PhysicalLaws 2010-11-07 14:53:01 2010-11-07 16:10:05 Topic physical law Huygen's principle of diffraction Bragg's law Heisenberg Principle energy-mass equivalence principle of constancy of light speed Maxwell's laws Netwon's laws Newton's law of gravitation correspondence principle Maupertuis's principle Hamilton's principle variational principles wavge-particle duality principle quantization laws law physical law physical principle Huygen's principle of diffraction Bragg's law Heisenberg Principle energy-mass equivalence principle of constancy of light speed Maxwell's laws Netwon's laws Newton's law of gravitation correspondence principle Maupertuis's principle Hamilton's principle variational principles wavge-particle duality principle quantization laws \section{The Laws of Physics} This is a new contributed topic summarizing the laws of Physics. \textbf{more to come...} \subsection{Conservation Laws and Symmetry} \subsection{Laws of Classical, Newtonian Mechanics} Euler--Lagrange equation \begin{itemize} \item Newton's first, second and third laws \item Conservation of Momentum \item Coinservation of mass and energy \item Newton's Law of Gravitation \end{itemize} \subsection{Principles and Laws of Relativistic Mechanics} \begin{itemize} \item Equivalence of reference systems or coordination frames \item Constancy of the speed of light, $c$ \item Einstein's Equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass \item Einstein's Law of Mass-Energy Equivalence \item Einstein–Hilbert action \item Einstein's field equations (EFEs) \item Einstein-Maxwell equations \item Correspondence principle: Newton's law of gravitation derived from EFEs \end{itemize} \subsection{Principle and Laws of Optics} \begin{itemize} \item Maupertuis' Principle; Principle of Minimum Action \item Hamilton's Principle \item Snell's Laws \item Huygens's Principle of Diffraction \end{itemize} \subsection{Laws of Electromagnetism and Electrodynamics} \begin{itemize} \item Charge Conservation \item Coulomb's Law \item Amp\'ere's Law \item Faraday's Law \item Kirchhoff law for electrical circuits \item Maxwell's Equations \item Bragg's Law \item Clausius-Mossotti Law \item xxxx \end{itemize} \subsection{Laws of Quantum Mechanics} \begin{itemize} \item Planck's Law and Universal constant, $h$ \item Einstein's Laws of Light Absorption and Emission; Einstein's coefficients \item Law of Photoelectric effect \item Quantization Laws \item First and Second Quantization Principles \item Correspondence Principle \item Wave-Particle Duality (de Broglie) \item Uncertainty Principle (Heisenberg) \item Schr"/odinger's Equations \item Hamilton's Principle \item Einstein--Maxwell--Dirac equations (EMD) \item Klein--Fock--Gordon equation \item Rarita--Schwinger equation for spin-3/2 fermions \item Conservation Laws in Spontaneous and Quantum Measurement Processes \item Pauli's Principle for fermions \item Goldstone Theorem \item Kirchhoff's Laws of spectroscopic analysis: Kirchhoff showed that there are three types of spectra emitted by objects: 1) Continuous spectrum -- a solid or liquid body radiates an uninterrupted, smooth spectrum (called a Planck curve); 2) Emission spectrum-- a radiating gas produces a spectrum of discrete spectral lines 3) Absorption spectrum -- a continuous spectrum that passes through a cool gas has specific spectral lines removed (inverse of an emission spectrum) \item Dispersion laws \item Superconductivity principle and Meissner effect \end{itemize} \subsection{Laws of Thermodynamics and Molecular Physics} \begin{itemize} \item First, second and third Principles of Thermodynamics \item Onsager's Principle \item Stefan-Boltzmann's Law \item xxxx \end{itemize} First, second and third Principles of Thermodynamics \subsection{Statistical Mechanics} \subsection{Laws of Atomic and Nuclear Physics} \begin{itemize} \item Lepton conservation laws in electroweak theory \item The Standard Model \item Supersymmetry \item Equivalence of String theories \item Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs theory \item Dispersion laws for Goldstone bosons \end{itemize} \textbf{more to come...}