Physics

Studying atomic structure to search for new superconductors.

📖 In short

Physics is the science of matter, energy and how the universe works. Physicists ask lots of questions: why do things fall? How do light and sound travel? What is electricity? What is an atom made of? How do the planets move?

🤩 Did you know?

Newton published his theory of light in 1704.
Einstein announced the general theory of relativity in 1915.
Ibn al-Haytham is called “the father of optics”.
Einstein's predictions were confirmed by observation in 1919.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 Many branches

Physics studies motion and forces, heat, light, sound, electricity and magnetism, the atom and what's inside it, and even stars and galaxies.

🔍 Muslim scholars

Many Muslim scholars contributed to physics, like Ibn al-Haytham, who studied light and vision through experiments, al-Biruni, who measured the density of metals, and al-Khazini, who studied balances.

💡 Newton and Einstein

Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, then Albert Einstein came along with amazing new ideas about time, light and gravity.

🎯 Physics in our lives

Thanks to physics we have electricity, phones, computers, planes and medical machines. And every time you go on a swing or throw a ball, you're doing physics!

📸 More pictures

Tracking the paths of subatomic particles. Developing a protective coating for metals.

Archimedes, the Greek inventor, discovered several basic principles of physics in the third century BC, and developed several ways of measuring.

🧩 Test yourself

1 What does physics study?

2 Which Muslim scholar studied light through experiments?

3 Which picture shows “Physics”?