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භෞතික විද්‍යාවේදී කතා කෙරෙනුයේ ද්‍රව්‍යය, ශක්තිය කාලය හා අවකාශය ගැනයි. ද්‍රව්‍යය වල ගුණ මෙන්ම ව්‍යුහයත්, ශක්තියේ ගුණ, ශක්තිය හා ද්‍රව්‍යය අතර අන්තර්ක්‍රියා, සහසම්බන්ධයද මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡාවට ගැනේ.

භෞතික විද්‍යාව අප අවට ලෝකස්වභාවය තේරුම් ගැනීමට ස්වාභාවධර්මය පිළිබ්ඳ හැදෑරීමක් ලෙසද හැඳින්විය හැකිය.

කාලය , අවකාශය , පදාර්ථය සහ ශක්තිය යන ඒවා පිළිබඳව සහ ඒවා අතර පවතින සම්බන්ධතා භෞතික විද්යාව තුලින් අධ්‍යයනය කරයි. එම හැදෑරීම් වර්ථමාන සහ අනාගත විද්‍යාව හා තාක්ෂණයේ දියුණුවට බෙහෙවින් උපකාරී වේ. ඉහත සඳහන් පරිදි එම අන්තර් සම්බන්ධතා පිළිබඳව හැදෑරීම් වලදී අපට භෞතික විද්‍යාව කොටස් දෙකකට බෙදිය හැක. එනම්,

  1. ශාස්ත්‍රීය භෞතික විද්‍යාව
  2. නූතන භෞතික විද්‍යාව වශයෙනි

ශාස්ත්‍රීය භෞතික විද්‍යාවට අයත් වන විශය පථයන් වන්නේ යාන්ත්‍ර විද්‍යාව, ආලෝකය විද්යුතය චුම්භක ශක්තිය ධ්වනිය හා තාපය යන ඒවාය. නවීන භෞතික විද්‍යාව යන වචනය සාමාන්‍යයෙන් භාවිතා වන්නේ ක්වන්ටම් භෞතික විද්‍යාව, පරමාණුක හා න්‍යෂ්ටික විද්‍යාව වැනි විෂය පථයන් සඳහාය. සාපේක්ෂතාවාදය ද මෙම ගණයට වැටේ.

භෞතික විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයනයන් සැලකීමේදී ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් කොටස් දෙකකට වැටේ. ඒවා නම්, ප්‍රායෝගික භෞතික විද්‍යාව හා න්‍යායික භෞතික විද්‍යාවයි. ප්‍රායෝගික භෞතික විද්‍යාව වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කරන්නේ නිරීක්ශණ ප්‍රථිඵල මත එළඹෙන නිගමන වලටය. න්‍යායික භෞතික විද්‍යාව ගණිතමය න්‍යායන්, සමීකරණ හා ගණනය කිරීම් මත වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමුකරයි.


හයිඩ්‍රජන් පරමාණුවේ ප්‍රථම ඉලෙක්ට්‍රෝන කවච වර්ණ ගැන්වූ සම්භාවිතා ඝනත්වහරස්කඩක් ලෙසින්

හැඳින්වීම

The deepest visible-light image of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Since antiquity, natural philosophers have sought to explain physical phenomena such as the movement of the planets and thenature of matter, and this pursuit was formerly the study known as "physics" (once spelled physike, in imitation of Aristotle). The emergence of modern physics as a science distinct from natural philosophy began with the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries and continued through the dawn of modern physics in the early 20th century. The field has continued to expand, with a growing body of research leading to discoveries such as the Standard Model of fundamental particles and a detailed history of the universe, along with revolutionary new technologies like nuclear weapons and semiconductors. Research today progresses on a vast array of topics, including high-temperature superconductivity, quantum computing, the search for the Higgs boson, and the attempt to develop a theory of quantum gravity. Firmly grounded in observations and experiments, with a rich set of theories expressed in elegant mathematics, physics has made a multitude of contributions to science, technology, and philosophy.

Discoveries in physics resonate throughout the natural sciences, and physics has been described as the "fundamental science" because other fields such as chemistry and biology investigate systems whose properties are based upon the laws of physics.[1] Chemistry, for example, is the science of substances formed by atoms and molecules in bulk, but the properties of chemical compounds are determined by the physical properties of their underlying molecules.

Experimental physics is closely related to engineering and technology. Physicists involved in basic research design and perform experiments with equipment such as particle accelerators and lasers, whereas physicists involved in applied research invent technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transistors.

Theoretical physics is closely related to mathematics, which provides the language of physical theories. While it is true that the first task of theory is to disclose relationships in a world-picture which agrees with experience, an equally important part of its work is to formulate these relationships mathematically. The use of mathematics in theory represents a rationalization of thought, in that the process of deriving important conclusions from the initial hypotheses runs in the channels of formal rules of calculation. However, the position of mathematics in the field of theoretical physics implies that it is not the problem of the theoretical physicist to devise mathematical proofs and, indeed, the strict requirements of mathematics often contradict the physical facts. Theoretical physicists also often rely on numerical analysis and computer simulations, and, thus, computers and computer programming have an ever richer role in the formulation of physical models. In fact, the fields of mathematical and computational physics are active areas of research. Theoretical physics often relates to philosophy and metaphysics when it deals with speculative ideas like multidimensional spaces and parallel universes.

සිද්ධාන්ත

Although physicists study a wide variety of phenomena, there are certain theories that are used by all physicists. Each of these theories has been tested in numerous experiments and proven to be a correct approximation of nature within its domain of validity. For example, the theory of classical mechanics accurately describes the motion of objects, provided that they are much larger than atoms and move much slower than the speed of light. While these theories have long been well-understood, they continue to be areas of active research—for example, a remarkable aspect of classical mechanics known as chaos was discovered in the 20th century, three centuries after its original formulation by Isaac Newton (16421727). The "central theories" are important tools for research into more specialized topics, and all physicists are expected to be literate in them.

Typical thermodynamic system - heat moves from hot (boiler) to cold (condenser) and work is extracted

සිද්ධාන්ත සහ සංකල්ප

The table below lists many physical theories and the concepts they employ.

සිද්ධාන්තය ප්‍රධාන උප මාතෘකා සංකල්ප
පෞරාණික යාන්ත්‍ර විද්‍යාව චලිතය පිළිබඳ නිව්ටන් නියම , Lagrangian යාන්ත්‍ර විද්‍යාව, හැමිල්ටෝනියානුව mechanics, Kinematics, ස්ථිති විද්‍යාව, ගතිකය, Chaos theory, Acoustics, Fluid dynamics, Continuum mechanics ඝනත්වය, මානය, Gravity, ඉඩ අවකාශය, කාලය, චලිතය, දිග, Position, ප්‍රවේගය, ත්වරණය, Galilean invariance, ස්කන්ධය, ගම්‍යතාව, බලය, ශක්තිය, කෝණික ගම්‍යතාව, ව්‍යවර්තය, සංස්ථිතිය නියමය, Harmonic oscillator, තරංගය, Work, ජවය, Lagrangian, හැමිල්ටෝනියානුව, Tait-Bryan angles, Euler angles
විද්‍යුත් චුම්බකත්වය විද්‍යුත් ස්ථීතිකය, විද්‍යුත් ගති විද්‍යාව, විද්‍යුතය, චුම්බකත්වය, චුම්බකස්ථිතිකය, Maxwell's equations, ප්‍රකාශ විද්‍යාව ධාරිතාව, විද්‍යුත් ආරෝපණය, ධාරාව, විද්‍යුත් සන්නායකතාව, විද්‍යුත් ක්ෂේත්‍රය, විද්‍යුත් පාරවේද්‍යුතාව, විද්‍යුත් විභවය, විද්‍යුත් ප්‍රතිරෝධය, විද්‍යුත් චුම්බක ක්ෂේත්‍රය, විද්‍යුත් චුම්බක ප්‍රේරණය, විද්‍යුත්චුම්බක විකිරණය, Gaussian surface, චුම්බක ක්ෂේත්‍රය, චුම්බක ස්‍රාවය, චුම්බක ඒකධ්‍රැවය, චුම්බක පාරගම්‍යතාව
තාපගති විද්‍යාව සහ සංඛ්‍යාන යාන්ත්‍ර විද්‍යාව Heat engine, Kinetic theory Boltzmann's constant, Conjugate variables, එන්තැල්පිය, එන්ට්‍රෝපිය, Equation of state, Equipartition theorem, Free energy, තාපය, Ideal gas law, අභ්‍යන්තර ශක්තිය, Laws of thermodynamics, Maxwell relations, Irreversible process, Ising model, Mechanical action, Partition function, Pressure, Reversible process, Spontaneous process, State function, Statistical ensemble, උෂ්ණත්වය, තාපගතික සමතුලිතතාව, තාපගතික විභවය, තාපගතික කාර්යාවලිය, Thermodynamic state, තාපගතික පද්ධති, දුස්ස්‍රාවිතාවය, පරිමාව, කාර්යය, Granular material
ක්වොන්ටම් යාන්ත්‍ර විද්‍යාව Path integral formulation, Scattering theory, Schrödinger equation, Quantum field theory, Quantum statistical mechanics Adiabatic approximation, Blackbody radiation, Correspondence principle, Free particle, Hamiltonian, Hilbert space, Identical particles, Matrix Mechanics, Planck's constant, Observer effect, Operators, Quanta, Quantization, Quantum entanglement, Quantum harmonic oscillator, Quantum number, Quantum tunneling, Schrödinger's cat, Dirac equation, Spin, Wavefunction, Wave mechanics, Wave-particle duality, Zero-point energy, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
සාපේක්ෂතාව Special relativity, General relativity, Einstein field equations Covariance, Einstein manifold, Equivalence principle, Four-momentum, Four-vector, General principle of relativity, Geodesic motion, Gravity, Gravitoelectromagnetism, Inertial frame of reference, Invariance, Length contraction, Lorentzian manifold, Lorentz transformation, Mass-energy equivalence, Metric, Minkowski diagram, Minkowski space, Principle of Relativity, Proper length, Proper time, Reference frame, Rest energy, Rest mass, Relativity of simultaneity, Spacetime, Special principle of relativity, Speed of light, Stress-energy tensor, Time dilation, Twin paradox, World line

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පර්යේෂණ

Contemporary research in physics is divided into several distinct fields.

  • Condensed matter physics is concerned with how the properties of bulk matter, such as the ordinary solids and liquids we encounter in everyday life, arise from the properties and mutual interactions of the constituent atoms. A topic of current interest is high-temperature superconductivity.
  • Particle physics, also known as "high-energy physics", is concerned with the properties of submicroscopic particles much smaller than atoms, including elementary particles such as electrons, photons, and quarks. A topic of current interest is the search for the Higgs boson.

Since the twentieth century, the individual fields of physics have become increasingly specialized, and today most physicists work in a single field for their entire careers. "Universalists" such as Albert Einstein (18791955) and Lev Landau (19081968), who worked in multiple fields of physics, are now very rare.

සිද්දාන්ත සහ පර්යේෂණ, ශුද්ධ සහ ව්‍යවහාරික

The culture of physics research differs from most sciences in the separation of theory and experiment. Since the twentieth century, most individual physicists have specialized in either theoretical physics or experimental physics. The great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (19011954), who made fundamental contributions to both theory and experimentation in nuclear physics, was a notable exception. In contrast, almost all the successful theorists in biology and chemistry (e.g. American quantum chemist and biochemist Linus Pauling) have also been experimentalists, although this is changing as of late.

Roughly speaking, theorists seek to develop through abstractions and mathematical models theories that can both describe and interpret existing experimental results, and successfully predict future results, while experimentalists devise and perform experiments to explore new phenomena and test theoretical predictions. Although theory and experiment are developed separately, they are strongly dependent upon each other. Progress in physics frequently comes about when experimentalists make a discovery that existing theories cannot account for, necessitating the formulation of new theories. Likewise, ideas arising from theory often inspire new experiments. In the absence of experiment, theoretical research can go in the wrong direction; this is one of the criticisms that has been leveled against M-theory, a popular theory in high-energy physics for which no practical experimental test has ever been devised. Theorists working closely with experimentalists frequently employ phenomenology.

Applied physics is physics that is intended for a particular technological or practical use, as for example in engineering, as opposed to basic research. This approach is similar to that of applied mathematics. Applied physics is rooted in the fundamental truths and basic concepts of the physical sciences, but is concerned with the use of scientific principles in practical devices and systems, and in the application of physics in other areas of science. "Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination of factors such as the motivation and attitude of researchers and the nature of the relationship to the technology or science that may be affected by the work. [1]

උප ක්ෂේත්‍රය

The table below lists many of the fields and subfields of physics along with the theories and concepts they employ.

ක්ෂේත්‍රය උප ක්ෂේත්‍ර ප්‍රධාන සිද්ධාන්ත සංකල්ප
තාරකා භෞතික විද්‍යාව අජටාකාශවිද්‍යාව, ගුරුත්වාකර්ෂණ භෞතික විද්‍යාව, High-energy astrophysics, Planetary astrophysics, Plasma physics, Space physics, Stellar astrophysics Big Bang, Lambda-CDM model, Cosmic inflation, General relativity, Newton's law of universal gravitation Black hole, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmic string, Cosmos, Dark energy, Dark matter, මන්දාකිනිය, ගුරුත්වය, Gravitational radiation, Gravitational singularity, Planet, Solar system, තාරකා, Supernova, විශ්වය
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Atomic physics, Molecular physics, Atomic and Molecular astrophysics, Chemical physics, ප්‍රකාශ විද්‍යාව, Photonics Quantum optics, Quantum chemistry, Quantum information science පෝටෝනය, පරමාණුව, අණුව, විවර්තනය, විද්‍යුත් චුම්බක විකිරණය, Laser, Polarization, Spectral line, Casimir effect
Particle physics න්‍යෂ්ටික භෞතික විද්‍යාව, න්‍යෂ්ටික තාරකා භෞතික විද්‍යාව, Particle astrophysics, Particle physics phenomenology Standard Model, Quantum field theory, Quantum electrodynamics, Quantum chromodynamics, Electroweak theory, Effective field theory, Lattice field theory, Lattice gauge theory, Gauge theory, Supersymmetry, Grand unification theory, Superstring theory, M-theory Fundamental force (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak, strong), Elementary particle, Spin, Antimatter, Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Neutrino oscillation, Seesaw mechanism, Brane, String, Quantum gravity, Theory of everything, Vacuum energy
Condensed matter physics Solid state physics, High pressure physics, Low-temperature physics, Surface Physics,Nanoscale and Mesoscopic physics, Polymer physics BCS theory, Bloch wave, Fermi gas, Fermi liquid, Many-body theory Phases (වායු, ද්‍රව, ඝන, Bose-Einstein condensate, අධිසන්නායකය, superfluid), විද්‍යුත් සන්නයනය, චුම්බකත්වය, Self-organization, Spin, Spontaneous symmetry breaking
ව්‍යවහාරික භෞතික විද්‍යාව ත්වරක භෞතික විද්‍යාව, ධ්වනි විද්‍යාව, Agrophysics, ජෛවභෞතික විද්‍යාව, රසායනික භෞතික විද්‍යාව, Communication Physics, Econophysics, ඉංනේරු භෞතික විද්‍යාව , තරල ගතිවිද්‍යාව, භූ භෞතික විද්‍යාව, Materials physics, Medical physics, Nanotechnology, ප්‍රකාශ විද්‍යාව, Optoelectronics, Photovoltaics, Physical chemistry, Physics of computation, ප්ලාස්මා භෞතික විද්‍යාව, Solid-state devices, Quantum chemistry, ක්වොන්ටම් ඉලෙක්ට්‍රෝනික විද්‍යාව, Quantum information science, Vehicle dynamics

ඉතිහාසය

Aristotle

Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the workings of Nature and the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. The character of the universe was also a mystery, for instance the earth and the behavior of celestial objects such as the sun and the moon. Several theories were proposed, most of which were incorrect, such as the earth orbiting the moon. These first theories were largely couched in philosophical terms, and never verified by systematic experimental testing, as is popular today. The works of Ptolemy and Aristotle were not always found to match everyday observations. There were exceptions and there are anachronisms - for example, Indian philosophers and astronomers gave many correct descriptions in atomism and astronomy, and the Greek mathematician Archimedes derived many correct quantitative descriptions of mechanics and hydrostatics.

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Ibn al-Haitham (Alhazen)

The willingness to question previously held truths and search for new answers eventually resulted in a period of major scientific advancements, now known as the Scientific Revolution of the late seventeenth century. The precursors to the scientific revolution may be traced back to the important developments made in India and Persia, including the elliptical model of the planets based on the heliocentric solar system of gravitation developed by Indian mathematician-astronomer Aryabhata; the basic ideas of atomic theory developed by Hindu and Jaina philosophers; the theory of light being equivalent to energy particles developed by the Indian Buddhist scholars Dignāga and Dharmakirti; the optical theory of light developed by Muslim scientist Ibn al-Haitham (Alhazen); the Astrolabe invented by the Persian astronomer Muhammad al-Fazari; and the significant flaws in the Ptolemaic system pointed out by Persian scientist Nasir al-Din Tusi.

විද්‍යාත්මක විප්ලවය

As the influence of the Arab Empire expanded to Europe, the works of Aristotle, preserved by the Arabs, and the works of the Indians and Persians, became known in medieval Europe by the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543

This eventually led to the scientific revolution, held by most historians (e.g., Howard Margolis) to have begun in 1543, when the first printed copy of Nicolaus Copernicus's De Revolutionibus was brought to the influential astronomer from Nuremberg (Nürnberg), where it had been printed by Johannes Petreius. Most of its contents had been written years prior, but the publication had been delayed. Copernicus died soon after receiving the copy.

Galileo Galilei

Further significant advances were made over the following century by Galileo Galilei, Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Kepler, and Blaise Pascal. During the early seventeenth century, Galileo pioneered the use of experimentation to validate physical theories, which is the key idea in modern scientific method. Galileo formulated and successfully tested several results in dynamics, in particular the Law of Inertia.

Sir Isaac Newton

The scientific revolution is considered to have culminated with the publication of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 by the mathematician, physicist, alchemist and inventor Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727).In 1687, Newton published the Principia, detailing two comprehensive and successful physical theories: Newton's laws of motion, from which arise classical mechanics; and Newton's Law of Gravitation, which describes the fundamental force of gravity. Both theories agreed well with experiment. The Principia also included several theories in fluid dynamics.

From the late seventeenth century onward, thermodynamics was developed by physicist and chemist Boyle, Young, and many others. In 1733, Bernoulli used statistical arguments with classical mechanics to derive thermodynamic results, initiating the field of statistical mechanics. In 1798, Thompson demonstrated the conversion of mechanical work into heat, and in 1847 Joule stated the law of conservation of energy, in the form of heat as well as mechanical energy. Ludwig Boltzmann, in the nineteenth century, is responsible for the modern form of statistical mechanics.

Classical mechanics was re-formulated and extended by Leonhard Euler, French mathematician Joseph-Louis Comte de Lagrange, Irish mathematical physicist William Rowan Hamilton, and others, who produced new results in mathematical physics. The law of universal gravitation initiated the field of astrophysics, which describes astronomical phenomena using physical theories.

After Newton defined classical mechanics, the next great field of inquiry within physics was the nature of electricity. Observations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century by scientists such as Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray, and Benjamin Franklin created a foundation for later work. These observations also established our basic understanding of electrical charge and current.

The existence of the atom was proposed in 1808 by John Dalton.

James Clerk Maxwell

In 1821, the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday integrated the study of magnetism with the study of electricity. This was done by demonstrating that a moving magnet induced an electric current in a conductor. Faraday also formulated a physical conception of electromagnetic fields. James Clerk Maxwell built upon this conception, in 1864, with an interlinked set of twenty equations that explained the interactions between electric and magnetic fields. These twenty equations were later reduced, using vector calculus, to a set of four equations by Oliver Heaviside.

In addition to other electromagnetic phenomena, Maxwell's equations also can be used to describe light. Confirmation of this observation was made with the 1888 discovery of radio by Heinrich Hertz and in 1895 when Wilhelm Roentgen detected X-rays.

නූතන භෞතික විද්‍යාව

The ability to describe light in electromagnetic terms helped serve as a springboard for Albert Einstein's publication of the theory of special relativity in 1905. This theory combined classical mechanics with Maxwell's equations. The theory of special relativity unifies space and time into a single entity, spacetime. Relativity prescribes a different transformation between reference frames than classical mechanics; this necessitated the development of relativistic mechanics as a replacement for classical mechanics. In the regime of low (relative) velocities, the two theories agree. Einstein built further on the special theory by including gravity into his calculations, and published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

One part of the theory of general relativity is Einstein's field equation. This describes how the stress-energy tensor creates curvature of spacetime and forms the basis of general relativity. Further work on Einstein's field equation produced results which predicted the Big Bang, black holes, and the expanding universe. Einstein believed in a static universe. He tried, and failed, to fix his equation to allow for this. By 1929, however, Edwin Hubble's astronomical observations suggested that the universe is expanding at a possibly exponential rate.

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Marie Sklodowska-Curie

In 1895, Röntgen discovered X-rays, which turned out to be high-frequency electromagnetic radiation.

වසර 1895 දී, රොන්ජන් විසින් අධි සංඛ්යාeත විද්යු ත් චුම්බක විකිරණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ පරීක්ෂණයක ප්ර තිඵලයක් ලෙස x-කිරණ සොයා ගන් නා ලදී. එ්ය සමගම , 1896 දී හෙන්ඩ්රිි බෙකරල් විසින් විකිරණශීලතාව සොයා ගන්නා ලදී . එසේම මාරි කියුරි සහ පියරි කියුරි ද වැඩි දුර මේ පිළිබඳ අධ්ය.නයක නිරත වූහ . මෙය න්යයෂ්ටික භෞතික විද්යා්වේ ප්රාරරම්භය විය . 1897 දී ජෝසප් ජේ. ‍ තොම්සන් විසින් ඉලෙක්ට්රෝින‍ය සොයා ගන්නා ලදී . එය විද්යුවත් පරිපථ වල විද්යුාත් ධාරාව ගෙන යන ප්රාරථමික අංශුව වේ. ඔහු 1904 දී පරමාණුව පිළිබඳ පළමු ආකෘතිය ඉදිරිපත් කළේය . එය හැඳින් වූයේ “plum pudding model” ලෙසය. එය 1808 දී ජෝන් ඩෝල්ටන් ඉදිරිපත් කළ සංකල්ප තුල ද තිබීය .

These discoveries revealed that the assumption of many physicists, that atoms were the basic unit of matter, was flawed, and prompted further study into the structure of atoms.


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Ernest Rutherford

In 1911, Ernest Rutherford deduced from scattering experiments the existence of a compact atomic nucleus, with positively charged constituents dubbed protons. Neutrons, the neutral nuclear constituents, were discovered in 1932 by Chadwick. The equivalence of mass and energy (Einstein, 1905) was spectacularly demonstrated during World War II, as research was conducted by each side into nuclear physics, for the purpose of creating a nuclear bomb. The German effort, led by Heisenberg, did not succeed, but the Allied Manhattan Project reached its goal. In America, a team led by Fermi achieved the first man-made nuclear chain reaction in 1942, and in 1945 the world's first nuclear explosive was detonated at Trinity site, near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

In 1900, Max Planck published his explanation of blackbody radiation. This equation assumed that radiators are quantized, which proved to be the opening argument in the edifice that would become quantum mechanics. By introducing discrete energy levels, Planck, Einstein, Niels Bohr, and others developed quantum theories to explain various anomalous experimental results.

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Erwin Schrödinger

Quantum mechanics was formulated in 1925 by Heisenberg and in 1926 by Schrödinger and Paul Dirac, in two different ways, that both explained the preceding heuristic quantum theories. In quantum mechanics, the outcomes of physical measurements are inherently probabilistic; the theory describes the calculation of these probabilities. It successfully describes the behavior of matter at small distance scales. During the 1920s Schrödinger, Heisenberg, and Max Born were able to formulate a consistent picture of the chemical behavior of matter, a complete theory of the electronic structure of the atom, as a byproduct of the quantum theory.

Quantum field theory was formulated in order to extend quantum mechanics to be consistent with special relativity. It was devised in the late 1940s with work by Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, and Freeman Dyson. They formulated the theory of quantum electrodynamics, which describes the electromagnetic interaction, and successfully explained the Lamb shift. Quantum field theory provided the framework for modern particle physics, which studies fundamental forces and elementary particles.

Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, in the 1950s, discovered an unexpected asymmetry in the decay of a subatomic particle. In 1954, Yang and Robert Mills then developed a class of gauge theories which provided the framework for understanding the nuclear forces (Yang, Mills 1954). The theory for the strong nuclear force was first proposed by Murray Gell-Mann. The electroweak force, the unification of the weak nuclear force with electromagnetism, was proposed by Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg and confirmed in 1964 by James Watson Cronin and Val Fitch. This led to the so-called Standard Model of particle physics in the 1970s, which successfully describes all the elementary particles observed to date.

Quantum mechanics also provided the theoretical tools for condensed matter physics, whose largest branch is solid state physics. It studies the physical behavior of solids and liquids, including phenomena such as crystal structures, semiconductivity, and superconductivity. The pioneers of condensed matter physics include Felix Bloch, who created a quantum mechanical description of the behavior of electrons in crystal structures in 1928. The transistor was developed by physicists John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley in 1947 at Bell Laboratories.

The two themes of the twentieth century, general relativity and quantum mechanics, appear inconsistent with each other. General relativity describes the universe on the scale of planets and solar systems, while quantum mechanics operates on sub-atomic scales. This challenge is being attacked by string theory, which treats spacetime as composed, not of points, but of one-dimensional objects, strings. Strings have properties similar to a common string (e.g., tension and vibration). The theories yield promising, but not yet testable, results. The search for experimental verification of string theory is in progress.

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The United Nations declared the year 2005, the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis, as the World Year of Physics.

අනාගතයේ දිශාව

Research in physics is progressing constantly on a large number of fronts, and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future.

In condensed matter physics, the greatest unsolved theoretical problem is the explanation for high-temperature superconductivity. Strong efforts, largely experimental, are being put into making workable spintronics and quantum computers.

In particle physics, the first pieces of experimental evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model have begun to appear. Foremost amongst these are indications that neutrinos have non-zero mass. These experimental results appear to have solved the long-standing solar neutrino problem in solar physics. The physics of massive neutrinos is currently an area of active theoretical and experimental research. In the next several years, particle accelerators will begin probing energy scales in the TeV range, in which experimentalists are hoping to find evidence for the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles.

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Thousands of particles explode from the collision point of two relativistic (100 GeV per ion) gold ions in the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; an experiment done in order to investigate the properties of a quark gluon plasma such as the one thought to exist in the ultrahot first few microseconds after the big bang

Theoretical attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity into a single theory of quantum gravity, a program ongoing for over half a century, have not yet borne fruit. Currently, the leading candidates are M-theory, superstring theory, and loop quantum gravity.

Many astronomical and cosmological phenomena have yet to be explained satisfactorily, including the existence of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, the baryon asymmetry, the acceleration of the universe, and the anomalous rotation rates of galaxies.

Although much progress has been made in high-energy, quantum, and astronomical physics, many everyday phenomena, involving complexity, chaos, or turbulence remain poorly understood. Complex problems that would appear to be soluble by a clever application of dynamics and mechanics, such as the formation of sand piles, nodes in trickling water, the shape of water droplets, mechanisms of surface tension catastrophes, or self-sorting in shaken heterogeneous collections are unsolved.

These complex phenomena have received growing attention since the 1970s for several reasons, not least of which has been the availability of modern mathematical methods and computers, which enabled complex systems to be modeled in new ways. The interdisciplinary relevance of complex physics also has increased, as exemplified by the study of turbulence in aerodynamics, or the observation of pattern formation in biological systems. In 1932, Horace Lamb correctly prophesied the success of the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the near-stagnant progress in the study of turbulence:

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic.

See also

Metaphysics

Further reading

A large number of textbooks, popular books, and webpages about physics are available for further reading.

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ස‍ටහන්

  1. The Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume I, Chapter III. Feynman, Leighton and Sands. ISBN 0-201-02115-3 For the philosophical issues of whether other sciences can be "reduced" to physics, see reductionism and special sciences.
  • Alpher, Herman, and Gamow. Nature 162,774 (1948). Wilson's 1978 Nobel lecture
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