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“…Measurement and motion : Physics and the everyday world -- Man is the measure of all things : measuring distance -- A prudent question is one half of wisdom : the scientific method -- All is number : the language of physics -- Bodies suffer no resistance but from the air : free falling -- A new machine for multiplying forces : pressure -- Motion will persist : momentum -- The most wonderful productions of the mechanical arts : measuring time -- All action has a reaction : laws of motion -- The frame of the system of the world : laws of gravity -- Oscillation is everywhere : harmonic motion -- There is no destruction of force : kinetic energy and potential energy -- Energy can be neither created or destroyed : the conservation of energy -- A new treatise on mechanics : energy and motion -- We must look to the heavens for the measure of the earth : SI units and physical constants -- Energy and matter : Materials and heat -- The first principles of the universe : models of matter --As the extension, so the force : stretching and squeezing -- The minute parts of matter are in rapid motion : fluids -- Searching out the
fire-secret : heat and transfers -- Elastical power in the air : the gas laws -- The energy of the universe is constant : internal energy and the first law of thermodynamics -- Heat can be a cause of motion : heat engines -- The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum : entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- The fluid and its vapour become one : changes of state and making bonds -- Colliding billiard balls in a box : the development of statistical mechanics -- Fetching some gold from the sun : thermal radiation -- Electricity and magnetism : Two forces unite -- Wondrous forces : magnetism -- The attraction of electricity : electric charge -- Potential energy becomes palpable motion : electric potential -- A tax on electrical energy : electric current and resistance -- Each metal has a certain power : making magnets --Electricity in motion : the motor effect -- The dominion of magnetic forces : induction and the generator effect -- Light itself is an electromagnetic disturbance : force fields and Maxwell's equations -- Man will imprison the power of the sun : generating electricity -- A small step in the control of nature : electronics -- Animal electricity : bioelectricity -- A totally unexpected scientific discovery : storing data -- An encyclopedia on the head of a pin : nanoelectronics -- A single pole, either north or south : magnetic monopoles -- Sound and light : The properties of waves -- There is geometry in the humming of the strings : music -- Light follows the path of least time : reflection and refraction -- A new visible world : focusing light -- Light is a wave : lumpy and wave-like light -- Light is never known to bend into the shadow : diffraction and interference -- The north and south sides of the ray : polarization --The trumpeters and the wave train : the Doppler effect and redshift -- These mysterious waves we cannot see : electromagnetic waves -- The language of spectra is a true music of the spheres : light from the atom -- Seeing with sound : piezoelectricity and ultrasound -- A large fluctuating echo : seeing beyond light -- The quantum world : Our uncertain universe -- The energy of light is distributed discontinuously in space : energy quanta -- They do not behave like anything that you have ever seen : particles and waves -- A new
idea of reality : quantum numbers -- All is waves : matrices and waves -- The cat is both alive and dead : Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- Spooky action at a distance : quantum entanglement -- The jewel of physics : quantum field theory -- Collaboration between parallel universes -- Nuclear and particle physics : Inside the atom -- Matter is not infinitely divisible -- A veritable transformation of matter -- The constitution of matter : the nucleus --The bricks of which atoms are built up : subatomic particles -- Little wisps of cloud : partic…”
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