Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction: The Importance of the Physicists’ View of Nature for Everyone
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Chapter 2
The Beginnings of Classical Physics
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Chapter 3
The Foundations of the Newtonian Paradigm: the Laws of Motion
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Chapter 4
The Denouement: the Universal Gravity Law
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Chapter 5
Matter, Energy, Conservation Laws, and the Rise of Materialism
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Chapter 6
Thermodynamics and Its Laws
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Chapter 7
Progressivity and Energy Consumption
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Chapter 8
Energy and Environment
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Chapter 9
From Being to Becoming: Entropy, Life, and Chaos Theory
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Chapter 10
Heat Death, Hangups, and the Question of Design
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Chapter 11
The Motion of Waves
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Chapter 12
Wave Interactions
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Chapter 13
Sound and Music and Light and Color
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Chapter 14
Electricity, Magnetism, Fields, and Waves
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Chapter 15
The Relativity of Time
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Chapter 16
The Relativity of Space and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation
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Chapter 17
The Universe
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Chapter 18
The World View of Classical Physics: Where Do We Go From Here?
Attention for Chapter 16:
The Relativity of Space and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation
