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Rest — To rest means to relax or take time off; see leisure or nap.Rest or REST may also refer to:* Rest (album), a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa * Rest (music), a pause in a piece of music * Rest (physics), the relation between two observers * RE1… … Wikipedia
Physics — (Greek: physis φύσις), in everyday terms, is the science of matter [R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands (1963), The Feynman Lectures on Physics , ISBN 0 201 02116 1 Hard cover. p.1 1 Feynman begins with the atomic hypothesis.] and its motion … Wikipedia
Physics education — refers both to the methods currently used to teach physics and to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Historically, physics has been taught at the high school and college level primarily by the lecture method… … Wikipedia
Physics (Aristotle) — Physics (or Physica , or Physicae Auscultationes meaning lessons ) is a key text in the philosophy of Aristotle. It inaugurates the current Andronichean order, the long series of Aristotle s physical, cosmological and biological works, and is… … Wikipedia
rest energy — Physics. the energy equivalent to the mass of a particle at rest in an inertial frame of reference, equal to the rest mass times the square of the speed of light. [1935 40] * * * … Universalium
rest mass — Physics. the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body. Cf. relativistic mass. [1910 15] * * * … Universalium
rest mass — n. Physics the mass of a body when its velocity is zero: according to one view of the special theory of relativity, an object s mass increases as its speed increases … English World dictionary
physics — /fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science that deals with matter, energy, motion, and force. [1580 90; see PHYSIC, ICS] * * * I Science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of… … Universalium
rest mass — noun (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body • Topics: ↑physics, ↑natural philosophy • Hypernyms: ↑mass * * * noun Etymology … Useful english dictionary
PHYSICS — The material presented in this entry emphasizes those contributions which were important in arriving at verified present day scientific results, rather than those that may have appeared important at the time. Unavoidably it will overlap in parts… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
