Physics

Physics is the first section to make the cross-referenced structure visible. Every claim here points back to a specific mathematical result — Lagrangians to variational calculus, field theory to representation theory, statistical mechanics to measure theory.

Units (§09–13)

  1. 09.01.01Kinematics — position, velocity, acceleration shipped
  2. 09.01.02Newton's laws of motion shipped
  3. 09.01.03Conservation laws — energy, momentum, angular momentum shipped
  4. 09.01.04Two-body central-force problem, Kepler orbits, and Rutherford scattering shipped
  5. 09.01.05Newton's Law of Gravitation: Gravitational Field, Potential, and the Shell Theorem shipped
  6. 09.01.06Friction, Normal Forces, and Constraints: Holonomic and Non-holonomic Systems shipped
  7. 09.01.07Non-inertial Frames: Centrifugal Force, Coriolis Force, and Foucault's Pendulum shipped
  8. 09.01.08Variable-Mass Systems: The Rocket Equation (Tsiolkovsky) and Momentum Transport shipped
  9. 09.02.01The action principle and variational calculus shipped
  10. 09.02.02Euler-Lagrange equations shipped
  11. 09.02.03Constrained Lagrangian Systems: Lagrange Multipliers and D'Alembert's Principle shipped
  12. 09.02.04Small Oscillations: Normal Modes and the Eigenvalue Problem for Coupled Oscillators shipped
  13. 09.02.05Lagrangian Perturbation Theory: Secular Terms and the Method of Multiple Scales shipped
  14. 09.02.06Field Lagrangians and the Continuum Limit: Elastic Media and the Wave Equation as a Field Theory shipped
  15. 09.03.01Noether's theorem — symmetries and conservation laws shipped
  16. 09.03.02Cyclic Coordinates, Ignorable Degrees of Freedom, and Routh's Procedure shipped
  17. 09.03.03Quantum free particle as a representation of shipped
  18. 09.03.04Discrete Symmetries in Mechanics: Parity, Time-Reversal, and Conservation Laws shipped
  19. 09.03.05Galilean Symmetry Group and the Ten Integrals of Motion shipped
  20. 09.04.01Legendre transform — from Lagrangian to Hamiltonian shipped
  21. 09.04.02Hamilton's equations shipped
  22. 09.04.03Poisson Brackets: Structure, the Jacobi Identity, and Bracket Algebra of Conserved Quantities shipped
  23. 09.04.04Liouville's Theorem and the Incompressibility of Phase-Space Flow shipped
  24. 09.04.05Symplectic Structure, the Symplectic Form, and Darboux's Theorem shipped
  25. 09.04.06Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory: Averaging and Adiabatic Invariants shipped
  26. 09.04.07Complex structures and quantization; squeezed states shipped
  27. 09.04.08Classical Spin: The SO(3) Poisson Bracket and Euler's Equations for Rigid Body Rotation shipped
  28. 09.04.09The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation as the Eikonal Limit: WKB and Geometric Optics shipped
  29. 09.05.01Canonical transformations shipped
  30. 09.05.02Hamilton-Jacobi equation shipped
  31. 09.05.03Generating Functions for Canonical Transformations: Four Types (F1, F2, F3, F4) shipped
  32. 09.05.04Point Transformations and Their Canonical Lifts shipped
  33. 09.05.05The Symplectic Group Sp(2n, R) and Its Role in Linear Canonical Transformations shipped
  34. 09.06.01Action-angle variables shipped
  35. 09.06.02The Liouville-Arnold Theorem: Integrability and the Existence of Action-Angle Variables shipped
  36. 09.06.03Completely Integrable Systems: The Toda Lattice and the Kepler Problem Revisited shipped
  37. 09.06.04Lax Pairs and the Inverse Scattering Method: Solitons in Classical Mechanics shipped
  38. 09.07.01Continuum Mechanics and Field Theory shipped
  39. 09.07.02Elastic Waves in Solids: Longitudinal and Transverse Modes, the Cauchy Stress Tensor shipped
  40. 09.07.03Ideal Fluid Mechanics: Euler's Equations, Bernoulli's Equation, and Vorticity shipped
  41. 09.07.04Viscous Flow: The Navier-Stokes Equations, Reynolds Number, and Laminar-Turbulent Transition shipped
  42. 09.08.01KAM theorem and chaos shipped
  43. 09.08.02Phase-Space Structure of Chaos: Poincare Sections, Homoclinic Tangles, and Horseshoe Maps shipped
  44. 09.08.03Lyapunov Exponents: Definition, Computation, and the Chaotic Double Pendulum shipped
  45. 09.08.04Period-doubling route to chaos: the logistic map and Feigenbaum universality shipped
  46. 09.08.05Strange attractors: the Lorenz system, fractal dimension, and sensitive dependence shipped
  47. 10.01.01Coulomb's law and Gauss's law shipped
  48. 10.01.02Laplace equation and boundary value problems shipped
  49. 10.01.03Conductors, capacitance, and electrostatic energy shipped
  50. 10.01.04Dielectrics, polarization P, and the electric displacement D shipped
  51. 10.01.05Multipole expansion of the electrostatic potential shipped
  52. 10.02.01Biot-Savart law and Ampere's law shipped
  53. 10.02.02Magnetic vector potential, gauge freedom, and the Coulomb gauge shipped
  54. 10.02.03Magnetization, H-field, and magnetic materials: diamagnets, paramagnets, ferromagnets shipped
  55. 10.02.04Boundary conditions at interfaces: normal and tangential components of E, D, B, H shipped
  56. 10.02.05Magnetic scalar potential and the demagnetization factor shipped
  57. 10.03.01Faraday's law and electromagnetic induction shipped
  58. 10.03.02Faraday's law in integral and differential form: mutual and self-inductance, energy in inductors shipped
  59. 10.03.03Energy and momentum in the electromagnetic field: Poynting vector, Maxwell stress tensor, conservation laws shipped
  60. 10.03.04Displacement current, the continuity equation, and the complete Maxwell equations in matter shipped
  61. 10.03.05Energy and momentum in the electromagnetic field: the Poynting vector and radiation pressure shipped
  62. 10.04.01Maxwell's equations in differential form shipped
  63. 10.04.02EM waves and the wave equation shipped
  64. 10.04.03Plane waves in matter: dispersion relations, skin depth, and the complex refractive index shipped
  65. 10.04.04Waveguides and transmission lines: TE, TM, TEM modes and the cutoff frequency shipped
  66. 10.04.05Cavities and resonant modes: the quality factor Q and normal-mode expansion shipped
  67. 10.05.01Special relativity — postulates and Lorentz transformations shipped
  68. 10.05.02Relativistic kinematics and dynamics shipped
  69. 10.05.03Four-velocity, four-momentum, and the relativistic energy-momentum identity shipped
  70. 10.06.01Covariant electrodynamics — Faraday tensor shipped
  71. 10.06.02The four-current, charge-current density, and covariant continuity shipped
  72. 10.06.03The electromagnetic stress-energy tensor and covariant energy-momentum conservation shipped
  73. 10.06.04Transformation of E and B fields under Lorentz boosts shipped
  74. 10.07.01Radiation from accelerating charges — Larmor formula shipped
  75. 10.07.02Electric dipole radiation: angular distribution, polarization, and total radiated power shipped
  76. 10.07.03Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole radiation: multipole expansion of radiation fields shipped
  77. 10.07.04Radiation reaction: the Abraham-Lorentz force and the self-energy problem shipped
  78. 10.07.05Synchrotron radiation: relativistic circular motion and the 1/gamma^4 power formula shipped
  79. 10.07.06Radiation — antennas, scattering, and radiation reaction shipped
  80. 10.08.01Green's function method for the scalar and vector potentials: retarded, advanced, and Feynman propagators shipped
  81. 10.08.02Jefimenko's Equations: Exact Retarded Solutions for E and B Given Arbitrary Sources shipped
  82. 10.08.03Diffraction: Kirchhoff Integral, Fraunhofer and Fresnel Regimes shipped
  83. 10.08.04Geometrical Optics as the Short-Wavelength Limit: Eikonal Equation and Ray Tracing shipped
  84. 10.08.05Macroscopic Maxwell Equations: Linear Response, Kramers-Kronig Relations, and Causality shipped
  85. 11.01.01First and second laws of thermodynamics shipped
  86. 11.01.02Thermodynamic potentials and Legendre transforms shipped
  87. 11.01.03Third law of thermodynamics: Nernst heat theorem, absolute entropy, and zero-point entropy shipped
  88. 11.01.04Thermodynamic stability: convexity, Le Chatelier's principle, and the spinodal curve shipped
  89. 11.01.05Equations of state: virial expansion, van der Waals gas, and the law of corresponding states shipped
  90. 11.01.06Thermodynamic cycles: Carnot efficiency, Otto and Diesel cycles, and entropy production shipped
  91. 11.02.01Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution from kinetic theory shipped
  92. 11.02.02Transport phenomena: diffusion, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and the mean free path shipped
  93. 11.02.03The Boltzmann transport equation: H-theorem, the approach to equilibrium, and the BGK approximation shipped
  94. 11.02.04Fluctuations and Noise: The Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem and Nyquist's Formula shipped
  95. 11.03.01Microcanonical ensemble shipped
  96. 11.03.02Grand canonical ensemble: chemical potential, fugacity, and variable particle number shipped
  97. 11.03.03Equivalence of Ensembles in the Thermodynamic Limit: Legendre Structure and Equivalence Conditions shipped
  98. 11.03.04Isothermal-Isobaric (NPT) Ensemble: Gibbs Free Energy as the Natural Potential shipped
  99. 11.04.01Canonical ensemble and partition function shipped
  100. 11.04.02Souriau Gibbs state on a symplectic -space shipped
  101. 11.04.03Factorization of the partition function: independent subsystems and the grand potential shipped
  102. 11.04.04Classical ideal gas partition function: Sackur-Tetrode entropy and the Gibbs paradox shipped
  103. 11.04.05Harmonic Oscillator in a Thermal Bath: Heat Capacity and the Einstein Solid shipped
  104. 11.05.01Bose-Einstein distribution shipped
  105. 11.05.02Fermi-Dirac distribution and electron gas shipped
  106. 11.05.03Blackbody radiation: Planck distribution, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien displacement law shipped
  107. 11.05.04Bose-Einstein condensation and the critical temperature shipped
  108. 11.05.05Fermi gas: heat capacity, electron specific heat, and Pauli paramagnetism shipped
  109. 11.05.06Photon gas, phonon gas, and the Debye model of solids shipped
  110. 11.06.01Ising model and phase transitions shipped
  111. 11.06.02Mean-field theory of phase transitions: the van der Waals and Curie-Weiss models shipped
  112. 11.06.03Landau Theory: Order Parameter, Symmetry Breaking, and the Free Energy Expansion shipped
  113. 11.06.04Fluctuations Beyond Mean Field: The Ginzburg Criterion and Ginzburg-Landau Theory shipped
  114. 11.06.05Scaling Hypothesis: Widom Scaling, Kadanoff Block Spins, and Data Collapse shipped
  115. 11.06.06Transfer Matrix Method: Exact Solution of the 1D Ising Model and Onsager's Legacy shipped
  116. 11.07.01Critical phenomena and renormalization group shipped
  117. 11.07.02The renormalization group — Wilson's framework shipped
  118. 11.07.03Block-Spin Renormalization: Wilson's Real-Space RG, Fixed Points, and Relevant Operators shipped
  119. 11.07.04Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition: Topological Phase Transitions in Two Dimensions shipped
  120. 11.07.05The Epsilon Expansion, RG Flows Near Four Dimensions, Critical Exponents, and Conformal Field Theory shipped
  121. 12.01.01Wave-particle duality and the double-slit shipped
  122. 12.01.02Stern-Gerlach and spin-1/2 shipped
  123. 12.01.03WKB approximation: tunneling, Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization, and connection formulas shipped
  124. 12.01.04Probability current, continuity equation, and the flow interpretation of the wavefunction shipped
  125. 12.01.05Spreading of the free Gaussian wave packet: group velocity and dispersion shipped
  126. 12.02.01Hilbert-space formalism of quantum mechanics shipped
  127. 12.02.02Operators, observables, and Hermiticity shipped
  128. 12.02.03Density matrix and pure / mixed states shipped
  129. 12.02.04Measurement postulates: Born rule, wavefunction collapse, and the projection postulate shipped
  130. 12.03.01Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures shipped
  131. 12.03.02Time-dependent perturbation theory: Fermi's golden rule and transition rates shipped
  132. 12.03.03The interaction picture, Dyson series, and time-ordered exponentials shipped
  133. 12.04.01Particle in a box shipped
  134. 12.04.02Quantum harmonic oscillator shipped
  135. 12.04.03The finite square well: bound states, tunneling, and resonant scattering shipped
  136. 12.04.04The delta-function potential: exactly solvable bound state and scattering shipped
  137. 12.05.01Angular momentum operators and SU(2) representations shipped
  138. 12.05.02Spherical harmonics and Legendre polynomials shipped
  139. 12.05.03Addition of angular momenta and Clebsch-Gordan coefficients shipped
  140. 12.05.04Free Klein-Gordon scalar quantum field shipped
  141. 12.05.05Free Dirac spin-1/2 quantum field shipped
  142. 12.05.06Free Maxwell / massive vector fields; photon and Proca shipped
  143. 12.05.07Molecular vibrations and spectroscopic selection rules via symmetry shipped
  144. 12.06.01Hydrogen atom bound states shipped
  145. 12.06.02The isotropic harmonic oscillator in three dimensions: Cartesian and spherical solutions shipped
  146. 12.06.03The Runge-Lenz vector, SO(4) symmetry, and the accidental degeneracy of hydrogen shipped
  147. 12.06.04Crossing symmetry; CPT theorem at the -matrix level shipped
  148. 12.07.01Time-independent perturbation theory shipped
  149. 12.07.02Time-dependent perturbation theory and Fermi's golden rule shipped
  150. 12.07.03Variational method (Rayleigh-Ritz) in quantum mechanics shipped
  151. 12.07.04WKB approximation and Bohr-Sommerfeld quantisation shipped
  152. 12.07.05Stark and Zeeman effects in LL3 framing shipped
  153. 12.07.07Adiabatic theorem and Berry phase preview shipped
  154. 12.07.08Berry phase and the geometric phase shipped
  155. 12.08.01Scattering Theory shipped
  156. 12.08.02Born approximation and the Lippmann-Schwinger equation shipped
  157. 12.08.03Partial-wave expansion and phase shifts shipped
  158. 12.08.04Inelastic collisions and the distorted-wave Born approximation shipped
  159. 12.09.01Identical Particles and Many-Body Quantum Mechanics shipped
  160. 12.09.02Exchange interaction and the helium atom shipped
  161. 12.09.03Hartree-Fock self-consistent field method shipped
  162. 12.09.04Multi-electron atomic structure and LS coupling shipped
  163. 12.09.05Diatomic molecule and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation shipped
  164. 12.10.01Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics shipped
  165. 12.10.02Euclidean path integrals, instantons, and tunneling between vacua shipped
  166. 12.10.03The semiclassical approximation: stationary phase, van Vleck determinant, and Gutzwiller trace formula shipped
  167. 12.11.01Dirac equation and relativistic spin shipped
  168. 12.11.02Klein-Gordon equation in external EM field: Coulomb and uniform-magnetic cases shipped
  169. 12.11.03Dirac equation in a Coulomb field shipped
  170. 12.11.04Klein paradox shipped
  171. 12.11.05Furry's theorem and charge-conjugation symmetry of QED shipped
  172. 12.12.01Canonical Quantum Field Theory shipped
  173. 12.12.02Coulomb gauge vs Lorenz gauge in QED shipped
  174. 12.12.03Compton scattering and the Klein-Nishina formula shipped
  175. 12.12.04Møller scattering (electron-electron) shipped
  176. 12.12.05Bhabha scattering (electron-positron) shipped
  177. 12.12.06Bethe-Heitler bremsstrahlung and pair production shipped
  178. 12.13.01Bosonic Fock space and second quantisation shipped
  179. 12.13.02Fermionic Fock space, Pauli exclusion, and anticommutators shipped
  180. 12.13.03Cluster decomposition and the connected S-matrix shipped
  181. 12.14.01CCR algebra, Weyl algebra, and quasi-free states shipped
  182. 12.14.02The Heisenberg group, the Schrödinger representation, and Stone–von Neumann as quantization shipped
  183. 12.15.01Time-reversal symmetry and Kramers' degeneracy shipped
  184. 12.15.02Parity, discrete-symmetry groups, and the Wigner-Eckart theorem shipped
  185. 12.15.03CP violation and the CKM matrix shipped
  186. 12.16.01Electron self-energy and mass renormalization at one loop shipped
  187. 12.16.02One-loop QED vertex function and the anomalous magnetic moment shipped
  188. 12.16.03Vacuum polarization at one loop and the Uehling potential shipped
  189. 12.16.04Lamb shift from one-loop QED shipped
  190. 12.16.05Infrared divergences and the Bloch-Nordsieck cancellation in QED shipped
  191. 12.16.06Power counting, the superficial degree of divergence, and renormalizability classification shipped
  192. 12.17.01Density matrix, pure states, and mixed states shipped
  193. 12.17.02Entanglement, Schmidt decomposition, and entanglement entropy shipped
  194. 12.17.03Bell inequalities, CHSH inequality, and the Tsirelson bound shipped
  195. 12.17.07Quantum teleportation and superdense coding shipped
  196. 12.18.01The Higgs mechanism: spontaneously broken gauge symmetry shipped
  197. 12.18.02The Goldstone theorem and effective Goldstone Lagrangians shipped
  198. 12.18.03Asymptotic freedom and the running gauge coupling shipped
  199. 12.18.04Theta-vacua, the vacuum angle, and the strong-CP problem shipped
  200. 12.18.05The chiral (Adler-Bell-Jackiw) anomaly from the triangle diagram shipped
  201. 12.18.06Operator product expansion and short-distance behaviour shipped
  202. 12.18.13Vortices (Nielsen-Olesen / Abrikosov flux tubes) shipped
  203. 12.18.16Lattice gauge theory and confinement (QFT pointer) shipped
  204. 12.19.01The supersymmetry algebra: Coleman-Mandula, Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius, and the graded extension of Poincare shipped
  205. 12.19.02Superspace, superfields, and Berezin integration shipped
  206. 12.19.03Supermultiplets and the Wess-Zumino model: Bose-Fermi degeneracy, the superpotential, and the auxiliary F-field shipped
  207. 12.19.04Super-Yang-Mills and the non-renormalization theorem: the vector superfield, Wess-Zumino gauge, , and supergraphs shipped
  208. 12.19.05Spontaneous SUSY breaking: the Goldstino theorem, O'Raifeartaigh and Fayet-Iliopoulos, the supertrace sum rule, and the field-theory Witten index shipped
  209. 12.19.06Supersymmetric QCD and Seiberg duality: the moduli space of vacua, holomorphy, and N=1 electric-magnetic duality shipped
  210. 12.20.01Condensed-matter physics — band structure, phonons, and emergent order shipped
  211. 12.20.02Superconductivity — Cooper pairs, BCS theory, and macroscopic quantum order shipped
  212. 12.20.03Magnetism, Mott physics, and topological phases of matter shipped
  213. 12.21.01The Standard Model — electroweak unification and QCD shipped
  214. 12.21.02Electroweak theory and the Higgs mechanism shipped
  215. 13.01.01The equivalence principle shipped
  216. 13.01.02The equivalence principle — weak, strong, Einstein, and experimental tests shipped
  217. 13.02.01Tensors on smooth manifolds shipped
  218. 13.02.02Geodesics and parallel transport shipped
  219. 13.02.03Cartan tetrad and spin-connection formulation of general relativity shipped
  220. 13.03.01Riemann curvature tensor shipped
  221. 13.03.02Ricci and scalar curvature, and the Einstein tensor shipped
  222. 13.03.03The ADM 3+1 formalism and the Hamiltonian constraint shipped
  223. 13.04.01Einstein field equations shipped
  224. 13.04.02Einstein-Hilbert action and variational derivation of the Einstein equations shipped
  225. 13.04.03Palatini first-order variational formulation of general relativity shipped
  226. 13.04.04Stress-energy tensor as functional derivative of the matter action shipped
  227. 13.05.01Schwarzschild solution shipped
  228. 13.05.02Orbits in Schwarzschild geometry shipped
  229. 13.05.03Solar-system tests of general relativity: perihelion precession, light bending, Shapiro time delay, gravitational redshift, frame-dragging shipped
  230. 13.05.04Kerr black hole, ergosphere, and the Penrose process shipped
  231. 13.06.01Black Holes shipped
  232. 13.06.03Black hole thermodynamics: the four laws, Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, and the area theorem shipped
  233. 13.06.04Hawking radiation: Bogoliubov derivation, thermal spectrum, and black-hole evaporation shipped
  234. 13.07.01Linearized GR and gravitational waves shipped
  235. 13.07.02Null infinity, the BMS group, and the Bondi-Sachs mass-loss formula shipped
  236. 13.07.03Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors: LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA shipped
  237. 13.08.01FLRW cosmology and Friedmann equations shipped
  238. 13.08.02Cosmology — FLRW, inflation, nucleosynthesis, CMB, and structure shipped
  239. 13.08.03Cosmological inflation: slow-roll scalar fields and the origin of structure shipped
  240. 13.08.04Gravitational lensing: strong, weak, and microlensing — Einstein rings, dark matter maps, and exoplanet detection shipped
  241. 13.09.01Globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds shipped
  242. 13.09.02Klein-Gordon equation on a globally hyperbolic spacetime shipped
  243. 13.09.03Hadamard states via the wave-front-set criterion shipped
  244. 13.09.04Existence of Hadamard states via the FNW deformation argument shipped
  245. 13.09.05Hadamard states by pseudo-differential calculus (Gérard-Wrochna) shipped
  246. 13.09.06Wick polynomials in curved spacetime via Hadamard parametrix subtraction shipped
  247. 13.09.07Time-ordered products and Hollands-Wald renormalisation on curved spacetimes shipped
  248. 13.09.08Bunch-Davies state on de Sitter spacetime shipped
  249. 13.09.09Unruh effect via the Bisognano-Wichmann theorem shipped
  250. 13.09.10Hartle-Hawking and Unruh states on Schwarzschild shipped
  251. 13.09.11Quantum energy inequalities (Fewster) shipped
  252. 13.09.12The Peierls bracket and the covariant phase space of an interacting field theory shipped

Five-branch structure

§09 classical mechanics · §10 electromagnetism & special relativity · §11 statistical mechanics (physics flavor) · §12 quantum mechanics & QFT · §13 general relativity & cosmology. Plus existing §03 math-physics border units (Clifford, spin, Dirac, Yang-Mills, Atiyah-Singer) and §08 math-stat-mech (Onsager, RG, lattice gauge). See the physics plan for branch-by-branch detail.