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physical system
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portion of the physical universe chosen for analysis; everything outside the system is known as the environment
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- universe
- Has part
- physical object
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- studied by
- physical science
- manifestation of
- physics
- Commons category
- Physical systems
- topic's main category
- Category:Physical systems
- has characteristic
- physical state
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Encyclopedic overview
Weather map as an example of a physical system
A physical system is a collection of physical objects under study. The collection differs from a set; the objects must coexist and have some physical relationship. In other words, it is a portion of the physical universe chosen for analysis. Everything outside the system is known as the environment, which is ignored except for its effects on the system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “physical system” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.