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- Acceleration [r]: The increase of an objects velocity (or speed) per unit time. [e]
- Air pollutant concentrations [r]: Methods for conversion of air pollutant concentrations. [e]
- Albert Einstein [r]: 20th-century physicist who formulated the theories of relativity. [e]
- Amedeo Avogadro [r]: (August 9, 1776 – July 9, 1856). An Italian physicist who proposed in 1811 Avogadro's law. [e]
- André-Marie Ampère [r]: (Lyons 20 January, 1775 – Marseilles 10 June, 1836) French physicist and mathematician best known for his work in electricity and magnetism. [e]
- Astrophysics [r]: Hybrid of Physics and Astronomy that attempts to explain the physical workings of the celestial objects and phenomena. [e]
- Barycentre [r]: The centre of mass of a body or system of particles, a weighted average where certain forces may be taken to act. [e]
- Bicycle [r]: A human powered machine for transportation that employs two wheels. [e]
- Biology's next microscope: Mathematics [r]: A scientific discussion about the mutual interaction between mathematics and biology. [e]
- Biomechanics [r]: The study of the mechanics of biological systems [e]
- Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Blaise Pascal [r]: French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. [e]
- Boiling point [r]: The temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the external environmental pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid initiates boiling. [e]
- Carl Friedrich Gauss [r]: German mathematician, who was one of the most influential figures in the history of mathematics and mathematical physics (1777 – 1855). [e]
- Celsius [r]: Unit of temperature. [e]
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb [r]: (Angoulême June 14, 1736 – Paris August 23, 1806) French physicist known for formulating a law for the force between two electrically charged bodies. [e]
- Chemical thermodynamics [r]: The study of the interrelation of heat and work with chemical reactions or with physical changes of state within the confines of the laws of thermodynamics. [e]
- Choked flow [r]: A limiting point for the flow of a gas which occurs under specific conditions when the gas flows through a restriction (such as a valve, a convergent-divergent nozzle, the hole in an orifice plate, or a leak in a gas pipeline or other gas container) into a lower pressure environment. [e]
- Christiaan Huygens [r]: (14 April 1629 - 8 June 1695) an internationally renowned Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. [e]
- Classical mechanics [r]: The science of mechanics, which is concerned with the set of physical laws governing and mathematically describing the motions of bodies and aggregates of bodies geometrically distributed within a certain boundary under the action of a system of forces. [e]
- Compressibility factor (gases) [r]: A thermodynamic property for modifying the ideal gas law to account for behavior of real gases. [e]
- Concentration [r]: In science, engineering and in general common usage: the measure of how much of a given substance there is in a given mixture of substances. [e]
- Count Rumford [r]: (1753–1814) An American born soldier, statesman, scientist, inventor and social reformer. [e]
- Density (chemistry) [r]: A measure of the mass per unit volume of a gas, liquid or solid. [e]
- Edward Teller [r]: (January 15, 1908 - September 9, 2003) One of the most controversial scientists of the 20th century because of his role as the main developer of the hydrogen bomb, his outspoken defense of an unassailable nuclear arsenal, and support for President Reagan's Strategic Defensive Initiative. [e]
- Electric field [r]: force acting on an electric charge—a vector field. [e]
- Electricity [r]: The flow or presence of electric charge; the flow of electricity is an important carrier of energy. [e]
- Electromagnetism [r]: Phenomena and theories regarding electricity and magnetism. [e]
- Energy (science) [r]: A measurable physical quantity of a system which can be expressed in joules (the metric unit for a quantity of energy) or other measurement units such as ergs, calories, watt-hours or Btu. [e]
- Equation (mathematics) [r]: A mathematical relationship between quantities stated to be equal, seen as a problem involving variables for which the solution is the set of values for which the equality holds. [e]
- Ernest Rutherford [r]: (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937)The first person to split an atom. [e]
- Fahrenheit and Rankine temperatures [r]: Temperature scales, with the respective symbols of °F and °C, that are now used only in the United States, Belize and perhaps a few other countries. [e]
- Fluid dynamics [r]: The branch of physics that deals with the flow of fluids, i.e., liquids and gases. [e]
- Free particle [r]: A particle that, in some sense, is not bound but is present in a 'field-free' space. [e]
- Galileo Galilei [r]: (1564-1642) Italian scientist, a pioneer in combining mathematical theory with systematic experiment in science, who came into conflict with the Church. [e]
- Gas [r]: One of the major states of matter (i.e., gas, liquid, solid and plasma). [e]
- Gaussian units [r]: A centimeter-gram-second system of units often used in electrodynamics and special relativity. [e]
- Gravitation [r]: The tendency of objects with mass to accelerate toward each other. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Hans Bethe [r]: Physicist noted for contributions in nuclear reactions and theory. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1967. [e]
- Hans Christian Oersted [r]: (Rudkøbing, August 14, 1777 – Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) Danish physicist and chemist best known for his discovery of the influence of an electric current on the orientation of a compass needle. [e]
- Heat [r]: A form of energy that flows spontaneously from hotter to colder bodies that are in thermal contact. [e]
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz [r]: Dutch theoretical physicist (1853 - 1928) [e]
- International System of Units [r]: Metric unit system based on the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole and candela. [e]
- Isaac Newton [r]: (1642–1727) English physicist and mathematician, best known for his elucidation of the universal theory of gravitation and his development of calculus. [e]
- James Clerk Maxwell [r]: (1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistical theory of gases. [e]
- Jean-Baptiste Biot [r]: (Paris 1774 – Paris 1862) French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and chemist best known for the Biot-Savart law. [e]
- Josef Loschmidt [r]: (1821-1895) Scientist who made major contributions to physical chemistry, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and organic chemistry. [e]
- Joule-Thomson effect [r]: The increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is allowed to expand freely at constant enthalpy (meaning that no heat is transferred to or from the gas, and no external work is extracted from the gas). [e]
- Kelvin [r]: Unit of temperature; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Leonhard Euler [r]: (1707 - 1783) Swiss mathematician and physicist; one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. [e]
- Lord Rayleigh [r]: (1842 – 1919) physicist who made fundamental discoveries in the fields of acoustics and optics; 1904 Nobel Prize for isolation of argon. [e]
- Magnetism [r]: Property of attracting iron. [e]
- Marie Curie [r]: (1867-1934), Polish-French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1903) and chemist (Nobel Prize in 1911), famous for her work on radioactivity. [e]
- Mass [r]: The total amount of a substance, or alternatively, the total energy of a substance. [e]
- Measurement [r]: The act of quantifying a property of an object or relation; the output of the instrument or procedure that does the quantification [e]
- Mechanics [r]: In physics, all theories explaining the behaviour of matter. [e]
- Meteorology [r]: The interdisciplinary scientific study of the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere, including weather studies and forecasting [e]
- Michael Faraday [r]: (1791 – 1867) Was an English physicist and chemist whose best known work was on the closely connected phenomena of electricity and magnetism; his discoveries lead to the electrification of industrial societies. [e]
- Newton [r]: SI derived unit of force, named after Isaac Newton, equal to the amount of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one metre per second per second. [e]
- Nobel Prize [r]: A prestigious annual prize awarded according to the will of Swedish chemist and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel in the categories Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics. [e]
- Noether's theorem [r]: A theorem which states that any differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. [e]
- Normal force [r]: The perpendicular force with which two objects press against one another. [e]
- Nuclear chemistry [r]: Subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties. [e]
- Parts-per notation [r]: Notation used in science and engineering, to denote dimensionless proportionalities in measured quantities such as proportions at the parts-per-million (ppm), parts-per-billion (ppb), and parts-per-trillion (ppt) level. [e]
- Physical Review [r]: Highly respected physics scientific journal published by the American Physical Society (APS). [e]
- Physical chemistry [r]: The application of physics to macroscopic, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems within the field of chemistry traditionally using the principles, practices and concepts of thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics and kinetics. [e]
- Physicist [r]: A scientist specializing in the field of physics, the study of natural phenomena. [e]
- Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
- Pressure [r]: A ratio equal to the force applied perpendicular to the surface of the area divided by that area (force/area). [e]
- Reference conditions of gas temperature and pressure [r]: The temperature and pressure conditions that define the density of a gas and serve to document a stated gas volume. [e]
- Relative permittivity [r]: an intrinsic property of a dielectric; it is the proportionality constant between an electric field and an electric displacement in a dielectric. [e]
- Resultant (statics) [r]: A single force having the same effect as a system of forces acting at different points. [e]
- Richard Feynman [r]: (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) An American physicist known for his scientific acumen, humor, and charismatic charm; drummer and painter of scandalous paintings; member of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, then Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize winner in Physics, 1965; staff, Manhattan Project [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
- Simeon Denis Poisson [r]: (1781 – 1840) French mathematician known for his work on definite integrals, electromagnetic theory and probability theory. [e]
- Simple machine [r]: Six mechanical concepts, known from antiquity, which form the basis of many modern tools and machines [e]
- Sliding friction [r]: Sliding force resisting the relative lateral (tangential) motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, or material elements in contact. [e]
- Specific heat ratio [r]: The ratio of the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure,
, to the specific heat at constant volume, 
, also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor. [e]
- Temperature [r]: A fundamental quantity in physics - describes how warm or cold a system is. [e]
- Theoretical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by theoretical means. [e]
- Theoretical chemistry [r]: The description of atoms, molecules and reactions in mathematical form. [e]
- Thermodynamics [r]: The statistical description of the properties of molecular systems [e]
- Tonne [r]: A measurement of mass equal to 1000 kg, or almost exactly the mass of one cubic metre of pure water at 3.98 °C. [e]
- U.S. customary units [r]: The units of measurement that are currently used in the United States. [e]
- Van der Waals equation [r]: An equation of state for a fluid composed of particles that have a non-zero size and a pairwise attractive inter-particle force [e]
- Vapor pressure [r]: The pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its liquid or solid phase. [e]
- Vector (mathematics) [r]: A mathematical object with magnitude and direction. [e]
- Weak force [r]: One of the four fundamental forces. [e]
- Work (Physics) [r]: Form of energy transferred to a body by a force. [e]
- X-ray [r]: An ionizing type of electromagnetic radiation often used for structural investigations of matter. [e]
