Introduction |
Universal laws of nature / 1: |
Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations / 2: |
Flows in phase space / 3: |
Motion in a central potential / 4: |
Small oscillations about equilibria / 5: |
Integrable and chaotic oscillations / 6: |
Parameter-dependent transformations / 7: |
Linear transformations, rotations and rotating frames / 8: |
Rigid body dynamics / 9: |
Lagrangian dynamics and transformations in configuration space / 10: |
Relativity, geometry, and gravity / 11: |
Generalized vs. nonholonomic coordinates / 12: |
Noncanonical flows / 13: |
Damped driven Newtonian systems / 14: |
Hamiltonian dynamics and transformations in phase space / 15: |
Integrable canonical flows / 16: |
Nonintegrable canonical flows / 17: |
Simulations, complexity, and laws of nature / 18: |
An apology |
The beginning of the journey to the small: cutting paper |
To molecules and atoms |
The magic mystery of the quanta |
Dazzling velocities |
The elementary particle zoo before 1970 |
Life and death |
The crazy kaons |
The invisible quarks |
Fields or bootstraps? |
The Yang-Mills bonanza |
Superconducting empty space: the Higgs-Kibble machine |
Models |
Colouring in the strong forces |
The magnetic monopole |
Gypsy |
The brilliance of the standard model |
Anomalies |
Deceptive perfection |
Weighing neutrinos / 19: |
The great desert / 20: |
Technicolor / 21: |
Grand unification / 22: |
Supergravity / 23: |
Eleven dimensional space-time / 24: |
Attaching the super string / 25: |
Into the black hole / 26: |
Theories that do not yet exist / 27: |
Dominance of the rule of the smallest / 28: |
Introduction |
Universal laws of nature / 1: |
Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations / 2: |