Index of physics articles (L)

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L

 * L. Gary Leal
 * L. M. Milne-Thomson
 * L3 (CERN)
 * LAGEOS
 * LAMMPS
 * LARES (satellite)
 * LArIAT
 * LCGT
 * Left-handed material
 * LEPS
 * LEPS2
 * LHC@home
 * LHCb
 * LHCf
 * LHS 3508
 * LIDAR
 * LIESST
 * LIGO
 * LOCC
 * LOPES (telescope)
 * LRAD Corporation
 * LSZ reduction formula
 * LUCID
 * LULI2000
 * L band
 * Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
 * Laboratory for Laser Energetics
 * Laboratory frame of reference
 * Laboratory oven
 * Laboratory techniques
 * Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron
 * Ladder operator
 * Ladder paradox
 * Ladislas Goldstein
 * Lagrangian mechanics
 * Lagrangian analysis
 * Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field
 * Lagrangian coherent structures
 * Lagrangian mechanics
 * Lagrangian (field theory)
 * Lagrangian particle tracking
 * Lagrangian point
 * Lamb shift
 * Lamb waves
 * Lambda-CDM model
 * Lambda baryon
 * Lambda point
 * Lambda point refrigerator
 * Lambda transition
 * Lambdavacuum solution
 * Lambert's cosine law
 * Lambert's problem
 * Lambert (unit)
 * Lambert radiator
 * Lambertian reflectance
 * Lamb–Mössbauer factor
 * Lamb–Oseen vortex
 * Lamellar vector field
 * Laminar–turbulent transition
 * Laminar flow
 * Laminar sublayer
 * Lamm equation
 * Lamé parameters
 * Lancelot Law Whyte
 * Lanczos tensor
 * Land speed
 * Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
 * Landau damping
 * Landau pole
 * Landau quantization
 * Landau theory
 * Landauer's principle
 * Landauer formula
 * Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence
 * Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
 * Landau–Zener formula
 * Landolt–Börnstein
 * Landspout
 * Landé g-factor
 * Landé interval rule
 * Lane–Emden equation
 * Langevin dynamics
 * Langevin equation
 * Langevin function
 * Langmuir circulation
 * Langmuir probe
 * Langmuir waves
 * Langmuir–Blodgett film
 * Langworthy Professor
 * Laplace formula
 * Laplace number
 * Laplace pressure
 * Laplace series
 * Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
 * Lapse rate
 * Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics
 * Large Area Neutron Detector
 * Large Electron–Positron Collider
 * Large Hadron Collider
 * Large Helical Device
 * Large Plasma Device
 * Large Underground Xenon experiment
 * Large Volume Detector
 * Large diffeomorphism
 * Large eddy simulation
 * Large electrostatic generator (Teylers)
 * Large extra dimension
 * Large gauge transformation
 * Larkin Kerwin
 * Larmor formula
 * Larmor precession
 * Larry Smarr
 * Lars Onsager
 * Lars Onsager Prize
 * Larson–Miller relation
 * Laser
 * Laser-heated pedestal growth
 * Laser-induced fluorescence
 * Laser-induced incandescence
 * LaserMotive
 * Laser Accelerometer
 * Laser Doppler velocimetry
 * Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
 * Laser Interferometry Space Antenna
 * Laser Mégajoule
 * Laser Physics (journal)
 * Laser Physics Letters
 * Laser ablation
 * Laser ablation synthesis in solution
 * Laser accelerometer
 * Laser acronyms
 * Laser construction
 * Laser cooling
 * Laser diode
 * Laser diode rate equations
 * Laser engraving
 * Laser integration line
 * Laser propulsion
 * Laser protection eyewear
 * Laser pumping
 * Laser rangefinder
 * Laser safety
 * Laser science
 * Laser snow
 * Laser ultrasonics
 * Laser voltage prober
 * Lasing threshold
 * Laszlo B. Kish
 * Latent heat
 * Latent heat flux
 * Latent internal energy
 * Lateral flow test
 * Lateral force variation
 * Lattice Boltzmann methods
 * Lattice QCD
 * Lattice constant
 * Lattice density functional theory
 * Lattice diffusion coefficient
 * Lattice field theory
 * Lattice gas automaton
 * Lattice gauge theory
 * Lattice model (physics)
 * Laughlin wavefunction
 * Laura Bassi
 * Laurence E. Peterson
 * Laurent Freidel
 * Lauro Moscardini
 * Lavo Čermelj
 * Law of conservation of matter
 * Law of the wall
 * Lawrence M. Krauss
 * Lawrence Paul Horwitz
 * Laws of science
 * Laws of thermodynamics
 * Lawson criterion
 * Lax pair
 * Lax–Friedrichs method
 * Lax–Wendroff method
 * Lazare Carnot
 * Lazarus effect
 * LeConte Hall
 * LeRoy Apker
 * LeRoy Apker Award (APS)
 * LeRoy radius
 * Le Sage's theory of gravitation
 * Lead shielding
 * Leader (spark)
 * Leading-edge extension
 * Leading edge
 * Leading edge cuff
 * Leading-edge slat
 * Leading edge slot
 * Leakage (electronics)
 * Leakage (semiconductors)
 * Leaky mode
 * Leapfrog integration
 * Least count
 * Least distance of distinct vision
 * Lebedev Physical Institute
 * Lebesgue spine
 * Lecture Notes in Physics
 * Ledinegg instability
 * Lee Alvin DuBridge
 * Lee C. Teng
 * Lee Davenport
 * Lee Segel
 * Lee Smolin
 * Lee wave
 * Left-handed material
 * Left–right symmetry
 * Leidenfrost effect
 * Leigh Canham
 * Leigh Page
 * Leland I. Anderson
 * Leland John Haworth
 * Lemaître coordinates
 * Lemaître–Tolman metric
 * Lene Hau
 * Length contraction
 * Length scale
 * Lennard-Jones potential
 * Lenoir cycle
 * Lens (optics)
 * Lens sag
 * Lenticular lens
 * Lenz's law
 * Leo Brewer
 * Leo Esaki
 * Leo Graetz
 * Leo Kadanoff
 * Leo Palatnik
 * Leon Cooper
 * Leon Knopoff
 * Leon M. Lederman
 * Leon Mestel
 * Leona Woods
 * Leonard Huxley (physicist)
 * Leonard M. Rieser
 * Leonard Mandel
 * Leonard Mlodinow
 * Leonard Ornstein
 * Leonard Parker
 * Leonard Reiffel
 * Leonard Susskind
 * Leonard T. Troland
 * Leonardo Chiariglione
 * Leonhard Euler
 * Leonid Brekhovskikh
 * Leonid I. Sedov
 * Leonid Mandelstam
 * Leonid Mikhailovich Shkadov
 * Leonid Yatsenko
 * Leonidas Resvanis
 * Leopold B. Felsen
 * Leopold Biwald
 * Leopold Infeld
 * Leopoldo Máximo Falicov
 * Leopoldo Nobili
 * Leptogenesis (physics)
 * Lepton
 * Lepton epoch
 * Lepton mixing matrix
 * Lepton number
 * Leptoquark
 * Leroy Dubeck
 * Les Houches Accords
 * Leslie H. Martin
 * Leslie Martin (disambiguation)
 * Leslie cube
 * Leste
 * Lester Germer
 * Lester Hogan
 * Let There Be Light (Howard Smith book)
 * Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
 * Lettere al Nuovo Cimento
 * Leucippus
 * Lev Artsimovich
 * Lev Gor'kov
 * Lev Landau
 * Lev Lipatov
 * Lev Okun
 * Lev Pavlovich Rapoport
 * Lev Shubnikov
 * Lev Vaidman
 * Level-spacing distribution
 * Level of free convection
 * Level-set method
 * Lever
 * Leverett J-function
 * Levi-Civita symbol
 * Levitated dipole
 * Levitation
 * Lew Kowarski
 * Lewi Tonks
 * Lewis Fry Richardson
 * Lewis M. Branscomb
 * Lewis Salter
 * Lewis number
 * Lewis pair
 * Leyden jar
 * Leó Szilárd
 * Li Aizhen
 * Lianxing Wen
 * Lichtenberg figure
 * Lie superalgebra
 * Lieb–Liniger model
 * Liesegang rings
 * Lift-induced drag
 * Lift-to-drag ratio
 * Lift (force)
 * Lift coefficient
 * Lifted condensation level
 * Lifting-line theory
 * Ligand K-edge
 * Light
 * Light-dragging effects
 * Light-induced voltage alteration
 * Light-year
 * Light dark matter
 * Light air
 * Light beam
 * Light cone
 * Light-cone coordinates
 * Light cone gauge
 * Light dark matter
 * Light field
 * Light front holography
 * Light front quantization
 * Light pillar
 * Light scattering
 * Light scattering by particles
 * Light-water reactor
 * Lightcraft
 * Lighter than air
 * Lightest Supersymmetric Particle
 * Lighthill mechanism
 * Lightning
 * Liljequist parhelion
 * Limit loads
 * Limiting magnitude
 * Lincoln Wolfenstein
 * Lindblad equation
 * Lindblad superoperator
 * Line element
 * Line of action
 * Line of force
 * Line source
 * Linear-rotational analogs
 * Linear acetylenic carbon
 * Linear canonical transformation
 * Linear combination of atomic orbitals
 * Linear compressor
 * Linear density
 * Linear dynamical system
 * Linear elasticity
 * Linear energy transfer
 * Linear entropy
 * Linear flow on the torus
 * Linear motion
 * Linear particle accelerator
 * Linear phase
 * Linear polarization
 * Linear response function
 * Linearised Einstein field equations
 * Linearization
 * Linearized gravity
 * Linus Pauling
 * Lionel G. Harrison
 * Lionel Robert Wilberforce
 * Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)
 * Liouville dynamical system
 * Liouville field theory
 * Lippmann electrometer
 * Lippmann–Schwinger equation
 * Liquefaction
 * Liquefaction of gases
 * Liquid
 * Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
 * Liquid bubble
 * Liquid crystal
 * Liquid-crystal laser
 * Liquid-crystal polymer
 * Liquid drop model
 * Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
 * Liquid helium
 * Liquid hydrogen
 * Liquid oxygen
 * Liquid water path
 * Liquidus
 * Lisa Randall
 * Lise Meitner
 * Lissajous orbit
 * List of Cornell Manhattan Project people
 * List of Directors General of CERN
 * List of Feynman diagrams
 * List of IEEE awards
 * List of IEEE societies
 * List of Large Hadron Collider experiments
 * List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees
 * List of Nikola Tesla patents
 * List of Nobel laureates in Physics
 * List of OSA awards
 * List of Super Proton Synchrotron experiments
 * List of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities
 * List of accelerators in particle physics
 * List of alpha emitting materials
 * List of area moments of inertia
 * List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes
 * List of baryons
 * List of black holes
 * List of centroids
 * List of common physics notations
 * List of cosmic microwave background experiments
 * List of cosmologists
 * List of dynamical systems and differential equations topics
 * List of electromagnetism equations
 * List of elementary physics formulae
 * List of equations in classical mechanics
 * List of equations in fluid mechanics
 * List of equations in gravitation
 * List of equations in nuclear and particle physics
 * List of equations in quantum mechanics
 * List of equations in wave theory
 * List of experimental errors and frauds in physics
 * List of fluid flows named after people
 * List of fluid mechanics journals
 * List of fusion experiments
 * List of fusion power technologies
 * List of geophysicists
 * List of historic tsunamis
 * List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after people
 * List of important publications in geology
 * List of important publications in physics
 * List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
 * List of laser applications
 * List of laser articles
 * List of laser types
 * List of lens designs
 * List of letters used in mathematics and science
 * List of light sources
 * List of loop quantum gravity researchers
 * List of materials properties
 * List of mathematical topics in quantum theory
 * List of mathematical topics in relativity
 * List of mesons
 * List of moments of inertia
 * List of neutrino experiments
 * List of noise topics
 * List of nonlinear partial differential equations
 * List of ocean circulation models
 * List of orbits
 * List of particles
 * List of photonics equations
 * List of physical quantities
 * List of physicists
 * List of physics concepts in primary and secondary education curricula
 * List of physics journals
 * List of plasma (physics) articles
 * List of plasma physicists
 * List of quantum field theories
 * List of quantum gravity researchers
 * List of quasiparticles
 * List of refractive indices
 * List of relativistic equations
 * List of rogue waves
 * List of scientific constants named after people
 * List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein
 * List of scientists whose names are used as SI units
 * List of scientists whose names are used as non SI units
 * List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants
 * List of semiconductor materials
 * List of standard Gibbs free energies of formation
 * List of states of matter
 * List of string theory topics
 * List of synchrotron radiation facilities
 * List of telescope types
 * List of textbooks in statistical mechanics
 * List of theoretical physicists
 * List of thermal conductivities
 * List of thermodynamic properties
 * List of things named after Albert Einstein
 * List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
 * List of types of interferometers
 * List of unsolved problems in physics
 * List of unusual units of measurement
 * List of waves named after people
 * List of works by Nikolay Bogolyubov
 * Listing's law
 * Lithium-ion capacitor
 * Lithium Tokamak Experiment
 * Lithium burning
 * Lithium iron phosphate battery
 * Lithium triborate
 * Little Higgs
 * Little hierarchy problem
 * Little string theory
 * Little–Parks effect
 * Liu Chen (physicist)
 * Live MOS
 * Living Reviews in Relativity
 * Living Reviews in Solar Physics
 * Liviu Constantinescu
 * Liénard equation
 * Liénard–Wiechert potential
 * Llevantades
 * Lloyd's mirror
 * Lloyd Berkner
 * Lloyd Cross
 * Load factor (aeronautics)
 * Local-density approximation
 * Local Lorentz covariance
 * Local density of states
 * Local hidden-variable theory
 * Local oxidation nanolithography
 * Local quantum field theory
 * Local reference frame
 * Local spacetime structure
 * Local symmetry
 * Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh
 * Lock-in amplifier
 * Lockin effect
 * Logarithmic Schrödinger equation
 * Logarithmic conformal field theory
 * Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
 * London equations
 * London field
 * London moment
 * London penetration depth
 * Long-lived fission product
 * Long-period fiber grating
 * Long-range order
 * Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment
 * Long Josephson junction
 * Long baseline acoustic positioning system
 * Long delayed echo
 * Long path laser
 * Long wavelength limit
 * Longitudinal static stability
 * Look-elsewhere effect
 * Looming and similar refraction phenomena
 * Loop braid group
 * Loop entropy
 * Loop integral
 * Loop quantum cosmology
 * Loop quantum gravity
 * Loren Acton
 * Lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations
 * Lorentz Medal
 * Lorentz covariance
 * Lorentz ether theory
 * Lorentz factor
 * Lorentz force
 * Lorentz force velocimetry
 * Lorentz group
 * Lorentz interval
 * Lorentz invariance in loop quantum gravity
 * Lorentz scalar
 * Lorentz transformation
 * Lorentz–Heaviside units
 * Lorenz Hengler
 * Lorenz S. Cederbaum
 * Lorenz gauge condition
 * Lorenzo A. Richards
 * Lorin Blodget
 * Loránd Eötvös
 * Los Alamos National Laboratory
 * Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
 * Los Alamos Primer
 * Loschmidt's paradox
 * Loschmidt constant
 * Lossy medium
 * Loss–DiVincenzo quantum computer
 * Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim
 * Lotus effect
 * Loudness
 * Loudspeaker acoustics
 * Louis-Sébastien Lenormand
 * Louis Alan Hazeltine
 * Louis Alfred Becquerel
 * Louis B. Slichter
 * Louis Essen
 * Louis Georges Gouy
 * Louis Harold Gray
 * Louis Michel (physicist)
 * Louis Moresi
 * Louis Néel
 * Louis Paul Cailletet
 * Louis Plack Hammett
 * Louis Rendu
 * Louis Ridenour
 * Louis Rosen
 * Louis Slotin
 * Louis Winslow Austin
 * Louis Witten
 * Louis de Broglie
 * Louise Dolan
 * Loup Verlet
 * Love wave
 * Low-dimensional chaos in stellar pulsations
 * Low-energy electron diffraction
 * Low-g condition
 * Low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
 * Low-κ dielectric
 * Low Earth orbit
 * Low Energy Antiproton Ring
 * Low Energy Ion Ring
 * Low field NMR
 * Low frequency
 * Lower critical solution temperature
 * Lower tangent arc
 * Loyd A. Jones
 * Lubberts effect
 * Luboš Motl
 * Lubrication
 * Lubrication theory
 * Lubricity
 * Luca Gammaitoni
 * Luca Turin
 * Lucas cell
 * Luciano Maiani
 * Luciano Pietronero
 * Lucien Hardy
 * Lucien LaCoste
 * Lucio Russo
 * Lucy Jones
 * Ludvig Faddeev
 * Ludvig Lorenz
 * Ludwieg tube
 * Ludwig A. Colding
 * Ludwig Boltzmann
 * Ludwig Hopf
 * Ludwig Lange (physicist)
 * Ludwig Prandtl
 * Ludwig Schupmann
 * Ludwig Waldmann
 * Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert
 * Ludwig Zehnder
 * Ludwik Leibler
 * Ludwik Silberstein
 * Luigi Galvani
 * Luigi Puccianti
 * Luis Walter Alvarez
 * Luisa Ottolini
 * Luise Meyer-Schützmeister
 * Luiz Pinguelli Rosa
 * Luke's variational principle
 * Luke Chia-Liu Yuan
 * Lumen (unit)
 * Luminance
 * Luminescence
 * Luminiferous aether
 * Luminophore
 * Luminosity
 * Luminosity distance
 * Luminosity function
 * Luminous efficacy
 * Luminous energy
 * Luminous flux
 * Luminous intensity
 * Lumped component
 * Lumped element model
 * Lumped parameters
 * Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
 * Lunar eclipse
 * Lunar theory
 * Lund string model
 * Lundquist number
 * Luneburg lens
 * Lunitidal interval
 * Luttinger's theorem
 * Luttinger liquid
 * Luttinger parameter
 * Luttinger–Kohn model
 * Lux
 * Lyapunov exponent
 * Lyapunov time
 * Lyapunov vector
 * Lyc photon
 * Lyman-alpha forest
 * Lyman-alpha line
 * Lyman limit
 * Lyman series
 * Lyman–Werner photons
 * Lyn Evans
 * Lyoluminescence
 * Lyot filter
 * Lyot stop
 * László Tisza
 * Léon Brillouin
 * Léon Foucault
 * Léon Rosenfeld
 * Léon Van Hove
 * LC circuit
 * L–C loaded