unchanging knowledge, physical laws are better viewed as a series of improving and more precise generalizations. Scientific laws are typically conclusions...

In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time...

The Character of Physical Law is a series of seven lectures by physicist Richard Feynman concerning the nature of the laws of physics. Feynman delivered...

The second law of thermodynamics is a physical law based on universal empirical observation concerning heat and energy interconversions. A simple statement...

philosophical implications. Physicalism encompasses matter, but also energy, physical laws, space, time, structure, physical processes, information, state...

expressing the same physical law in different ways. The law has been tested extensively, and observations have upheld the law on the scale from 10−16...

In the study of heat transfer, Newton's law of cooling is a physical law which states that The rate of heat loss of a body is directly proportional to...

many branches, each referred to as a "physical science", together is called the "physical sciences". Physical science can be described as all of the...

In science, an inverse-square law is any scientific law stating that the observed "intensity" of a specified physical quantity is inversely proportional...

This law was the first physical law to be expressed in the form of an equation describing the dependence of two variable quantities. The law itself...