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F
- F = m * a
- Fabry, Maurice Paul Auguste Charles (1867–1945)
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer
- Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect (Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect)
- Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel (1686–1736)
- Fahrenheit temperature scale
- Fanno flow
- Farad (F)
- Faraday, Michael (1791–1867)
- Faraday (F)
- Faraday, first law of
- Faraday, second law of
- Faraday cage
- Faraday constant
- Faraday dark space
- Faraday law
- Faraday’s induction law
- Far-field diffraction
- Farsightedness
- Fast Fourier transform (FFT)
- Fatigue
- Fault line
- FDA
- Fermat, Pierre de (1601–1665)
- Fermat principle
- Fermi, Enrico (1901–1954)
- Fermi (unit of length)
- Fermi decay
- Fermi distribution
- Fermi energy (EF)
- Fermi function
- Fermi gas
- Fermi hole
- Fermi level
- Fermi quantum number (nF)
- Fermi shape
- Fermi sphere
- Fermi surface
- Fermi wavevector (kF)
- Fermi workfunction
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem
- Fermion
- Ferrite
- Ferroelectric
- Ferromagnet
- Ferromagnetism
- Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey (1866–1932)
- Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918–1988)
- Feynman diagram
- FFT
- f-function
- Fiber-optic
- Fibonacci sequence
- Fick, Adolf Eugen (1829–1901)
- Fick, Adolf Gaston Eugen (1852–1937)
- Fick’s equation
- Fine structure
- Fine structure constant (αfine = (e2/4πħc) = 1/137)
- Finesse (F)
- Finsen, Niels Ryberg (1860–1904)
- First law of Faraday
- First law of thermodynamics
- First postulate of relativity
- Fission
- FitzGerald, George Francis (1851–1901)
- FitzGerald-Lorentz hypothesis
- Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis (1819–1896)
- Flavors of quarks
- Fleming, John Ambrose, Sir (1849–1945)
- Fleming’s right-hand rule
- Fletcher, Harvey (1884–1981)
- Flow
- Flow, pulsatile
- Fludeoxyglucose (FDG)
- Fluence ( Ψ → ( r , θ, ϕ ) )
- Fluence rate (Φ (r, θ, ϕ, t))
- Fluid
- Fluid dynamics
- Fluidization
- Fluidization number
- Fluorescence
- Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
- Flux
- FM transmissions
- f-number
- Focal length (f)
- Focal plane
- Focal point
- Forbidden transitions
- Force (F)
- Forced oscillation
- Forced vibration
- Forced vortex
- Förster, Theodor (1910–1974)
- Förster resonance energy transfer
- Fosbury flop
- Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon (1819–1868)
- Foucault current
- Foucault’s pendulum
- Four forces
- Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron (1768–1830)
- Fourier analysis
- Fourier conduction law
- Fourier number (Fo = κt/cρL2)
- Fourier number, mass transfer (Fom = DABt/L2)
- Fourier optics
- Fourier plane
- Fourier series
- Fourier theorem
- Fourier transform
- Fovea
- Franck, James (1882–1964)
- Franck-Condon principle
- Franck-Hertz experiment
- Franklin, Benjamin (1706/1705?–1790)
- Franklin
- Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787–1826)
- Fraunhofer diffraction
- Fraunhofer lines
- Free charge
- Free spectral range
- Freezing
- Frequency (ν)
- Frequency, angular (ω)
- Frequency, resonant (ν0)
- Frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS)
- Frequency modulation (FM)
- Frequency spectrum
- Fresnel, Augustin-Jean (1788–1827)
- Fresnel diffraction (1788–1827)
- Fresnel number (NF = a2/λz)
- Fricative consonant
- Friction
- Friction factor ( f = ΔP/[(L/D)((1/2)ρv2)])
- Friedmann, Alexander Alexandrovich (“Aleksandr Fridman”) [Алексан́ др Алексан́ дрович Фрид́ ман] (1888–1925)
- Friedmann equations
- FROG
- Froude, William (1810–1879)
- Froude number (Fr = v2/gL)
- Froude’s law of similarity
- Fuel cell
- Fugacity (πf(T, P))
- Fugacity coefficient
- Fulcrum
- Fuller, Richard Buckminster (1895–1983)
- Functional MRI (fMRI)
- Functional residual capacity (FRC)
- Fundamental frequency
- Fundamental particles
- Fundamental wave
- Fusion
- Fusion, heat of
- Fusion reactor
Abstract
[general] force (F) is the product of the net acceleration (a = ∂v/∂t, rate of change in velocity [v] with respect to time [t]) of an object with its mass m (see Figure F.1).
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