Category:History of physics
Here is a list of articles in the History of physics category of the Physics portal.
On the ordering of entries
Entries beginning with "History of " or "List of " are ordered by the rest of their names. (For example: History of special relativity is listed under "S".)
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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F
P
T
Pages in category "History of physics"
The following 133 pages are in this category, out of 133 total.
- History of physics (physics)
A
- Academic genealogy of theoretical physicists (physics)
- Aether drag hypothesis (physics)
- Annus mirabilis (physics)
- Annus Mirabilis papers (physics)
- Anti-gravity (physics)
- Arago spot (physics)
- Archimedean point (physics)
- Aristotelian physics (physics)
B
- B Reactor (physics)
- Balmer series (physics)
- History of the battery (physics)
- Beverly Clock (physics)
- History of the Big Bang theory (astronomy)
- Bohr–Einstein debates (physics)
C
- Caloric theory (physics)
- History of classical mechanics (physics)
- Classical unified field theories (physics)
- Clockwork universe (astronomy)
- Codex on the Flight of Birds (physics)
- Conservation of energy (physics)
- Contact electrification (physics)
- The Copernican Question (physics)
- Corpuscular theory of light (physics)
D
- Dark star (Newtonian mechanics) (astronomy)
- De motu corporum in gyrum (physics)
- Deutsche Physik (physics)
- Dioptrique (physics)
E
- Einstein Papers Project (physics)
- Einstein's Blackboard (computing)
- Einstein's thought experiments (physics)
- History of electromagnetic theory (physics)
- Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics (physics)
- Emission theory (physics)
- Euler's laws of motion (physics)
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (organization)
F
- Fermat's principle (computing)
- Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem (computing)
- Fresnel equations (physics)
- Fresnel rhomb (physics)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (biography)
G
- History of general relativity (physics)
- Golden age of cosmology (physics)
- Golden age of physics (physics)
H
- Heisenberg's entryway to matrix mechanics (physics)
- History of fluid mechanics (physics)
- History of gravitational theory (physics)
- History of spectroscopy (physics)
- History of string theory (physics)
- History of the philosophy of field theory (philosophy)
- Hole argument (physics)
- Horologium Oscillatorium (physics)
- Horror vacui (physics)
- Hyperradiant Fresnel lens (physics)
- Hypotheses non fingo (physics)
I
- The Internet Pilot to Physics (physics)
K
- Kite experiment (physics)
- Koenig's manometric flame apparatus (physics)
L
- Le Sage's theory of gravitation (physics)
- Leibniz–Clarke correspondence (physics)
- Length contraction (computing)
- List of important publications in physics (physics)
- History of loop quantum gravity (physics)
- Lorentz ether theory (physics)
- History of Lorentz transformations (computing)
- Luminiferous aether (physics)
M
- Raffaello Magiotti (biography)
- History of materials science (physics)
- Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics (physics)
- History of Maxwell's equations (physics)
- Mean speed theorem (physics)
- Mechanical equivalent of heat (physics)
- Mechanical explanations of gravitation (physics)
- Moseley's law (physics)
N
- N ray (physics)
- Newton's law of cooling (physics)
- Newton's laws of motion (physics)
- Newtonian dynamics (physics)
- Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist (physics)
- Nordström's theory of gravitation (physics)
O
- Old quantum theory (physics)
- On Physical Lines of Force (physics)
- Andrew Pritchard (biography)
- History of optics (physics)
- Oxford Calculators (physics)
- Oxford Electric Bell (physics)
P
- History of the periodic table (physics)
- The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (physics)
- Physical Society of London (organization)
- Physics in the medieval Islamic world (physics)
- Physics outreach (physics)
- Pitch drop experiment (physics)
- Plane of polarization (physics)
- Plum pudding model (physics)
- Pound–Rebka experiment (physics)
- Principle of least action (physics)
Q
- Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae (physics)
- History of quantum field theory (physics)
- History of quantum mechanics (physics)
R
- Relationship between mathematics and physics (physics)
- Criticism of the theory of relativity (physics)
- Relativity of simultaneity (physics)
- Ritz ballistic theory (physics)
- Rubens' tube (physics)
- Rutherford model (physics)
- Rydberg formula (physics)
S
- History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses (astronomy)
- Electromagnetic mass (physics)
- History of special relativity (physics)
- Speed of gravity (physics)
- Spherical wave transformation (physics)
- Sticky bead argument (physics)
- Stoic physics (physics)
- History of subatomic physics (physics)
- History of superconductivity (physics)
T
- Teleparallelism (physics)
- Teylers Instrument Room (physics)
- Theoretical physics (physics)
- Timaeus (dialogue) (astronomy)
- Timeline of chemical element discoveries (chemistry)
- Timeline of quantum mechanics (physics)
- Tonograph (physics)
- Total internal reflection (computing)
- Transfermium Wars (chemistry)
- Treatise on Light (physics)
- Treatise on Radioactivity (physics)
V
- Vaiśeṣika Sūtra (physics)
- History of variational principles in physics (physics)
- Vortex theory of the atom (physics)
W
- The World (Descartes) (physics)
Y
- Young's interference experiment (physics)
- Thomas Young (scientist) (biography)
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