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Within this view of physics, any other phenomenon that is usually attributed to centrifugal force can be used to identify absolute rotation.

Based upon the laws of physics, a model is set up in which one parameter is the rate of rotation of the Universe.

If the laws of physics agree more accurately with observations in a model with rotation than without it, we are inclined to select the best-fit value for rotation, subject to all other pertinent experimental observations.

For example, the three-dimensional object physics calls angular velocity is a differential rotation, thus a vector in the Lie algebra tangent to SO ( 3 ).

In physics and mathematics, a pseudovector ( or axial vector ) is a quantity that transforms like a vector under a proper rotation, but gains an additional sign flip under an improper rotation such as a reflection.

Under the physics definition, a " vector " is required to have components that " transform " in a certain way under a proper rotation: In particular, if everything in the universe were rotated, the vector would rotate in exactly the same way.

In physics, angular frequency ω ( also referred to by the terms angular speed, radial frequency, circular frequency, orbital frequency, and radian frequency ) is a scalar measure of rotation rate.

In physics, translation ( Translational motion ) is movement that changes the position of an object, as opposed to rotation.

* Translation ( physics ), movement that changes the position of an object, moving every point the same distance in the same direction, without rotation, reflection or change in size

The physics of orbital mechanics does not phase-lock the rotation of the Earth ( the day ) to its revolution ( the year ), nor the rotation of the Earth ( the day ) to the revolution of the Moon ( the month ).

In physics, the Faraday effect or Faraday rotation is a Magneto-optical phenomenon, that is, an interaction between light and a magnetic field in a medium.

Modern physics deals with three basic types of spatial symmetry: reflection, rotation and translation.

In physics, circular motion is a movement of an object along the circumference of a circle or rotation along a circular path or a circular orbit.

In physics, the stretch rule states that the moment of inertia of a rigid object is unchanged when the object is stretched parallel to the axis of rotation, ( without changing the distribution of mass except in the direction parallel to the axis ).

According to the laws of classical physics, it has both a magnetic dipole moment and an angular momentum due to its rotation.

While an electron's spin is sometimes visualized as a literal rotation about an axis, it is in fact a fundamentally different, quantum-mechanical phenomenon with no true analogue in classical physics.

h ( g, x ) where h rotates any vectors and pseudovectors in x, and inverts any vectors ( but not pseudovectors ) according to rotation and inversion in g, see symmetry in physics.

In physics and mathematics, a pseudotensor is usually a quantity that transforms like a tensor under an orientation preserving coordinate transformation ( e. g., a proper rotation ), but additionally changes sign under an orientation reversing coordinate transformation ( e. g., an improper rotation, which is a transformation that can be expressed as a proper rotation followed by reflection ).

In theoretical physics, the nonsymmetric gravitational theory ( NGT ) of John Moffat is a classical theory of gravitation which tries to explain the observation of the flat rotation curves of galaxies.

At the lycée in Rennes when he was 15, he led of a group of boys who devoted much time and energy to poking fun at their well-meaning, but obese and incompetent physics teacher, a man named Hébert.

The physics building at Heriot-Watt University is named in his honour.

* The Fermilab particle accelerator and physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, is named after him.

It was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, one of the pioneers of nuclear physics.

Also, a free open-source physics library for 3D deformable object simulation Vega FEM has been named after Jurij Vega.

In physics, the Navier – Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, describe the motion of fluid substances.

The Fourier transform, named after Joseph Fourier, is a mathematical transform with many applications in physics and engineering.

In physics and chemistry, the Faraday constant ( named after Michael Faraday ) is the magnitude of electric charge per mole of electrons.

A year later he was named adjutant to the Russian Academy of Science in the physics department.

It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor.

The physics department tower at the University of Colorado at Boulder is named after him.

The first test scenario used to try out controls and physics involved Mario and a golden rabbit named " MIPS " by the developers ( named for the MIPS-type CPU used by the Nintendo 64 ), the latter of which was included in the final release of the game as a means to obtain two of the Power Stars.

Fourier (; ) most commonly refers to Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist, or the mathematics, physics, and engineering terms named in his honor for his work on the concepts underlying them:

This should not be confused with the principle in physics with the same name, named after Jacob Bernoulli's nephew Daniel Bernoulli.

Instituted in 1902, it is named after the physics professor Robert Thalén.

It was there that he tutored a young Marine aviator named John Glenn in math and physics.

In physics and mathematics, the Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré, is the group of isometries of Minkowski spacetime.

In mathematical physics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime ( named after the mathematician Hermann Minkowski ) is the mathematical setting in which Einstein's theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated.

The Dirac Prize is the name of four prominent awards in the field of theoretical physics, computational chemistry, and mathematics, awarded by different organizations, named in honour of Professor Paul Dirac, one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20th Century.

* Boyle's law, in physics, one of the gas laws ; named after English natural philosopher Robert Boyle

Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour, with interesting applications in contemporary mathematical physics and geometry.

* Joule Physics Laboratory provides a suite of new, purpose-built physics teaching laboratories and is named after James Prescott Joule, whose former home is situated opposite the Peel Building.

This distance can also be called fermi and was so named in honour of Enrico Fermi and is often encountered in nuclear physics as a characteristic of this scale.

The fermi is named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi ( 1901 – 1954 ), one of the founders of nuclear physics.