SCIENCE HUB · PHYSICS
Physics Tracks What Changes, What Moves, What Transfers and What Remains Conserved
From a push on a toy to fields, circuits and wave models, Physics asks which quantities matter, how they relate and whether a model predicts what the world actually does.
Forces & Motion
Electricity & Circuits
Light, Sound & Waves
Everyday signals → wave quantities → reflection → refraction → superposition →
Physics Reasoning Routes
- Conservation reasoning
- Gradients drive flow
- Rates, thresholds and changing conditions
- System boundaries
- Reversible and irreversible changes
- Models for invisible relationships
- Measurement, units, precision and repeatability
- Diagrams, tables and graphs as evidence
- Extrapolation and confidence
Physics Through the Learning Stages
- P3: magnets and formal observation
- P4: matter, light and heat
- P5: electricity and integrated systems
- P6: energy conversion and forces
- Sec 1: forces, energy and formal measurement
- Sec 3: disciplinary Physics
- JC1: formal Physics models and mathematics
- University: approximation, mathematical models and measurement
Wider canonical Science estate: continue into eduKate Science World for deeper physical-world Learning Manuals and cross-disciplinary routes.
New Physics Learning Routes
These newer articles extend the Physics corridor through thermal physics, electromagnetism, fluids, nuclear physics, mechanics, thermodynamics, oscillations and modern electronics.
- Heat & Temperature
- Magnetism & Electromagnetism
- Pressure & Fluids
- Radioactivity & Nuclear Decay
- Momentum, Impulse & Collisions
- Rotational Motion & Angular Momentum
- Thermodynamics & Entropy
- Oscillations, Resonance & Simple Harmonic Motion
- Semiconductors & Transistors
Earth & Space corridor: Earth & Space Science → owns the new geology, atmosphere, oceans, planetary and stellar route. Spectroscopy and orbital mechanics remain cross-disciplinary bridges back into Physics rather than duplicate owners.
Physics Expansion II | Quantum, Nuclear and Complex Flow
- Quantum Measurement, Superposition & Tunnelling
- Nuclear Fission, Fusion & Reactor Physics
- Turbulence & Flow Instability
New Materials corridor: Materials Science → becomes the owner when force, energy, electronic or transport mechanisms are being integrated to explain a material’s structure, damage, surface behaviour or service performance. Physics keeps the mechanism; Materials keeps the material-performance job.
Instrumentation bridge: NMR & MRI uses quantum/spin physics, but its dominant Science-Hub route is measurement, encoding and reconstruction under Scientific Method & Evidence.
New Physics Routes
These additions extend the Physics corridor into coupled fields, plasmas and precision measurement at the quantum limit.
- Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasma Flows
- Quantum Sensing and Precision Metrology
- Aerodynamics & Flight
- Electrostatics, Capacitance & Dielectrics
- Lasers & Photonics
- Neutrinos & Particle Detection
- Cryogenics & Low-Temperature Physics
- Wave Optics, Interference & Polarization
- Statistical Mechanics & Ensembles
- Superconductivity & Quantum Materials
Recovered Physics Route | Plasma Physics
How to Learn Plasma Physics → belongs directly in Physics because collective charged-particle behaviour, fields, waves, drifts and kinetic/fluid model boundaries are the dominant scientific job. It also bridges naturally into Magnetohydrodynamics, fusion and space weather.
Recovered Physics Routes | Particles, Spin and Acoustic Waves
- Cosmic Rays and Particle Astrophysics →
- Spintronics and Magnetic Memory →
- Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors and Acoustofluidics →
- Scientific Instrumentation, Imaging & Measurement → — for the expanded detection, spectroscopy, magnetic, electrical and wave-measurement estate.
Explore connected Science ideas
Open the Science Connection Map →
- Explore: Physiology and Biochemistry become candidates when fields, forces, transport or energy conversion act inside living systems.
- Related reading: Instrumentation · Materials · Earth & Space · Systems.
- Underlying connection: Physiology & Mechanobiology is a genuine physics bridge through membrane potentials, mechanosensitive channels, acoustics, fluid flow, tissue forces and imaging—not because Biology is “really Physics”, but because physical constraints shape biological function.
- Read further: Physics → Instrumentation → Evidence → Research judgement.
Connected corridors: Chemistry · Systems, Scale, Time & Change · Scientific Method & Evidence · Science Hub.
