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| Preface | |
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| Additional Notes, Primarily for the Instructor | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Atoms to Stars: Scales of Size, Energy, and Force | |
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| The microbe and the elephant: the hierarchy of size | |
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| Energy and stability | |
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| The four forces | |
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| Atoms and the periodic table of elements | |
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| Seeing atoms: the scanning tunneling microscope | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Some Tools of the Trade: Numbers, Quantities, and Units | |
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| The language of physics: symbols and formulas | |
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| Once more the four forces, this time quantitatively | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| There Is No Rest: Describing Motion | |
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| Getting started: simplification and approximation: models | |
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| Keep your eye on the ball: where is it and where is it going? | |
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| The mathematics of change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Forces and Motion: Newton's Framework | |
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| Newton's laws of motion | |
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| Adding forces: vectors | |
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| Momentum and its conservation: action, reaction, and Newton's third law | |
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| One more motion that is everywhere: rotation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Laws and Their Limits: The Organization of Scientific Knowledge | |
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| How do we know? Reality and interpretation | |
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| The Newtonian model and its limitations | |
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| Mechanics and beyond | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Energy and Its Conservation | |
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| Work: not always what you think | |
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| Energy of motion: kinetic energy | |
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| Energy of position: potential energy | |
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| Friction and the loss of mechanical energy | |
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| Internal energy and the law of conservation of energy | |
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| Work and energy revisited | |
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| Power: not what the power company sells | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Materials and Models | |
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| Ideal systems and models: the ideal gas | |
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| Other systems: adding pieces from reality | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Electricity: It Is Everywhere | |
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| The electric force | |
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| The electric field | |
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| Field lines and flux | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| More on Electricity: From Force to Energy, from Field to Potential | |
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| Electric potential energy and electric potential | |
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| Energy transformations and electric circuits | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Magnetism: Electricity's Traveling Companion | |
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| Again-force, field, and motion | |
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| The electron: an old friend turns out to be the elemental magnet | |
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| Generating electricity: motional emf and Faraday's law | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Waves: Mechanical and Electromagnetic | |
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| What is a wave? | |
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| What can waves do? Describing waves and their properties | |
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| Sound and musical scales | |
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| Maxwell's great contribution: electromagnetic waves | |
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| Observing interference of light | |
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| Reflection and refraction | |
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| Where Einstein started: electromagnetism and relativity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Quantum Physics | |
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| The �old� quantum physics | |
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| The new synthesis | |
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| Order in the universe: the elements | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| The Nucleus: Heart of the Atom | |
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| Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, and the beginning of nuclear physics | |
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| What is the universe made of? The stable nuclei and their binding energy | |
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| Radioactivity | |
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| Biological effects | |
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| The nuclear force | |
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| Observing radioactive radiations | |
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| Nuclear reactions | |
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| Particles | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Energy in Civilization | |
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| The flow of energy | |
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| Electric energy: what is it and what does it do for us? | |
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| DC and AC: transformer and generator | |
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| Energy storage | |
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| Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics: the limits of energy transformation | |
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| Our addiction to fossil fuels | |
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| Other sources of energy | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| Atomic Physics Pays Off: Solar Cells, Transistors, and the Silicon Age | |
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| The real solid: metals, insulators, and semiconductors | |
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| Tiny changes and vast consequences: impurities in semiconductors | |
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| The transistor and the information revolution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review activities and problems | |
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| There Is No End | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Some Constants, Astronomical Quantities, and Masses | |
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| Index | |