Physics: The Human Adventure
From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond

by Gerald Holton and Stephen G. Brush

CONTENTS


PART A: THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC COSMOLOGY
1. The Astronomy of Ancient Greece
2. Copernicus's Heliocentric Theory
3. On the Nature of Scientific Theory
4. Kepler's Laws
5. Galileo and the New Astronomy
   
   PART B: THE STUDY OF MOTION
6. Mathematics and the Description of Motion
7. Galileo and the Kinematics of Free Fall
8. Projectile Motion
   
   PART C: NEWTON'S LAWS AND HIS SYSTEM OF THE WORLD
9. Newton's Laws of Motion
10. Rotational motion
11. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
    
    PART D: ON STRUCTURE AND METHOD IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
12. On the Nature of Concepts
13. On the Duality and Growth of Science
14. On the Discovery of Laws
    
    PART E: THE LAWS OF CONSERVATION
15. The Law of Conservation of Mass
16. The Law of Conservation of Momentum
17. The Law of Conservation of Energy
18. The Law of Dissipation of Energy
    
    PART F: ORIGINS OF THE ATOMIC THEORY IN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY
19. The Physics of Gases
20. The Atomic Theory of Chemistry
21. The Periodic Table of Elements
22. The Kinetic-Molecular Theory of Gases
    
    PART G: LIGHT AND ELECTROMAGNETISM
23. The wave theory of light
24. Electrostatics
25. Electromagnetism, X-Rays, and Electrons
26. The Quantum Theory of Light
    
    PART H: THE ATOM AND THE UNIVERSE IN MODERN PHYSICS
27. Radioactivity and the Nuclear Atom
28. Bohr's Model of the Atom
29. Quantum Mechanics
30. Einstein's theory of relativity
31. The origin of the solar system and the expanding universe
32. Construction of the elements and the universe
33. Thematic Elements and Styles in Science
    
    Appendix
    General Bibliography
    Index