The word "physics" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the study of matter, energy, and their interactions. For example, "My sister studies physics at college."
"What is Trigonometry?" by Fergus Ray Murray 'Trigonometry is the branch of mathematics that deals with triangles, circles, oscillations and waves; it is absolutely crucial to much of geometry and physics.
'Closing the gap' marking saw the physics department develop ways to enable students to act on written feedback.
This event came to mind last week when reading yet another story about girls' collective failure to study physics at the same rate as boys.
In 1963 they moved to Norwich, where Norman became professor of chemical physics at the newly minted UEA, staying there for the rest of his career.
Looked at in this way, the question we need to answer is less "Why do so few girls choose physics?" and more "Why do so many boys only choose physics and maths-related subjects?" After all, if they spread themselves out across all other subjects, girls would no longer be regularly outnumbered in physics.
And while half of all boys who receive an A* in GCSE physics continue to study the subject to 18, for girls that figure is less than one in five.
I chose physics because I enjoyed it, and although I'm not now doing anything directly related, I think the skills I learned are transferable.
In a echo of the impossibility this week of tracking down the winners of the prizes for physics and literature, Peter Higgs and Alice Monro, the Nobel committee tweeted that it had been unable to immediately speak to the OPCW to formally let it know of the win.
I enjoyed The Explorer by James Smythe (HarperCollins), a science-fiction nightmare that is short on physics, but strong on tension and metaphysics.
This extremely general applicability of the idea of sine waves results in trigonometric functions turning up everywhere you look in physics.
The novel's protagonist Michael Beard has been awarded a Nobel prize for his pioneering work on physics, and has discovered that winning the coveted prize has interfered with his work.
