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• Chapter 1: The Way of Science: Experience and Reason
  • 1.1: Observing the Night Sky
  • 1.2: Ancient Greek Theories
  • 1.3: Copernicus's Theory
  • 1.4: Kepler's Theory
  • 1.5: The Scientific Revolution (1)
  • 1.6: The Copernicun Revolution (3)
  
  
• Chapter 2: Atoms: The Nature of Things
  • 2.1: The Greek Atom (2)
  • 2.2: Atoms and Molecules (5)
  • 2.3: The Atom's Explanatory Power (2)
  • 2.4: Metric Distances and Powers of 10
  • 2.5: The Smallness of Atoms (2)
  • 2.6: Chemistry and Life
  
  
• Chapter 3: How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions
  • 3.1: Aristotelian Physics
  • 3.2: The Law of Inertia
  • 3.3: Speed and Velocity
  • 3.4: Acceleration
  • 3.5: Falling
  • 3.6: Velocity (4)
  • 3.7: Acceleration (2)
  • 3.8: Falling (5)
  
  
• Chapter 4: Why Things Move as They Do
  • 4.1: Force
  • 4.2: Newton's Law of Motion
  • 4.3: Weight
  • 4.4: Law of Force Pairs
  • 4.5: The Automobile
  • 4.6: Newton's Law of Motion (11)
  • 4.7: The Law of Force Pairs (4)
  
  
• Chapter 5: Newton's Universe
  • 5.1: The Idea of Gravity (1)
  • 5.2: The Law of Gravity
  • 5.3: Gravitational Collapse (3)
  • 5.4: Beyond Newton
  • 5.5: The Law of Gravity (8)
  
  
• Chapter 6: Conservation of Energy: You Can't Get Ahead
  • 6.1: Work
  • 6.2: Energy
  • 6.3: The Law of Energy and Energy Transformations
  • 6.4: Power
  • 6.5: Work (4)
  • 6.6: Energy (4)
  • 6.7: The Law of Energy and Energy Transformations (2)
  • 6.8: Power (4)
  
  
• Chapter 7: Second Law of Thermodynamics: -and You Can't Even Break Them
  • 7.1: Heating
  • 7.2: Heat Engines (1)
  • 7.3: Energy Quality and the Law of Entropy
  • 7.4: The Automobile and Transportation
  • 7.5: The Steam-Electric Power Plant
  • 7.6: Exponential Growth and Resource Use
  • 7.7: Heat Engines (5)
  • 7.8: The Automobile and Transportation (2)
  • 7.9: The Steam-Electric Power Plant (1)
  • 7.10: Exponential Growth (4)
  
  
• Chapter 8: Light and Electromagnetism
  • 8.1: Waves
  • 8.2: Interference
  • 8.3: Light (1)
  • 8.4: Electric Force, Magnetic Force
  • 8.5: The Planetary Model of the Atom (1)
  • 8.6: Force Fields
  • 8.7: Waves (7)
  • 8.8: The Electric Force
  
  
• Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Radiation and Global Climate Change
  • 9.1: Electromagnetic Waves
  • 9.2: The Complete Spectrum (1)
  • 9.3: Global Ozone Depletion (1)
  • 9.4: Global Warming (1)
  • 9.5: Electromagnetic Waves (6)
  • 9.6: Ozone Depletion and Global Warming (1)
  
  
• Chapter 10: The Special Theory of Relativity
  • 10.1: Galilean Relativity (1)
  • 10.2: The Principle of Relativity
  • 10.3: The Constancy of Lightspeed
  • 10.4: The Relativity of Time (1)
  • 10.5: The Relativity of Space and Mass (4)
  • 10: Problems (5)
  
  
• Chapter 11: The General Theory of Relativity and the New Cosmology
  • 11.1: Einstein's Gravity: The General Theory of Relativity
  • 11.2: The Big Bang
  • 11.3: The Geometry of the Universe
  • 11.4: The Shape of the Universe
  • 11.5: Dark Matter
  • 11.6: The Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy
  • 11.7: Cosmic Inflation, and a Brief History of the Universe
  
  
• Chapter 12: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
  • 12.1: Are There Other "Good" Places for Life?
  • 12.2: Does Life Originate on ""Good"" Planets? (3)
  • 12.3: Does Life Develop Intelligence or Technology?
  • 12.4: Interstellar Communication and Travel (3)
  • 12.5: Pseudoscience
  • 12.6: Interstellar Communication and Travel (3)
  
  
• Chapter 13: The Quantum Idea
  • 13.1: The Post-Newtonian Revolution
  • 13.2: The Quantization of Light and the Quantum World
  • 13.3: Electron Interference and the Quantum Mystery of Matter
  • 13.4: Quantum Uncertainty
  • 13.5: The Quantization of Light (3)
  • 13.6: The Waviness of Matter (4)
  
  
• Chapter 14: The Quantum Universe
  • 14.1: The Uncertainty Principle
  • 14.2: The Effect of Observation (1)
  • 14.3: Quantum Entanglement
  • 14.4: Quantum Reality and a Post-Newtonian Worldview
  • 14.5: Observing Atomic Spectra
  • 14.6: The Quantum Atom (1)
  • 14.7: The Uncertainty Principle (2)
  • 14.8: The Quantum Atom (2)
  
  
• Chapter 15: The Nucleus and Radioactivity: A New Force-
  • 15.1: Nuclear Forces and Structure (1)
  • 15.2: Radioactive Decay
  • 15.3: Half-Life (4)
  • 15.4: Radioactive Dating
  • 15.5: Risk Assessment
  • 15.6: Half-Life (1)
  • 15.7: Radioactive Dating (4)
  • 15.8: Radiation Risks and Risk Assessment (1)
  
  
• Chapter 16: Fusion and Fission: -and a New Energy
  • 16.1: Fusion and the Nuclear Energy Curve
  • 16.2: Origin of the Elements (1)
  • 16.3: Fission and the Chain Reaction
  • 16.4: Fission and Fusion Weapons
  • 16.5: Nuclear Terrorism
  • 16.6: Fission and the Chain Reaction (2)
  • 16.7: Fission and Fusion Weapons (3)
  
  
• Chapter 17: The Energy Challenge
  • 17.1: Energy History and Future (2)
  • 17.2: Nuclear Power
  • 17.3: Assessing Nuclear and Coal Power
  • 17.4: Renewables
  • 17.5: Efficiency
  • 17.6: Energy History and Future (2)
  • 17.7: Coal and Nuclear Power (3)
  • 17.8: Renewables and Energy Efficiency (2)
  
  
• Chapter 18: Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum
  • 18.1: Quantum Electrodynamics and Antimatter (1)
  • 18.2: Electroweak Unification (1)
  • 18.3: The Strong Force
  • 18.4: Quantum Gravity
  • 18.5: Quantum Electrodynamics and Antimatter (4)