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All Physics

All Physics: encyclopedia, physicists, reference tables and experiments

All Physics is a reference for physics: an encyclopedia, the lives of more than a thousand physicists, tables of quantities and constants, formulas, experiments, photographs, video and virtual laboratory work. It has been open to readers since the early 2000s.

Where to begin

The encyclopedia — two hundred entries on quantities, laws and phenomena, arranged by letter, each a short and exact account of one idea.

Physicists — 1114 biographies, from Archimedes and Newton to Landau and Feynman: where they studied, what they worked on, what they found. Arranged by letter.

The handbook of quantities and physics formulas — units, conversions and relations, set out to be found quickly in the middle of a problem. The physical constants follow CODATA 2022.

Experiments — physics shown rather than told, most of it with things to hand in any home.

Photographs, video and virtual laboratory experiments.

Beyond the textbook