Preface |
ix |
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Introduction |
1 |
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A Vast And Most Excellent Science |
5 |
Toward A Science Of Mechanics |
20 |
The Denouement: Newton's Laws |
32 |
The Moon And The Apple |
41 |
The Romance Of Energy |
53 |
One Last Part For The Machine |
67 |
Waves |
79 |
Does The Earth Really Move? |
92 |
The Birth Of Relativity |
103 |
The Wedding Of Space And Time |
117 |
E=mc2 And All That |
129 |
Did God Have Any Choice? |
138 |
The Atom Returns |
156 |
Rutherford Probes The Atom |
168 |
The Atom And The Quantum |
182 |
Particles And Waves |
200 |
Does God Play Dice? |
213 |
Schrödinger's Cat |
225 |
The Dreams Stuff is Made of |
234 |
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Afterword |
252 |
Bibliography |
253 |
Exercises |
256 |
Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises |
271 |
Index |
275 |