List of physics topics R-Z

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

R

• Rabi, Isidor Isaac
• Radiation
• Radiation of sound
• Radiation pressure
• Radioactivity
• Rainwater, Leo James
• Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata
• Raman spectroscopy
• Ramsey, Norman
• Rayleigh
• Rayleigh scattering
• Rayleigh-Taylor
• Rayleigh, Lord
• Reflection
• Reflection coefficient
• Refractive index
• Redshift
• Reines, Frederik
• Renormalization
• Resistance
• Resolution of the identity
• Resonance
• Rest mass
• Reynolds, Osbourne
• Reynolds number
• Ricci tensor
• Richardson, Owen Willans
• Richardson, Robert C
• Richardson number
• Richter, Burton
• Richtmyer-Meshkov
• Riemann, Bernhard
• Riemannian geometry
• Riemannian manifold
• Ring wave guide
• Robertson, Howard Percy
• Rohrer, Heinrich
• Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad
• Rosen, Nathan
• Rotation
• Rotation group
• Rotation operator
• Rotational invariance
• Rubbia, Carlo
• Ruska, Ernst
• Rutherford cross section
• Rutherford scattering
• Rutherford, Ernest
• Rydberg, Johannes
• Ryle, Sir Martin

S

• Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich
• Salam, Abdus
• Felix Savart
• Scalar
• Scalar field
• Scanning tunneling microscope
• Scattering
• Schawlow, Arthur Leonard
• Schrieffer, John Robert
• Schrödinger equation
• Schrödinger's cat
• Schrödinger, Erwin
• Schwartz, Melvin
• Schwarzschild, Karl
• Schwarzschild metric
• Schwarzschild radius
• Schwinger, Julian
• Science
• Science (journal)
• Scientific method
• Scientific journal
• Scientific paper
• Scientific revolution
• Screened Coulomb potential
• Second Superstring Revolution
• Segrè, Emilio Gino
• Self-adjoint operator
• Semiconductor
• Semiconductor device fabrication
• Separability
• Separable
• Shape of the universe
• Shock wave
• Shockley, William Bradford
• Shull, Clifford G
• SI base unit
• SI derived unit
• SI prefix
• Siegbahn, Kai M
• Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg
• Simple harmonic motion
• Simultaneity
• Sine wave
• Singular-value decomposition
• Slope
• Snell's law
• Snell, Willebrord
• SO(3)
• Solar cell
• Solar neutrino problem
• Solar power
• Solid
• Solid state
• Solid state physics
• Soliton
• Sommerfeld, Arnold
• Sound
• Space
• Space group
• Space-time
• Spacetime
• Special linear group
• Special relativity
• Specific gravity
• Spectral line
• Spectroscope
• Spectroscopy
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Optical spectrum
• Spectrum of a matrix
• Spectrum of an operator
• Speed
• Speed of gravity
• Speed of light
• Spherical coordinate system
• Spherical geometry
• Spin (physics)
• Spin glass
• Spin network
• Spin-statistics theorem
• Spinor
• Spinor field
• Spontaneous symmetry breaking
• Standard Model
• Stark, Johannes
• Stark effect
• Statcoulomb
• Statics
• Statistical Mechanics
• Statistical physics
• Statistics
• Stefan-Boltzmann constant
• Stefan-Boltzmann law
• Stefan electromagnetic equation
• Stefan's flow
• Stefan force
• Stefan, Jožef
• Stefan, Joseph
• Steinberger, Jack
• Stern, Otto
• Stevin, Simon
• Stokes, George Gabriel
• Stokes' law
• Stokes parameters
• Störmer, Horst L
• Strange matter
• Strangeness
• Stress-energy tensor
• String
• String theory
• Strnad, Janez
• Strong interaction
• Strong nuclear force
• Strutt, John William
• SU(2)
• SU(3)
• Subatomic particle
• Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
• Sun
• Sunyaev-Zel'dovic-Effect
• Super-Kamiokande
• Superconducting Super Collider
• Superconductivity
• Superconductor
• Superfluidity
• Supergravity
• Superparamagnetism
• Superstring theory
• Supersymmetry
• Surface tension
• Symmetric matrix
• Symmetric tensor
• Symmetry
• Synchrotron
• Synchrotron radiation
• Szilard, Leo

T

• T-duality

• T-symmetry
• Tachyon
• Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich
• Tauon
• Taylor series
• Taylor, Brook
• Taylor, Richard E
• Teller, Edward
• Temperature
• Tensor
• Tensor-classical
• Tensor product
• Tesla
• Tesla coil
• Tesla, Nikola
• The speed of light in vacuum
• Theorem of Lagrange
• Theoretical astrophysics
• Theoretical Chemistry
• Theoretical physics
• Theory
• Theory of everything
• Theory of invariants
• Theory of relativity
• Thermal conductance
• Thermal conductivity
• Thermal neutron
• Thermodynamics
• Thermodynamic properties
• Thermoelectric effect
• Thirring, Hans
• Thomas precession
• Thompson, Benjamin
• Thomson, George Paget
• Thomson, Joseph John
• Thomson, William
• Thought experiment
• Tide
• Tidal acceleration
• Tidal force
• Tidal locking
• Tidal resonance
• Time
• Time dilation
• Time invariance
• Time travel
• Timeline of classical mechanics
• Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics
• Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity
• Timeline of nuclear fusion
• Timeline of other background radiation fields
• Timeline of particle physics
• Timeline of particle physics technology
• Timeline of physics
• Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics
• Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
• Timeline of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and random processes
• Ting, Samuel Chao Chung
• TOE
• Tokamak
• Tomonaga
• Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro
• Topological group
• Topology of the universe
• Torque
• Torque/Angular momentum proof
• Torricelli, Evangelista
• Torsion
• Torsion subgroup
• Townes, Charles hard
• Transfer function
• Transition rule
• Transistor
• Translation (physics)
• Translational invariance
• Transpose
• Tsui, Daniel C
• Tunneling
• Turbulence
• Turbulent flow
• Twin paradox

U

• U(1)
• Ultraviolet catastrophe
• Uncertainty Principle
• Undulatory theory of light
• Unicity distance
• Unit cell
• Unitary group
• Unitary matrix
• Unitary operator
• Universal gas equation
• Unsolved problems in physics

V

• Vacuum
• van der Meer, Simon
• van der Waals, Johannes
• van der Waals equation
• van Vleck, John Hasbrouck
• Vector (spatial)
• Vector calculus
• Vector field
• Vector space
  • Vector space example 1
  • Vector space example 2
  • Vector space example 3
• Vehicle dynamics
• Velocity
• Veltman, Martinus J. G
• Vibrations
• Villari effect
• Virial equation of state
• Virtual force
• Virtual particle
• Viscosity
• Volta, Alessandro
• von Klitzing, Klaus
• von Weizsäcker, Carl

W

• W and Z bosons
• W boson
• Wallis, John
• Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton
• Walton, Thomas
• Ward, John Clive
• Wave
• Wave equation
• Wave-particle duality
• Wavefunction
• Wavefunction collapse
• Wavelength
• Weak decay
• Weak force
• Weak interaction
• Weak nuclear force
• Weber
• Weber, Wilhelm
• Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
• Weight
• Weigthlessness
• Weinberg, Steven
• Weisskopf, Victor
• Weyl, Hermann
• Weyl's postulate
• Weyl tensor
• Wiedemann effect
• Wieman, Carl E
• Wien's law
• Wien, Wilhelm
• Wigner, Eugene
• Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees
• Wilson, Kenneth G
• Wilson, Robert Woodrow
• Witten, Edward
• Work (physics)
• Worldline

X

• X-ray
• X-ray crystallography
• X-ray diffraction
• X-ray fluorescence
• X-ray structure

Y

• Yang, Chen Ning
• Yang-Mills theory
• Young, Thomas
• Yukawa, Hideki

Z

• Z boson
• Zeeman effect
• Zeeman, Pieter
• Zernike, Frits
• Zero-point energy
• Zitterbewegung motion
• Zone melting
• Zweig, George