surface physics
noun
Physics that deals with surfaces; specifically the branch of physical science that deals with the surface of a solid, or the interface between any two phases, and the physical phenomena that occur there.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), mathematician and astronomer.
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