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- Abampere [r]: Unit of electric current in the cgs-emu system of units; symbol abA; 1 abA = 10 A. [e]
- Ampere (unit) [r]: Unit of electric current; symbol A; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Bar (unit) [r]: A unit of pressure measurement (symbol: bar) defined as 100,000 Pascals. [e]
- Dyne [r]: Force in cgs system; symbol: dyn; 1 dyn = 10−5 N. [e]
- Electric constant [r]: The permittivity of empty space, equal to 1 in centimeter-gram-second electrostatic units and to 107/4πc2 farads per meter or, numerically, to 8.854 × 10-12 farad per meter in International System units. [e]
- Electric field [r]: force acting on an electric charge—a vector field. [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]
- Ether (physics) [r]: Medium that can carry electromagnetic waves (obsolete) [e]
- Farad [r]: SI unit of capacitance; symbol F: 1 F = 1 C/V [e]
- Force [r]: Vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application. [e]
- Free particle [r]: A particle that, in some sense, is not bound but is present in a 'field-free' space. [e]
- Galaxy rotation curve [r]: Graph of a galaxies curve, represented by a plot of the orbital velocity of the stars or gas in the galaxy on the y-axis against the distance from the center of the galaxy on the x-axis. [e]
- Galileo Probe [r]: An unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. [e]
- George Berkeley [r]: 17th century Irish philosopher famous for defending a form of idealism which rejected the existence of material substance. [e]
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz [r]: German philosopher and mathematician (1646-1716), one of the leading rationalists, with Newton one of the discoverers of calculus, but best known among philosophers for his view that the universe is ultimately composed of "simple souls" called "monads." [e]
- Harmonic oscillator (classical) [r]: A system which, when displaced from its equilibrium position, experiences a restoring force, proportional to the displacement. [e]
- Hindenburg (LZ-129) [r]: Large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the largest flying machines of any kind ever built, until destroyed by fire on 6 May 1937. [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]
- Joule [r]: The SI unit of energy (symbol: J) which is a measure of the capacity to do work or generate heat. [e]
- Kilogram [r]: The kilogram is the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI, metric system). [e]
- Leonhard Euler [r]: (1707 - 1783) Swiss mathematician and physicist; one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. [e]
- Magnetic constant [r]: Is proportionality factor in Ampère's equation which relates mechanical force and electric current. [e]
- Maxwell equations [r]: Mathematical equations describing the interrelationship between electric and magnetic fields; dependence of the fields on electric charge- and current- densities. [e]
- Metre (unit) [r]: Unit of length; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Momentum [r]: mass of a particle times its velocity (a vector). [e]
- Pascal (unit) [r]: The SI unit of pressure; the force of one newton acting uniformly over an area of one square metre. [e]
- Planck's constant [r]: The constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to the frequency of that photon, named sfter Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. [e]
- Pressure [r]: A ratio equal to the force applied perpendicular to the surface of the area divided by that area (force/area). [e]
- Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory that supporters claim to be scientific but which the scientific community deems fallacious [e]
- Second [r]: Unit of time; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Spherical polar coordinates [r]: Angular coordinates on a sphere: longitude angle φ, colatitude angle θ [e]
- Thomas Hobbes [r]: English political philosopher of the 17th century. [e]
- Vapor pressure [r]: The pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its liquid or solid phase. [e]
- Viking program [r]: The successful mission of space probes to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2, each designed to study the planet, and launched 20 August 1975, and 9 September 1975 respectively. [e]
- Weber (unit) [r]: SI unit of magnetic flux; symbol Wb; 1 Wb = 1 V⋅s. [e]
