Portal:Physics

This is the home page for the Physics Department of the school of physics and astronomy. The department organizes and develops Physics content on Wikiversity.

If you are knowledgeable in any area of physics, feel free to improve upon what you see, we would greatly appreciate your contributions.

Divisions
The learning resources and divisions are grouped by level of difficulty, and each one roughly corresponds to an academic year at degree level. Normally you should not study a subject at a higher level until you have completed, or are at least familiar, with the previous level.

Introduction to Physics

 * Basics of Physics
 * High School Physics
 * First year college physics
 * AP Physics

Level 1

 * Introductory Classical Mechanics
 * Vibrations and Waves
 * Thermodynamics
 * Atomic Structure and Electromagnetic Radiation
 * Introduction to the Photoelectric effect

Level 2

 * Calculus II
 * Advanced classical mechanics
 * Linear algebra
 * Quantum mechanics I
 * Electromagnetism
 * Statistics for science
 * Nuclear physics
 * Special relativity

Level 3

 * Statistical mechanics
 * Statistical Thermodynamics
 * Particle Physics
 * Fluid Dynamics
 * Statistical Mechanics
 * Fourier Analysis
 * Applied Physics
 * Geophysics
 * Solid State Physics

Postgraduate & Research

 * Biophysics
 * General relativity
 * History of Physics
 * Quantum Chromodynamics
 * Plasma Physics
 * String Theory
 * Study Guide:Mathematical Mesoscopic Physics
 * Nonstandard physics ... pages that may represent non-standard understandings or original research

School of Mathematics

 * Introductory Algebra and Geometry
 * Calculus
 * Euclidean Geometry
 * Group Theory
 * Linear Algebra
 * Topology
 * Trigonometry
 * Vector Calculus
 * Theoretical Physics

School of Computer Science
(work in progress)

School of Engineering

 * Aeronautical engineering
 * Aerospace engineering
 * Nuclear engineering

Learning projects and resources

 * Physics
 * Search for Physics at Wikiversity

Atomic, Nuclear and particle physics

 * Alpha decay
 * Atomic structure
 * Beta decay
 * Electroweak interaction
 * Gamma decay
 * Nuclear physics
 * Particle physics
 * Strong force
 * Weak force

Quantum mechanics

 * Schrödinger equation
 * Heisenberg uncertainty principle
 * Quantum electrodynamics
 * Quantum chromodynamics

Relativity

 * Special relativity
 * General relativity

Cosmology

 * Cosmology
 * Dark matter

Classical mechanics

 * Tables of Physics Formulae
 * Classical mechanics
 * Conservation of energy
 * Basic kinematics   // *** may subsume 3 laws of motion; if so, put in link
 * Newton's Laws of Motion
 * Lagrangian mechanics

Thermodynamics

 * Thermodynamics
 * Statistical mechanics
 * Entropy
 * Carnot engine

Electromagnetism

 * Coulomb's Law
 * Biot-Savart Law
 * Maxwell's equations
 * Capacitors
 * Electrical current

Mathematics
Since the time of Newton, mathematics has played a major role in physics. Some of the mathematical techniques are objects of study in their own right. These can be found in the mathematics resources template below.

Essays
The subpage hosts essays and explorations. Some of these may represent nonstandard physics.

Learning groups

 * Physics - Physics in simple English.

Sub departments
Sub-departments along with courses, activities, articles, lectures and quizzes can be found under External links in the Physics resources template labeled Topics.