Six Easy Pieces  8703

  • Publisher’s note
  • Introduction    Paul Davies
  • Special Preface
  • Feynman’s Preface
  1. Atoms in Motion
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    1. Introduction
    2. Matter is made of atoms
    3. Atomic processes
    4. Chemical reactions

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  2. Basic Physics
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    1. Introduction
    2. Physics before 1920
    3. Quantum physics
    4. Nuclei and particles

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  3. The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences
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    1. Introduction
    2. Chemistry
    3. Biology
    4. Astronomy
    5. Geology
    6. Psychology
    7. How did it get that way?

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  4. Conservation of Energy
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    1. What is energy?
    2. Gravitational potential energy
    3. Kinetic energy
    4. Other forms of energy

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  5. The Theory of Gravitation
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    1. Planetary motions
    2. Kepler’s laws
    3. Development of dynamics
    4. Newton’s law of gravitation
    5. Universal gravitation
    6. Cavendish’s experiment
    7. What is gravity?
    8. Gravity and relativity

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  6. Quantum behaviour
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      1. Atomic mechanics
      2. An experiment with bullets
      3. An experiment with waves
      4. An experiment with electrons
      5. The interference of electron waves
      6. Watching the electrons
      7. First principles of quantum mechanics
      8. The uncertainty principle

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