physical laws
PhysicalLaws
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Topic
physical law
internal energy
energy-momentum tensor
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.
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\subsection{Conservation Laws and Symmetry}
\subsection{Laws of Classical, Newtonian Mechanics}
Euler--Lagrange equation
\begin{itemize}
\item Newton's first, second and third laws of motion
\item Conservation of Momentum
\item Conservation of mass and energy
\item Newton's Law of Gravitation
\item Hook's law
\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
\item Mach's 'principle', or conjecture
\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 Thermodynamics and Molecular Physics}
\begin{itemize}
\item Energy Conservation
\item First, second and third Principles of Thermodynamics:
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\textbf{First Law:} \emph{The change in a system's internal energy is equal to the difference between heat added to the system from its surroundings and work done by the system on its surroundings};
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\textbf{Second Law:} \emph{In any process occurring in a closed system the entropy can only increase};
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\textbf{Third Law:} \emph{the entropy of any pure crystalline system tends to zero in the limit of temperature going to zero absolute (i.e., in deg Kelvin)}; also Nernst's law or theorem.
\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 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 Superposition Principle and the quantum Wavefunction
\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}
\emph{Principles of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)}
\begin{itemize}
\item Particle Indistinguishability
\item Second Quantization
\item Mass---enormalization laws
\item Schwinger–Dyson equation
\end{itemize}
\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}
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