This visual story walks through the 15 beautiful physics equations, from
the simplest and oldest, to the complex and recent, in the delightful
book by Bruno Mansoulié.
The law of reflection says that for specular reflection the angle at
which the wave is incident on the surface equals the angle at which it
is reflected.
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2. Snell-Descartes Law
Snell–Descartes law describes the relationship between the angles of
incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing
through a boundary between two different isotropic media, such as water,
glass, or air.
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3. Fundamental Principle of Dynamics
Newton's second law states that the rate of change of momentum of a
body is directly proportional to the force applied, and this change in
momentum takes place in the direction of the applied force.
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4. Law of Gravitation
Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every particle attracts
every other particle in the universe with a force which is directly
proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional
to the square of the distance between their centers.
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5. Ideal Gas Law
The ideal gas law, also called the general gas equation, is the equation
of state of a hypothetical ideal gas. It is a good approximation of the
behavior of many gases under many conditions, although it has several
limitations.
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6. Hooke's Law
Hooke's law states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a
spring by some distance x scales linearly with respect to that distance.
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7. Navier-Stokes Equation
The Navier–Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George
Gabriel Stokes, describe the motion of viscous fluid substances.
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8. Maxwell's Equations
Maxwell's equations are a set of partial differential equations that,
together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical
electromagnetism, classical optics, and electric circuits.
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9. Matter-Engery Equivalence
Mass–energy equivalence states that anything having mass has an
equivalent amount of energy and vice versa, as described by Albert
Einstein's famous formula.
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10. Schrodinger's Equation
Schrödinger equation is a mathematical equation that describes the
changes over time of a physical system in which quantum effects, such
as wave–particle duality, are significant.
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11. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relations
Introduced first in 1927, by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg,
it states that the more precisely the position of some particle is
determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa.
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12.General Relativity
General relativity (GR, also known as the general theory of relativity or
GTR) is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein
in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics.
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13. Dirac's Equation
The Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British
physicist Paul Dirac in 1928.
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14. Feynman Diagrams
Feynman diagrams are pictorial representations of the mathematical
expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles. The scheme
is named after its inventor, American physicist Richard Feynman, and
was first introduced in 1948.
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15. Standard Model
The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of
the four known fundamental forces (the electromagnetic, weak, and strong
interactions, and not including the gravitational force) in the Universe,
as well as classifying all known elementary particles.
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Future Physics
Theoretical developments are needed to explain the deficiencies of
the Standard Model, such as the origin of mass, the strong CP problem,
neutrino oscillations, matter–antimatter asymmetry, and the nature of
dark matter and dark energy.
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