What is Physics ? Physies soften desertbed as the study of matter and eneryy. It is concerned wit how and how they affet exch other over time and through space. Physests ask the fundamental questions how ai the universe Dein? how and of what iitmade? how does it ehange? what rules governs belavior? Physists may be roughly divided into to camps: experimental physilsts and theoretical phystlts. Experimental physicists ; Fe design and run careful vestigations ona broad range of phenomena in nacre, often under ‘conditions wich are atyplel of our everyday ves. They may, for example, investigate what happens to the electrical properties of materials al temperatures very near absolte zero 460 degrees Fahrenheit) or measure the characteristics of eneruy enltted by very hot gates. Theoretical pisleists propose and develop models and theories to explain mathematically the resus of ‘experimental physiist remains keenly aware of the current theoredeal work in Ms ‘know the experimenter's results andthe context in which the remits need be interpreted. theoretical physiist must 11s also usofl to distinguish classical physies and modern physes.Classlal pistes has ts orignsapprosimately four hundred years ago in he studies of Galle and Newton om mechanics, and sniary, nthe work of Aperey Faraday, Nivel and Ovrsted one hundred ity years ago inthe Neds of electricity and magnetism. Tals physics handles objects which are neler too large nor ‘00 smal, which move at relatively slow speeds (atleast compared othe speed of light: 186,00 niles per second. “The emergence of modern piyics at the begining ofthe twentieth century was marked by three aclevenents, The frst, in 13 was Pinstvn'sbiliant model of ight asa stream of particles (photons). The second which followed a few months later, was his revolutionary theory of relativity which deserved objects moving at speeds close to the speed of sht. The third breakthrough came {in 1910 sth Roos escovery ofthe mucleus ofthe atone ors Work Was followed hy Sos modelo the atoms hich in tam stimulated dhe werk of ie Dropliy Hvivenbeng Schrenlinger, Dorn Pal Dirac and others on the quantum theory. The avalanche of exciting discoveries in modern physis continues to