# Index of physics articles (W)

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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

## W

* W' and Z' bosons
* W' boson
* W. G. Unruh
* W. Jason Morgan
* W. Lewis Hyde
* W. R. Dean
* W. W. Hansen
* WAMIT
* WASH-1400
* WASH-740
* WAsP
* WIMP Argon Programme
* WITCH experiment
* WKB approximation
* WMAP cold spot
* WOMBAT (diffractometer)
* W and Z bosons
* W band
* W state
* Wade Allison
* Wafer (electronics)
* Wagner model
* Wake
* Wake turbulence
* Waldo K. Lyon
* Wall-plug efficiency
* Wallace Clement Sabine
* Wallace Hampton Tucker
* Wallace Smith Broecker
* Walter A. Rosenblith
* Walter Dieminger
* Walter Dornberger
* Walter Dröscher
* Walter Eric Spear
* Walter Franz
* Walter Gear
* Walter Gerlach
* Walter Gilbert
* Walter Gordon (physicist)
* Walter Grotrian
* Walter Guyton Cady
* Walter H. Schottky
* Walter Heitler
* Walter Herrmann (physicist)
* Walter Hoppe
* Walter Houser Brattain
* Walter Kaufmann (physicist)
* Walter Kistler
* Walter Kohn
* Walter M. Elsasser
* Walter Mauderli
* Walter Oelert
* Walter Rogowski
* Walter Rotman
* Walter Schottky Prize
* Walter Selke
* Walter Thirring
* Walter Tollmien
* Walter Zinn
* Walter Zürn
* Walter de Heer
* Walther Bothe
* Walther Kossel
* Walther Meissner
* Walther Müller
* Walther Nernst
* Walther Ritz
* Wander Johannes de Haas
* Wang Ganchang
* Wang Zhuxi
* Wannier function
* Ward Plummer
* Wardenclyffe Tower
* Ward–Takahashi identity
* Warm dark matter
* Warm–hot intergalactic medium
* Warp drive (Star Trek)
* Warped Passages
* Warped geometry
* Warren J. Smith
* Warren Siegel
* Washburn's equation
* Washburn constant
* Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array
* Washout (aviation)
* Water content
* Water cycle
* Water meter
* Water pipe percolator
* Water potential
* Water retention curve
* Water thread experiment
* Water vapor
* Water window
* Watercraft
* Waterfall plot
* Waterhole (radio)
* Waterspout
* Watson interferometer
* Watt
* Watt's law
* Watt W. Webb
* Watt steam engine
* Wave
* Wave-icle
* Wave-making resistance
* Wave-piercing
* WaveRider
* Wave Motion (journal)
* Wave action (continuum mechanics)
* Wave base
* Wave drag
* Wave equation
* Wave field synthesis
* Wave flume
* Wave function
* Wave function collapse
* Wave function renormalization
* Wave height
* Wave impedance
* Wave loading
* Wave packet
* Wave power
* Wave propagation
* Wave propagation speed
* Wave radar
* Wave setup
* Wave shoaling
* Wave tank
* Wave theory of light
* Wave turbulence
* Wave vector
* Waveguide
* Waveguide (acoustics)
* Waveguide (electromagnetism)
* Waveguide (optics)
* Waveguiding
* Wavelength
* Wavenumber
* Wavenumber–frequency diagram
* Waveplate
* Waves and shallow water
* Wave–current interaction
* Wave–particle duality
* Weak-field approximation
* Weak focusing
* Weak hypercharge
* Weak interaction
* Weak isospin
* Weak isospin projection
* Weak localization
* Weakless Universe
* Weakly guiding fiber
* Weakly interacting massive particles
* Weapons-grade
* Web of Knowledge
* Web of Science
* Weber (unit)
* Weber bar
* Weber electrodynamics
* Weber number
* Wedge (mechanical device)
* Wedge filter
* Wedge fringe
* Wehnelt cylinder
* Wei-Tou Ni
* Wei Shyy
* Weibel instability
* Weight
* Weighted Voronoi diagram
* Weighting curve
* Weightlessness
* Weinberg angle
* Weinberg–Witten theorem
* Weinstein conjecture
* Weir
* Weiss domain
* Weiss magneton
* Weissenberg effect
* Weissenberg number
* Welteislehre
* Wendell H. Furry
* Wendelstein 7-X
* Werner Hartmann (physicist)
* Werner Heisenberg
* Werner Israel
* Werner Kolhörster
* Werner Kuhn (chemist)
* Werner Meyer-Eppler
* Werner Rolfinck
* Werner state
* Wernher von Braun
* Werthamer–Helfand–Hohenberg theory
* Wesley Huntress
* Wess–Zumino gauge
* Wess–Zumino model
* Wess–Zumino–Witten model
* West number
* Wet-bulb temperature
* Wetted aspect ratio (wing)
* Wetting
* Wetting transition
* Weyl's postulate
* Weyl curvature hypothesis
* Weyl equation
* Weyl notation
* Weyl scalar
* Weyl tensor
* Weyl transformation
* What Do You Care What Other People Think?
* What Is Life?
* What the Bleep Do We Know!?
* Wheatstone bridge
* Wheel and axle
* Wheeler's delayed choice experiment
* Wheeler–DeWitt equation
* Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory
* Whirlpool
* Whirlwind (atmospheric phenomenon)
* Whispering-gallery wave
* Whispering gallery
* White dwarf
* White hole
* White noise
* Whitehead's theory of gravitation
* Whitham equation
* Whole number rule
* Wick's theorem
* Wick Haxton
* Wick rotation
* Wide-angle X-ray scattering
* Wide-bandgap semiconductors
* Wideband materials
* Widom scaling
* Wiedemann–Franz law
* Wien's displacement law
* Wien's distribution law
* Wien approximation
* Wien effect
* Wien filter
* Wiggler (synchrotron)
* Wightman axioms
* Wigner's classification
* Wigner's friend
* Wigner's theorem
* Wigner 3-j symbols
* Wigner crystal
* Wigner effect
* Wigner quasiprobability distribution
* Wigner–Eckart theorem
* Wigner–Seitz cell
* Wigner–Seitz radius
* Wilbur B. Rayton
* Wilfrid Basil Mann
* Wilhelm Anderson
* Wilhelm Eduard Weber
* Wilhelm Hallwachs
* Wilhelm Hanle
* Wilhelm Holtz
* Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
* Wilhelm Lenz
* Wilhelm Nusselt
* Wilhelm Orthmann
* Wilhelm Röntgen
* Wilhelm Walcher
* Wilhelm Westphal
* Wilhelm Wien
* Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
* Willard Boyle
* Willard Harrison Bennett
* Willebrord Snellius
* Willem 's Gravesande
* Willem Hendrik Keesom
* Willem Vos
* Willem de Sitter
* Willi Kalender
* William A. Bardeen
* William Alfred Fowler
* William Allen Zajc
* William Allis
* William Andrew Goddard III
* William Arnold Anthony
* William Astbury
* William B. Bridges
* William B. McLean
* William Bassichis
* William C. Schwartz
* William Coblentz
* William Cochran (physicist)
* William Crookes
* William Curry (oceanographer)
* William D. Coolidge
* William Daniel Phillips
* William Duane (physicist)
* William E. Caswell
* William E. Forsythe
* William E. Gordon
* William Eccles (physicist)
* William Edward Ayrton
* William Fletcher Barrett
* William Francis Gray Swann
* William Francis Magie
* William Frederick Meggers
* William Froude
* William Fuller Brown, Jr.
* William G. Tifft
* William Gilbert (astronomer)
* William Grylls Adams
* William Hallock
* William Henry Bragg
* William Higinbotham
* William Hyde Wollaston
* William J. Thaler
* William Jackson Humphreys
* William John Macquorn Rankine
* William Jones (optician)
* William Justin Kroll
* William L. Burke
* William Lawrence Bragg
* William M. Hartmann
* William McFadden Orr
* William Mitchell (physicist)
* William Mitchinson Hicks
* William Morris Kinnersley
* William Nicol (geologist)
* William Nierenberg
* William P. Winfree
* William Penney, Baron Penney
* William Prager
* William R. Bennett, Jr.
* William R. Kanne
* William Rarita
* William Richard Peltier
* William Ritchie (physicist)
* William Rowan Hamilton
* William Shockley
* William Stanley, Jr.
* William Sturgeon
* William Sutherland (physicist)
* William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
* William Vermillion Houston
* William Watson (scientist)
* William Wootters
* William Zisman
* Willibald Jentschke
* Willis Lamb
* Williwaw
* Willy Fischler
* Willy Ley
* Wilson loop
* Wimshurst machine
* Wind
* WindPRO
* WindShear
* Wind Shear's Full Scale, Rolling Road, Automotive Wind Tunnel
* Wind chill
* Wind energy
* Wind energy software
* Wind farm
* Wind generator
* Wind gradient
* Wind power
* Wind power forecasting
* Wind resource assessment
* Wind shear
* Wind speed
* Wind stress
* Wind tunnel
* Wind turbine
* Wind turbine aerodynamics
* Wind wave
* Wind wave model
* Windage
* Windbelt
* Windhexe
* Windographer
* Windrow
* Windward and leeward
* Winfried Otto Schumann
* Wing
* Wing-shape optimization
* Wing configuration
* Wing fence
* Wing loading
* Wing twist
* Wing warping
* Wingspan
* Wingsuit flying
* Wingtip device
* Wingtip vortices
* Winston E. Kock
* Winston H. Bostick
* Wire chamber
* Wireless energy transfer
* Wireless telegraphy
* Wiswesser's rule
* Witelo
* Witold Milewski (mathematician)
* Witold Nazarewicz
* Witten index
* Wlodzimierz Klonowski
* Wojciech H. Zurek
* Wojciech Rubinowicz
* Wojciech Świętosławski
* Woldemar Voigt
* Wolf Prize in Physics
* Wolf effect
* Wolf summation
* Wolff algorithm
* Wolfgang Demtröder
* Wolfgang Eisenmenger (physicist)
* Wolfgang Finkelnburg
* Wolfgang Gentner
* Wolfgang Haack
* Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
* Wolfgang Ketterle
* Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft
* Wolfgang Paul
* Wolfgang Pauli
* Wolfgang Rindler
* Wolfgang Smith
* Wollaston landscape lens
* Wollaston prism
* Wolter telescope
* Womersley number
* Woo Chia-wei
* Woodruff T. Sullivan III
* Woodstock of physics
* Woods–Saxon potential
* Work (electrical)
* Work (physics)
* Work (thermodynamics)
* Work function
* Work output
* Working Group on Women in Physics
* World Data Center
* World Magnetic Model
* World Year of Physics 2005
* World crystal
* World line
* Worldsheet
* Worm-like chain
* Wormhole
* Wow! signal
* Wright brothers
* Wrinkles in Time
* Wu Youxun
* Wubbo Ockels
* Wurtzite crystal structure
* Wu–Yang monopole
* Wyckoff positions
* Wyld diagrams
* Władysław Natanson
* Władysław Turowicz
* Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski
* Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research