Material physics

Material physics

Material physics is the use of physics to describe materials in many different ways. It covers a number of related fields such as chemistry, solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, condensed matter, solid state physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, quantum optics, plasma physics, and thermodynamics.

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stagnation point

Materials science; Material physics

Point at which fluid comes to rest in a flow field. Stagnation points can exist anywhere in the flow, but commonly form on surfaces.

Hideki Yukawa

Materials science; Material physics

Postulated that the existence of meson exchange creates a strong force between the proton and neutron. The first discovered particle of this kind was the pion (1947). In 1935, Yukawa suggested the ...

Fermi statistics

Materials science; Material physics

Postulates that it is not possible for two identical fermions (particles) to have the same spatial location. Thus, the position of identical particles must be represented by a wave function ...

Fadeev-Popov method

Materials science; Material physics

Powerful method developed by L.D. Fadeev and V.N. Popov (1967) for incorporating gauge-fixing conditions into functional integrals in quantum field theory. The method guarantees that even when an ...

SU(3) symmetry

Materials science; Material physics

Prediction of the group theory stating that particles with strong interactions can be grouped into 1, 8, 10, and 27 such that those in each group can be considered as belonging to different states of ...

centrigual instability

Materials science; Material physics

Present in a circular Couette flow driven by the adverse gradient of angular momentum which results in counter-rotating toroidal vortices. Also known as the Taylor or Taylor-Couette instability.