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Physics Laws and Principles

This document lists and briefly describes over 30 scientific laws, principles, and theories across various domains of physics including mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, optics, and relativity. Some of the key ideas mentioned include Newton's laws of motion, the laws of conservation of energy and momentum, Hooke's law, Snell's law, Ohm's law, Coulomb's law, the laws of thermodynamics, Bernoulli's principle, and the principles of relativity.
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Physics Laws and Principles

This document lists and briefly describes over 30 scientific laws, principles, and theories across various domains of physics including mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, optics, and relativity. Some of the key ideas mentioned include Newton's laws of motion, the laws of conservation of energy and momentum, Hooke's law, Snell's law, Ohm's law, Coulomb's law, the laws of thermodynamics, Bernoulli's principle, and the principles of relativity.
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LAW OF INERTIA The energy associated with the work done by the net

Bodies experiencing balanced forces will not move, force does not disappear after the net force is removed
else they will move with constant velocity (or becomes zero), it is transformed into the Kinetic
Energy of the body.
LAW OF ACCELERATION
The sum of all unbalanced forced acting on a body is LENZS LAW
proportional to the acceleration experienced by the "The Induced current is such as to OPPOSE the CHARGE
body in applied field."

LAW OF INTERACTION PARTICLE THEORY OF LIGHT


When a body exerts a force on another body, the other Light is made up of little particles.
body exerts a force that is equal in magnitude as the They obey the same laws of physics as other masses
first but has an opposite direction like baseballs
and planets.
LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY They are tiny so the particles in two intersecting
The total amount of energy in an isolated system beams do not
remains constant scatter off each other.

IMPULSE-MOMENTUM THEOREM QUANTUM THEORY OF LIGHT


An impulse may also be regarded as the change in Both light and matter consists of tiny particles which
momentum of an object to which force is applied have wavelike properties associated with them

THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM HOOKES LAW


The total momentum of any group of objects remains Stress is directly proportional to strain, but ONLY up to
the same unless outside forces acts on objects a limit called the proportionality constant

UNIVERSAL LAW OF GRAVITATION SNELLS LAW


The force of attraction between a pair of objects in the The ratio of the Sines of the angles of incidence and of
universe is directly proportional to the product of their refraction is a constant that depends on the media
masses but is inversely proportional to the square of
the separation OHMS LAW
The law of physics that states that electric current is
LAW OF ELLIPSES directly proportional to the voltage applied to a
Planets follow optical orbits with the sun on one conductor and inversely proportional to that
focus. conductor's resistance

LAW OF AREAS COULOMBS LAW


The line joining the sun and any one of the planets will a law of electricity stating that the force of attraction
sweep out equal areas in equal times or repulsion between two electric charges is
proportional to their product and inversely proportional
LAW OF PERIODS to the square of the distance between them
The period of revolution of a planet is proportional to
the 3/2 powers of the distance between the planet and LAW OF INDUCTION
the sun. The induced electromotive force or EMF in any closed
circuit is equal to the time rate of change of the
PASCALS PRINCIPLE magnetic flux through the circuit.
A change in pressure of an enclosed incompressible
fluid is conveyed undiminished to every part of the fluid PRINCIPLES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
and to the surfaces of its container 1. The laws of nature are valid inertial frames of
reference
ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE 2. The speed of light is constant for all observers in
The magnitude of the upward force, buoyant force, is inertial frames of reference. There cannot be a speed
equal to the greater that the speed of light.
weight of the displaced volume of fluid
LAW OF CONSERVATION OF THERMAL
TORRICELLIS LAW ENERGY
The speed of efflux of a fluid through a sharp-edged The amount of thermal energy that an object gives off
hole at the bottom of a tank filled to a depth is the to the other object is equal to the thermal energy that
same as the speed that a body (in this case a drop of the other object receives.
water) would acquire in falling freely from a height.

ZEROTH LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS


LAW OF CONSERVATION OF CHARGE
The number of electron loss in a body is equal to the
If A is in thermodynamic equilibrium as B, and if B is in
amount of the electrons gained by the other object
thermodynamic equilibrium as C, then A is
close to the first.
thermodynamic equilibrium as C.
PRINCIPLE OF SIMULTANEITY
FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
Events that are simultaneous in an inertial frame of
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can
reference are not simultaneous in another frame of
only change forms. In any process, the total energy of
reference.
the universe remains the same.
FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF NATURE
SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
Like charges repel, unlike charges attract.
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium
will tend to increase over time, approaching a
maximum value at equilibrium. LAW OF SUPERPOSITION
Two or more waves combine to form a new one.
THIRD LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
As temperature approaches absolute zero, the entropy LAW OF REFLECTION
of a system approaches a constant minimum. The angle of reflection is equal to the angle of
incidence
WORK-ENERGY THEOREM
PRINCIPLE OF A SPRING
The force exerted by the spring is always opposite to
the external force that acts on it.

BERNOULLIS PRINCIPLE
a law in physics whereby the sum of the pressure and
the product of one half of the density times the velocity
squared is constant along a streamline for steady flow
in an incompressible nonviscous fluid at constant
height.

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