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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electrostatic wave

Materials science; Material physics

One of three categories of plasma waves: electromagnetic, electrostatic, and hydrodynamic (magnetohydrodynamic). Wave motions, i.e., plasma oscillations, are inherent to plasmas due to the ...

plasma electrostatic wave

Materials science; Material physics

One of three categories of plasma waves: electromagnetic, electrostatic, and hydrodynamic (magnetohydrodynamic). Wave motions, i.e., plasma oscillations, are inherent to plasmas due to the ...

isotope

Materials science; Material physics

One of two or more nuclides that have the same atomic number but different numbers of neutrons so that they have different masses. The mass is indicated by a left exponent on the symbol of the ...

isotone

Materials science; Material physics

One of two or more nuclides that have the same number of neutrons in their nuclei but differ in the number of protons.

flying hot-wire anemometry

Materials science; Material physics

One restriction of using a stationary hot-wire anemometry is its inability to measure the velocity in regions of flow reversals. Flying hot-wire anemometry overcomes this difficulty by moving the ...

storage rings

Materials science; Material physics

One way of building head-on collisions. Beams of particles circulate continuously (similar to synchrotrons). Two storage rings can be tangent to each another and build collision in the place of ...