hilltop setting in the Cadarache forest of Provence in the south of France has ...
Northern Star · 4/27/2013
Created using simulations run on the supercomputers at the National Center of Computational Sciences, it shows the expected operation of the ITER fusion reactor. The video clearly outlines the objectives of the …
Space · 11/25/2015
Start Deep Underground
November 29, 2006 Every country should have one – it’s the US$10 Billion ITER Fusion Test Reactor currently being constructed in the South of France to provide the know-how to subsequently build the first electricity-generating power station based on ...
Gizmag · ByMike Hanlon · 11/28/2006
The first layer of magnets will consist of the Toroidal Field (TF) coils that will entrap the plasma and keep it away from the walls of the vacuum vessel. The second layer will consist of the Poloidal Field (PF) coils that will embrace the TF coils from ...
Clean Tech · 10/29/2015
The House and Senate appropriators met in the middle to continue funding the troubled International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or ITER. Senate appropriators had wanted to slash the administration’s request of $150 million in half and make 2015 ...
blogs.rollcall.com · 12/16/2014
During your visit, you’ll be able to explore the vineyards, winery, and the Iter Vitis Museum where you’ll learn about Sicilian viticulture and indigenous grape varieties before sampling some of the wonderful produce. To …
Luxury Travel Magazine · 11/25/2015
Finest Vineyards
It gives me great pleasure to be here in this beautiful amphitheatre on the occasion of the inauguration of theITER headquarters building. Dear Director General, Dr. Osamu Motojima, best wishes from Brussels, thank you for your work and of your staff.
Invest In EU · 1/17/2013
"After almost two decades of trying ... plasma physicists now believe that they have a good chance to demonstrate that power can be produced from controlled fusion reactions," wrote Michael Seif in the journal Science. Sounds familiar? Seif was writing in ...
usatoday30.usatoday.com · 11/24/2008