physical phenomenon
C1598
concept
A physical phenomenon is any observable event or process that arises from the behavior and interactions of matter and energy according to the laws of physics.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| physical phenomenon canonical | 44 |
| physical effect | 8 |
| quantum mechanical phenomenon | 8 |
| fluid dynamics phenomenon | 7 |
| optical phenomenon | 7 |
| physical process | 6 |
| diffraction phenomenon | 2 |
| solid-state physics phenomenon | 2 |
| atmospheric optical phenomenon | 1 |
| condensed matter physics phenomenon | 1 |
| electronic phenomenon | 1 |
| gravitational phenomenon | 1 |
| physical interaction | 1 |
| physical mechanism | 1 |
| surface-tension-related phenomenon | 1 |
| wave phenomenon | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
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Instruction
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Input
Class: physical phenomenon
Generated description
A physical phenomenon is any observable event or process that arises from the behavior and interactions of matter and energy according to the laws of physics.
Instances (87)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Oberth effect | physical effect |
| Venturi effect | fluid dynamics phenomenon |
| Ostwald ripening | physical process |
|
Mössbauer effect
linked to:
Mössbauer
|
— |
| Mössbauer effect | — |
| Faraday effect | — |
| Anderson localization | — |
|
Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect
linked to:
Robert Ochsenfeld
|
— |
|
Raman effect
linked to:
Raman
|
physical effect |
| Airy disk | optical phenomenon |
| Peierls transition | solid-state physics phenomenon |
| Unruh effect | — |
| Tolman–Ehrenfest effect | — |
|
Drell–Yan process
linked to:
Tung-Mow Yan
|
physical process |
| Giaever tunneling | quantum mechanical phenomenon |
| Stokes shift | optical phenomenon |
|
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
linked to:
Richard Q. Twiss
|
physical effect |
| Coriolis effect | — |
| Brownian motion | — |
| Pauli paramagnetism | — |
| Saffman–Taylor instability | fluid dynamics phenomenon |
| Kapitza resistance | — |
| Doppler effect | — |
| Rayleigh scattering | — |
| Rayleigh–Taylor instability | fluid dynamics phenomenon |
| Edison effect | — |
| Earth rotation | physical process |
| Larmor precession | — |
| Poisson spot | optical phenomenon |
| Fraunhofer diffraction | diffraction phenomenon |
|
Big Bang nucleosynthesis
linked to:
big bang nucleosynthesis
|
physical process |
| Landau levels | quantum mechanical phenomenon |
| Rabi oscillation | quantum mechanical phenomenon |
| Purcell effect | — |
| Hawking radiation | — |
| Higgs mechanism | physical mechanism |
|
Venturi effect
linked to:
Venturi
|
— |
| Lorentz contraction | — |
| Stark effect | — |
| Becquerel rays | — |
| Zeeman effect | — |
| Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect | — |
| London dispersion forces | physical interaction |
| Rayleigh–Bénard convection | fluid dynamics phenomenon |
| Jahn–Teller effect | physical effect |
|
Larmor precession
linked to:
Larmor
|
— |
| Bremsstrahlung | — |
|
Kerr effect
linked to:
John Kerr
|
— |
| Aharonov–Bohm effect | quantum mechanical phenomenon |
| Aharonov–Casher effect | — |