| CHAPTER 1 Greek Physics 1 |
| CHAPTER 2 Greek Astronomy 9 |
| CHAPTER 3 Pre-Galilean Science 17 |
| CHAPTER 4 The Physics of Galileo 34 |
| CHAPTER 5 Newton and His Physics: The Nature of Theory 43 |
| Time as a Basic Entity 57 |
| The Concept of Speed 58 |
| The Concept of Velocity 61 |
| The Concept of Acceleration 62 |
| Laws of Motion-The Concept of Force 65 |
| CHAPTER 6 Newton's Law of Gravity and His Contemporaries 69 |
| CHAPTER 7 The Post-Newtonian Era: Dynamic Conservation Principles 89 |
| Conservation of Momentum 90 |
| The Concept of Energy 94 |
| Conservation of Energy 98 |
| Conservation of Angular Momentum 100 |
| CHAPTER 8 The Post-Newtonian Era: Minimal Principles and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics 104 |
| The Concept of Action 104 |
| Hamilton's Principle of Least Action 106 |
| The Contributions of Lagrange 113 |
| CHAPTER 9 The Growth of Optics, Electricity, and Magnetism 122 |
| The End of the Newtonian Era 122 |
| Post-Newtonian Optics 123 |
| Electricity and Magnetism 125 |
| Electric and Magnetic Fields 128 |
| Dynamics of Electric Cuffents 132 |
| CHAPTER 10 The Faraday-Maxwell Era 138 |
| The Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction 144 |
| Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory 146 |
| Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory of Light 152 |
| CHAPTER 11 The Broadest Laws of Physics: Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Mechanics 156 |
| Thermodynamics 157 |
| Kinetic Theory 177 |
| Statistical Mechanics 182 |
| CHAPTER 12 Origin of the Quantum Theory 190 |
| CHAPTER 13 Planck's Black-Body Radiation Formula and Einstein's Photon 204 |
| Einstein's Contribution to the Quantum Theory 212 |
| CHAPTER 14 Experimental Physics at the Close of the Nineteenth Century 217 |
| CHAPTER 15 Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity 241 |
| The Revolutionary Nature of the Theory of Relativity 251 |
| The General Theory of Relativity 262 |
| CHAPTER 16 Atomic Theory: The Bohr Atom 268 |
| CHAPTER 17 Quantum Mechanics 282 |
| Quantum Electrodynamics 302 |
| CHAPTER 18 Nuclear Physics 308 |
| CHAPTER 19 Particle Physics 329 |
| CHAPTER 20 Cosmology 356 |
| Epilogue 384 |
| Notes 391 |
| Recommended Readings 399 |
| Index 403 |
| CHAPTER 1 Greek Physics 1 |
| CHAPTER 2 Greek Astronomy 9 |
| CHAPTER 3 Pre-Galilean Science 17 |
| CHAPTER 4 The Physics of Galileo 34 |
| CHAPTER 5 Newton and His Physics: The Nature of Theory 43 |
| Time as a Basic Entity 57 |
