# Index of physics articles (F)

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## Index of physics articles

* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## F

* F(R) gravity
* F-number
* F-term
* F-theory
* F. David Peat
* F. Dow Smith
* F. J. Duarte
* F. Richard Stephenson
* FBI mnemonics
* FBTR
* FDTD model
* FDTD modeling
* FDTD models
* FFAG accelerator
* FLASH
* FLEX (satellite)
* FLUKA
* FOMP
* FP420 experiment
* FRS Fragment Separator
* FTCS scheme
* FUTBOLIN
* FU Orionis star
* Fabiola Gianotti
* Fabrication and testing of optical components
* Fabry–Pérot interferometer
* Face centred cubic metal
* Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research
* Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
* Factors of polymer weathering
* Faddeev equations
* Faddeev–Popov ghost
* Fahrenheit hydrometer
* Fall cone test
* Falling cat problem
* False sunrise
* False vacuum
* Family (particle physics)
* FanWing
* Fang Lizhi
* Fanning friction factor
* Fanno flow
* Fano noise
* Fano resonance
* Fano resonances
* Far-infrared laser
* Far point
* Farad
* Faraday's law of induction
* Faraday Medal and Prize
* Faraday Society
* Faraday Wheel
* Faraday cage
* Faraday constant
* Faraday cup
* Faraday cup electrometer
* Faraday effect
* Faraday paradox
* Faraday wave
* Farhad Ardalan
* Farrington Daniels
* Fast and Realistic OpenGL Displayer
* Fast atom bombardment
* Fast fission
* Fast-ion conductor
* Fast multipole method
* Faster-than-light
* Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly
* Fault current limiter
* Faxén's law
* Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
* Fay Dowker
* Fayet–Iliopoulos D-term
* Fazle Hussain
* Featherstone's algorithm
* Federico Capasso
* Feedback linearization
* Feedback topology
* Feigenbaum constants
* Feigenbaum function
* Feinberg reinterpretation principle
* Felice Fontana
* Felici's law
* Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
* Felix Berezin
* Felix Bloch
* Felix Ehrenhaft
* Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten
* Felix Villars
* Felix Weinberg
* Feng Duan
* Feodosy Krasovsky
* Ferdinand Brickwedde
* Ferdinand Kurlbaum
* Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
* Ferenc Krausz
* Fereydoon Family
* Fermat's principle
* Fermi's golden rule
* Fermi's interaction
* Fermi acceleration
* Fermi contact interaction
* Fermi coupling constant
* Fermi energy
* Fermi gas
* Fermi level
* Fermi liquid theory
* Fermi point
* Fermi problem
* Fermi resonance
* Fermi surface
* Fermi surface of superconducting cuprates
* Fermilab
* Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest
* Fermion
* Fermion doubling
* Fermionic condensate
* Fermionic field
* Fermi–Dirac statistics
* Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem
* Fermi–Walker differentiation
* Fermi–Walker transport
* Fernand Holweck
* Fernando Quevedo
* Fernando Sanford
* Ferrimagnetism
* Ferrite (magnet)
* Ferroelectret
* Ferroelectricity
* Ferrofluid
* Ferroics
* Ferromagnetic interaction
* Ferromagnetic material properties
* Ferromagnetic resonance
* Ferromagnetism
* Fertile material
* Feryal Özel
* Feshbach–Fano partitioning
* Fessenden oscillator
* Few-body systems
* Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun
* Feynman checkerboard
* Feynman diagram
* Feynman graph
* Feynman parametrization
* Feynman slash notation
* Feynman sprinkler
* Feza Gürsey
* Fiber Bragg grating
* Fiber laser
* Fibre optic gyroscope
* Fick's laws of diffusion
* Fictitious force
* Field-emission electric propulsion
* Field-reversed configuration
* Field-theoretic simulation
* Field (physics)
* Field aligned irregularities
* Field electron emission
* Field emission microscopy
* Field emission probes
* Field equation
* Field of Streams
* Field rate
* Field strength
* Fierz identity
* Fifth force
* Figure-8 laser
* Figure of the Earth
* Figuring
* Filament propagation
* Film-forming agent
* Film temperature
* Filter (large eddy simulation)
* Filter (signal processing)
* Fin (extended surface)
* Fine-structure constant
* Fine-tuned universe
* Fine-tuning
* Fine structure
* Fineness ratio
* Finite-difference frequency-domain method
* Finite-difference time-domain method
* Finite-volume method
* Finite potential well
* Finite strain theory
* Fiodar Fiodaraŭ
* Fiorella Terenzi
* Fire
* Fire point
* Fire whirl
* Firmin Abauzit
* First-order fluid
* First-order transition
* First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics
* First class constraint
* First law of thermodynamics
* First quantization
* First superstring revolution
* Fischler–Susskind mechanism
* Fissile
* Fission Product Pilot Plant
* Fission products (by element)
* FitzHugh–Nagumo model
* Fixed-focus lens
* Fixed-pattern noise
* Fixture unit
* Fizeau experiment
* Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in air
* Fizz keeper
* Flack parameter
* Flame
* Flame detector
* Flammability
* Flammability limit
* Flap (aircraft)
* Flap back
* Flare spray
* Flash evaporation
* Flash freezing
* Flash point
* Flat-field correction
* Flat lens
* Flat weighting
* Flatness (cosmology)
* Flatness (liquids)
* Flatness problem
* Flattening
* Flavor-changing neutral current
* Flavour (particle physics)
* Flavour quantum number
* Flavour quantum numbers
* Fleming's left-hand rule for motors
* Fleming's right hand rule
* Flerovium
* Fletcher–Munson curves
* Flexible SPC water model
* Flexiverse
* Flexural rigidity
* Flexural strength
* Flicker noise
* Flight
* Flight dynamics (fixed wing aircraft)
* Flipped SO(10)
* Flipped SU(5)
* Float-zone silicon
* Floating water bridge
* Flocculation
* Floer homology
* Flood
* Florentina Mosora
* Floris Nollet
* Flory–Huggins solution theory
* Flory–Rehner equation
* Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
* Flow coefficient
* Flow conditions
* Flow limiter
* Flow measurement
* Flow sensor
* Flow separation
* Flow through nozzles
* Flow tracer
* Flow velocity
* Flow visualization
* Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry
* Floyd K. Richtmyer
* Floyd Richtmyer
* Fluctuation-dissipation theorem
* Fluctuation theorem
* Fluence
* Fluid
* Fluid Dynamics Prize (APS)
* Fluid dynamic gauge
* Fluid dynamics
* Fluid mechanics
* Fluid meter
* Fluid parcel
* Fluid pipe
* Fluid pressure
* Fluid solution
* Fluid statics
* Fluid theory of electricity
* Fluidics
* Fluidyne engine
* Fluid–structure interaction
* Fluorescence
* Fluorescence spectroscopy
* Fluoride volatility
* Fluoroposs
* Flux
* Flux-Corrected Transport
* Flux limiter
* Flux linkage
* Flux method
* Flux pinning
* Flux quantization
* Flux tube
* Fluxoid
* Fluxon
* Flyby anomaly
* Flying-spot scanner
* Flying wing
* Focal length
* Fock matrix
* Fock space
* Fock state
* Fock–Lorentz symmetry
* Focus (optics)
* Foe (unit)
* Fog bow
* Folded optics
* Foldy–Wouthuysen transformation
* Foot-lambert
* Foot per second
* For All Practical Purposes
* Forbidden mechanism
* Forbush decrease
* Force
* Force-free magnetic field
* Force between magnets
* Force carrier
* Force density
* Force field (chemistry)
* Force field (physics)
* Ford viscosity cup
* Forecasting complexity
* Form factor (quantum field theory)
* Form factor (electronics)
* Form factor (radiative transfer)
* Forschungsreaktor 2 (FR2)
* Forschungszentrum Jülich
* Forward-swept wing
* Forward scatter
* Forward scattering alignment
* Fossil stellar magnetic field
* Foster's reactance theorem
* Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara
* Foucault pendulum
* Foucault's measurements of the speed of light
* Fouling
* Foundational Questions Institute
* Foundations of Physics
* Four-acceleration
* Four-bar linkage
* Four-current
* Four-dimensional space
* Four-fermion interactions
* Four-force
* Four-frequency
* Four-gradient
* Four-momentum
* Four-tensor
* Four-vector
* Four-velocity
* Fourier optics
* Fourier pair
* Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
* Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance
* Fractal cosmology
* Fractal derivative
* Fractal dimension
* Fractional Schrödinger equation
* Fractional anisotropy
* Fractional quantum Hall effect
* Fractional supersymmetry
* Fractoluminescence
* Fracton
* Fracture mechanics
* Fracture toughening mechanisms
* Fragment separator
* Frame-dragging
* Frame fields in general relativity
* Frame of reference
* Fran Bošnjaković
* Frances Hellman
* Francesco Calogero
* Francesco Carlini
* Francesco Maria Grimaldi
* Francesco Rossetti
* Francesco Sannino
* Francesco Zantedeschi
* Francis Allotey
* Francis Birch (geophysicist)
* Francis Bitter
* Francis Crick
* Francis Eugene Nipher
* Francis Everitt
* Francis F. Chen
* Francis G. Slack
* Francis H. Harlow
* Francis Perrin
* Francis Robbins Upton
* Francis Sears
* Francis Simon
* Francis Wheeler Loomis
* Francisco José Ynduráin
* Franck Report
* Franck–Condon principle
* Franck–Hertz experiment
* Franco-British Nuclear Forum
* Franco Rasetti
* Frank B. Jewett
* Frank Benford
* Frank Close
* Frank Edward Smith
* Frank Elmore Ross
* Frank Farmer (physicist)
* Frank Haig
* Frank Hereford (University of Virginia)
* Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
* Frank J. Low
* Frank J. Tipler
* Frank N. von Hippel
* Frank Nabarro
* Frank Oppenheimer
* Frank Press
* Frank Verstraete
* Frank Wilczek
* Franklin L. West
* Franklin S. Cooper
* Frank–Tamm formula
* Frans Michel Penning
* Franssen effect
* František Běhounek
* František Josef Gerstner
* František Koláček
* František Záviška
* Franz Ernst Neumann
* Franz Melde
* Franz N. D. Kurie
* Franz Ollendorff
* Franz S. Exner
* Franz Wegner
* Franz Wittmann (physicist)
* Franz–Keldysh effect
* François Arago
* François Englert
* François Frenkiel
* Frascati Tokamak Upgrade
* Fraser Filter
* Fraunhofer diffraction
* Fraunhofer distance
* Fraunhofer lines
* Frazil ice
* Fred Adams
* Fred Alan Wolf
* Fred Begay
* Fred Cummings
* Fred E. Wright
* Fred Espenak
* Fred Hoyle
* Fred Kavli
* Frederick Charles Frank
* Frederick Eugene Wright
* Frederick Grover
* Frederick Guthrie
* Frederick James Hargreaves
* Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
* Frederick Reines
* Frederick Rossini
* Frederick Seitz
* Frederick Sumner Brackett
* Frederick Thomas Trouton
* Frederick Vine
* Fredkin finite nature hypothesis
* Free-air gravity anomaly
* Free-electron laser
* Free-fall atomic model
* FreeFOAM
* FreeON
* Free body
* Free body diagram
* Free boundary problem
* Free convective layer
* Free electron model
* Free entropy
* Free expansion
* Free fall
* Free field
* Free induction decay
* Free molecular flow
* Free particle
* Free space
* Free spectral range
* Free streaming
* Free surface
* Free surface effect
* Free will theorem
* Freeman Dyson
* Freeze thaw resistance
* Freezing
* Frenet–Serret formulas
* Frenkel defect
* Frequency
* Frequency-resolved optical gating
* Frequency agility
* Frequency classification of plasmas
* Frequency comb
* Frequency domain sensor
* Frequency range
* Frequency spectrum
* Fresnel (frequency)
* Fresnel Imager
* Fresnel diffraction
* Fresnel equations
* Fresnel mirror
* Fresnel number
* Fresnel rhomb
* Fresnel zone
* Fresnel–Arago laws
* Fretting
* Freund–Rubin compactification
* Friction
* Friction loss
* Friedel Sellschop
* Friedmann equations
* Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric
* Friedrich Bopp
* Friedrich Burmeister
* Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
* Friedrich Dessauer
* Friedrich Ernst Dorn
* Friedrich Hasenöhrl
* Friedrich Hopfner
* Friedrich Hund
* Friedrich Kohlrausch
* Friedrich Kottler
* Friedrich Paschen
* Friedrich Risner
* Friedrich Robert Helmert
* Friedwardt Winterberg
* Fringe shift
* Frisch–Peierls memorandum
* Fritjof Capra
* Frits Zernike
* Fritz-Albert Popp
* Fritz Fischer (physicist)
* Fritz Houtermans
* Fritz John
* Fritz London
* Fritz Peter Schäfer
* Fritz Reiche
* Fritz Sauter
* Fritz Ursell
* Fritz Zwicky
* Frog battery
* From Eternity to Here
* Front velocity
* Frontier molecular orbital theory
* Frontiers of Physics in China
* Frost flower (sea ice)
* Froude number
* Froude resistance curve
* Froude–Krylov force
* Frédéric Joliot-Curie
* Fréedericksz transition
* Fubini–Study metric
* Fuel Cells (journal)
* Fuel efficiency
* Fuel mass fraction
* Fuel temperature coefficient of reactivity
* Fugacity
* Fujikawa method
* Fujita scale
* Fujiwhara effect
* Fukushima's Theorem
* Full-Scale Tunnel
* Fulvio Melia
* Functional derivative
* Functional integration
* Functions of state
* Fundamental Fysiks Group
* Fundamental frequency
* Fundamental interaction
* Fundamental thermodynamic relation
* Fundamental unit
* Fundamentals of Physics
* Furuta pendulum
* Fusion Technology Center
* Fusion energy gain factor
* Fusion for Energy
* Fusion power
* Fusion rocket
* Fusion rules
* Fusion temperature
* Fusion torch
* Fusor
* Future of an expanding universe
* Fuzzball (string theory)
* Fyodor Grigoryevich Reshetnikov
* Fyodor Luzhin
* Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect
* Félix Savart
* Förster coupling