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Classical physics traditionally includes the fields of mechanics, optics, electricity, magnetism, acoustics and thermodynamics. The term Modern physics is normally used for fields which rely heavily on quantum theory, including quantum mechanics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and condensed matter physics. General and special relativity are usually considered to be part of modern physics as well.

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Fundamental Concepts ! Classical Physics ! Modern Physics ! Cross Discipline Topics
Continuum | Solid Mechanics | Fluid Mechanics | Geophysics
Motion | Classical Mechanics | Analytical mechanics | Mathematical Physics
Kinetics | Kinematics | Kinematic chain | Robotics
Matter | Classical states | Modern states | Nanotechnology
Energy | Chemical Physics | Plasma Physics | Materials Science
Cold | Cryophysics | Cryogenics | Superconductivity
Heat | Heat transfer | Transport Phenomena | Combustion
Entropy | Thermodynamics | Statistical mechanics | Phase transitions
Particle | Particulates | Particle physics | Particle accelerator
Antiparticle | Antimatter | Annihilation physics | Gamma ray
Waves | Oscillation | Quantum oscillation | Vibration
Gravity | Gravitation | Gravitational wave | Celestial mechanics
Vacuum | Pressure physics | Vacuum state physics | Quantum fluctuation
Random | Statistics | Stochastic process | Brownian motion
Spacetime | Special Relativity | General Relativity | Black holes
Quantum | Quantum mechanics | Quantum field theory | Quantum computing
Radiation | Radioactivity | Radioactive decay | Cosmic ray
Light | Optics | Quantum optics | Photonics
Electrons | Solid State | Condensed Matter | Symmetry breaking
Electricity | Electrical circuit | Electronics | Integrated circuit
Electromagnetism | Electrodynamics | Quantum Electrodynamics | Chemical Bonds
Strong interaction | Nuclear Physics | Quantum Chromodynamics | Quark model
Weak interaction | Atomic Physics | Electroweak theory | Radioactivity
Standard Model | Fundamental interaction | Grand Unified Theory | Higgs boson
Information | Information science | Quantum information | Holographic principle
Life | Biophysics | Quantum Biology | Astrobiology
Conscience | Neurophysics | Quantum mind | Quantum brain dynamics
Cosmos | Astrophysics | Cosmology | Observable universe
Cosmogony | Big Bang | Mathematical universe | Multiverse
Chaos | Chaos theory | Quantum chaos | Perturbation theory
Complexity | Dynamical system | Complex system | Emergence
Quantization | Canonical quantization | Loop quantum gravity | Spin foam
Unification | Quantum gravity | String theory | Theory of Everything