Physics skills for AI agents

Triggers when users need help with astrophysics, including stellar structure and evolution, the HR diagram, and nuclear fusion in stars. Activate for questions about white dwarfs, neutron stars, supernovae, galaxies, dark matter, dark energy, cosmic microwave background, Big Bang cosmology, and observational techniques in astronomy.

Triggers when users need help with classical mechanics, including Newton's laws, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations, conservation laws, and rotational dynamics. Activate for questions about oscillations, central force problems, rigid body motion, Noether's theorem, orbital mechanics, and engineering applications of classical mechanics.

Triggers when users need help with computational physics, including numerical simulation methods and scientific computing. Activate for questions about molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo methods, finite element and finite difference methods, N-body simulations, lattice methods, parallel computing for physics, visualization of physical systems, and error analysis in numerical simulations.

Triggers when users need help with electromagnetism, including Maxwell's equations, electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electromagnetic waves. Activate for questions about Gauss's law, Coulomb's law, Ampere's law, Biot-Savart law, electromagnetic induction, dielectrics, magnetic materials, waveguides, antennas, and electrical engineering applications.

Triggers when users need help with fluid dynamics, including the Navier-Stokes equations, Bernoulli's principle, and viscous flow. Activate for questions about boundary layers, turbulence, potential flow, compressible flow, dimensional analysis, similarity, computational fluid dynamics, and applications in aerospace and meteorology.

Triggers when users need help with general relativity, including the equivalence principle, curved spacetime, and Einstein field equations. Activate for questions about the Schwarzschild solution, geodesics, gravitational time dilation, gravitational waves, black holes, cosmological solutions, Friedmann equations, and GPS relativity corrections.

Triggers when users need help with nuclear physics, including nuclear structure, radioactive decay, and nuclear reactions. Activate for questions about the shell model, liquid drop model, alpha beta gamma decay, fission, fusion, cross sections, nuclear binding energy, nuclear power, medical isotopes, radiocarbon dating, and radiation safety.

Triggers when users need help with optics, including geometric optics, wave optics, and modern photonics. Activate for questions about reflection, refraction, lenses, mirrors, interference, diffraction, polarization, Fourier optics, laser physics, fiber optics, optical instruments, thin films, and holography.

Triggers when users need help with quantum field theory, including second quantization, the Dirac equation, and QED. Activate for questions about Feynman diagrams, renormalization, gauge theories, the Standard Model, symmetry breaking, path integrals, scattering theory, and applications in particle physics.

Triggers when users need help with quantum mechanics, including wave functions, the Schrodinger equation, operators, and observables. Activate for questions about the uncertainty principle, hydrogen atom, angular momentum, spin, perturbation theory, variational method, WKB approximation, identical particles, entanglement, and the measurement problem.

Triggers when users need help with solid-state physics, including crystal structure, band theory, and electronic properties of materials. Activate for questions about Bravais lattices, reciprocal space, Bloch's theorem, semiconductors, p-n junctions, transistors, superconductivity, BCS theory, magnetism, phonons, and materials science.

Triggers when users need help with special relativity, including Lorentz transformations, time dilation, and length contraction. Activate for questions about relativistic momentum and energy, four-vectors, spacetime diagrams, Minkowski space, mass-energy equivalence, relativistic kinematics, the twin paradox, and experimental evidence for special relativity.

Triggers when users need help with statistical mechanics, including ensembles, partition functions, and quantum statistics. Activate for questions about Boltzmann distribution, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, ideal gases, phase transitions, Ising model, mean field theory, fluctuations, and connections to thermodynamics.

Triggers when users need help with thermodynamics, including the laws of thermodynamics, heat engines, entropy, and free energy. Activate for questions about Gibbs and Helmholtz free energy, phase transitions, chemical potential, thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell relations, and applications in chemistry and engineering.