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| Preface | |
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| How light behaves | |
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| First observations | |
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| The speed of light in vacuum | |
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| White light and colors | |
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| Sidedness | |
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| Variations in intensity | |
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| The rainbow | |
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| Newton's particle theory | |
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| Theory building | |
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| The particle theory of refraction | |
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| Ramifications | |
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| A decisive test | |
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| Summary | |
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| Newton himself | |
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| A wave theory of light | |
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| Waves | |
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| Some general properties of waves | |
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| Light as a wave? | |
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| Refraction quantitatively | |
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| Waves in perspective | |
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| Interference | |
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| Interference defined | |
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| Two-source interference | |
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| Interference in light? | |
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| Measuring the wavelength of light | |
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| Color and wavelength | |
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| Thomas Young | |
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| The single slit | |
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| More interference phenomena | |
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| Electromagnetic waves | |
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| The electric field | |
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| Franklin's clapper | |
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| The magnetic field | |
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| The entities | |
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| Faraday's law | |
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| Electromagnetic waves | |
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| The electromagnetic spectrum | |
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| "Sidedness" explained and explored | |
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| Odds and ends | |
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| The photon | |
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| Preview | |
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| The photoelectric effect | |
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| The Compton effect | |
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| Einstein's Nobel Prize | |
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| The bare essentials | |
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| The wave-particle duality | |
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| Hertz revisited | |
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| A connection via probability | |
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| A trajectory for a photon? | |
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| The wave-particle duality | |
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| Understanding light: some further help | |
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| Does the speed of light depend on the motion of the source of light? | |
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| Transition | |
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| The question answered | |
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| A few comments | |
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| The contrast | |
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| The principles of the Special Theory of Relativity | |
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| The big picture | |
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| The two principles | |
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| The logic of our development | |
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| The constancy of the speed of light | |
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| Synchronizing clocks within a single reference frame | |
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| The relativity of simultaneity | |
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| Albert Einstein | |
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| Time dilation and length contraction | |
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| Time dilation | |
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| Checking a tacit assumption: perpendicular lengths | |
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| An interlude on radioactivity | |
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| A test of time dilation | |
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| Length contraction | |
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| The muons revisited | |
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| Compendium | |
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| E=mc[superscript 2] | |
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| Energy, mass, and momentum reviewed | |
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| A thought experiment for [Delta]E=([Delta]m)c[superscript 2] | |
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| Conversions and parallel changes | |
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| Mass and speed | |
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| From [Delta]E=([Delta]m)c[superscript 2] to E=mc[superscript 2] | |
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| Nuclear fission | |
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| Processes in nuclear physics | |
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| Scales of energy release | |
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| Leo Szilard | |
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| Retrospection | |
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| The twins | |
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| Theory | |
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| Experimental test | |
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| Reflection | |
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| The Lorentz transformations | |
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| Deriving the Lorentz transformations | |
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| Combining velocities | |
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| Trying to beat the speed of light | |
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| The chapter in a nutshell | |
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| Space and time | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Energy | |
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| The dependence of mass on speed | |
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| More about E=mc[superscript 2] | |
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| Index | |