<p>Why isn't chemistry considered physics? Isn't it a physical science? And don't physics encompass all physical sciences?</p>
<p>There are parts of chemistry that are considered physics. Mainly physical chemistry and chemical engineering</p>
<p>I was just curious. I thought chemistry was considered a physical science. Now that you said that it made me thing of organic chemistry and now I realize that chemistry is it’s own thing rather than being lumped in with physics or biology.</p>
<p>Chemistry is a physical science. It’s considered a separate field from physics because its focus is so specialized – interactions between atoms. On a theoretical level, most of chemistry (even organic chem) boils down eventually to thermodynamics, but on a practical level the daily workings of chemistry feel very different from the daily workings of physics.</p>
<p>Physics isn’t the same as physical science…</p>
<p>Chemistry is just a concentration of Physics like statistics is a concentration of mathematics.
Everything you see in Chemistry is derived from Physics… Physics is the science of the universe. Math? Physics? the same thing. Mathematics explain in numbers what Physics explain visually. It’s all interconnected. Don’t get into the Chemistry or Physics battle, its all the same.</p>
<p>Yes. Chemistry is a concentration/derivation/application of physics. Physics is the fundamental science. The electromagnetic (actually electroweak) force governs all of chemistry and everyday mechanics we experience. However, I would not say mathematics and physics are the same thing. They certainly are not. Mathematics is pure logic. Pure math is not computational. The application of mathematics to better understand and quantify observed physical phenomena is a tool physicists use. Historically, a lot of new math was developed by physicists to better quantify their work. This, however, upset mathematicians because it was typically botched math they conjured up. But, mathematicians later cleaned everything from a rigorous mathematical perspective.</p>