CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
INTRODUCTION xiii
1 A Vast and Most Excellent Science 1
2 Toward a Science of Mechanics 16
3 The Denouement: Newton's Laws 27
4 The Moon and the Apple 36
5 The Romance of Energy 46
6 One Last Part for the Machine 59
7 Waves 73
8 Does the Earth Really Move? 85
9 The Birth of Relativity 96
10 The Wedding of Space and Time 109
11 E = me2 and All That 122
12 Did God Have Any Choice? 130
13 The Atom Returns 150
14 Rutherford Probes the Atom 160
15 The Atom and the Quantum 173
16 Particles and Waves 192
17 Does God Play Dice? 205
18 Schrodinger's Cat 216
19 The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of 223
20 The Whole Shebang 238
Afterword 248
Questions and Exercises 249
Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises 273
Index 277