Naitural philosophy whiles criedphýsics (frae theGreekφυσικός (phusikós), "naitural", anφύσις (phúsis), "naitur") is ascience o naitur in the braidest sense. Naitural philosophy speirs intaemaiter an energy an the fundamental virrs o naitur that owersees the interactions atween pairticles. Phýsicists study mony phýsical phenomenae, frae the sub-nuclear pairticles that maks up aw ordinar maiter (pairticle phýsics) tae the maiteral Universe as a hail (cosmologie).
Forby sib concepts sic asenergy andforce, phýsics is the natural science at involves the study o matter and its motion inspace andtime. Mair braidly, it is the general analysis o natur, conductit for tae ken hou theuniverse wirks. It ane o the auldest academic disciplines, aiblins the auldest gin astronomy is includit. Ower the last twa millennie, phýsics wis a pairt o naitural philosophy alang wichemistry, certain branches omathematics, andbiology, but efter thescientific revolution in the17th century, the naitural sciences becam unique research programs in their ain richt. Phýsics intersects wi mony interdisciplinary areas o research, sic asbiophýsics and quantum chemistry, and the boondaries o phýsics arenae weel defined. New ideas in phýsics aften expleen the fundamental mechanisms o ither sciences while oppenin new avenues o research in fields sic as mathematics andphilosophy.
