Introduction * Ancient ideas * Pythagoras and his followers * Earth and the heavens * Aristotle * Ancient elements * Archimedes (inc. simple machines) * The Aristotelian synthesis * Islamic advances * Medieval physicists * The Copernican Revolution * Galileo''s experiments * Kepler''s Laws * Descartes * Isaac Newton * Speed, velocity and motion * Mass and weight * Momentum, inertia and vis viva * Friction * Newton''s laws of motion * SUVAT equations * Work, energy and power * Kinetic and potential energy * Types of collision * Gravitation and orbits * Putting Newton to work (Lagrangian mechanics) * Harmonic motion (Euler) * Timekeeping * Rigid-body dynamics (angular momentum etc,) * Fictitious forces (centrifugal, coriolis) * The three-body problem * Chaos and complexity * Theories of matter * States of matter * Solids and their properties * Deformation and elasticity * Fluid mechanics * Fluid dynamics (Bernoulli effect etc.) * Ideal gases * Kinetic theory * Chemical elements * The periodic table * Introducing atomic structure * Chemical bonding * Chemical reactions * Ionization * Mass spectrometry * Intermolecular bonds (inc. solutions) * X-ray crystallography * Atomic force microscopy * Light from atoms * Black body radiation * Spectroscopy * Types of wave * Interference (inc. Huygens'' principle) * Sound waves * Harmonics * Doppler effect * Electromagnetic waves * Reflection (inc. Maupertuis'' principle) * Refraction * Diffraction * Wave scattering * Polarization * Wave modulation * Optical instruments * Telescopes * Microscopes * Interferometry * Holography * Infrared and ultraviolet * Radio and microwaves * X-rays and gamma rays * Waves and particles * Forms of energy * Temperature measurement * Heat transfer * Entropy * Laws of thermodynamics * Heat capacity * Changes of state * Heat engines * Static electricity * Current electricity * Electrical components * Circuits * Magnetism * Magnetic materials * Ampere and Coulomb''s laws * Electromagnetic induction * Alternating current * Electric motors * Generators * Piezoelectric effect * Semiconductors * Analogue and digital electronics * Electronic components * Superconductivity * Integrated circuits * Vacuum tubes * Discovering subatomic particles * Atoms - the Bohr model * Nucleons * Isotopes * Fluorescence and phosphorescence * Lasers * Atomic timekeeping * Cerenkov radiation * Nuclear physics * Types of radioactivity * Radioactive decay (series/curves) * Radiometric measurements * Fission energy * Fusion energy * Nuclear power * Nuclear weapons * The quantum revolution * Wave-particle duality * Electron microscopy * Schrodinger wave equation * Quantum mechanics * Copenhagen Interpretation * The uncertainty principle * Schrodinger''s cat * Many worlds and other quantum interpretations * Quantum numbers and the Pauli exclusion principle * Spin * Superfluids and superconductors * Quantum degeneracy * Entanglement * Quantum computing * The particle zoo (inc. antimatter) * The Standard Model * Quarks * Leptons (inc. neutrinos) * Detecting particles * Particle accelerators * Fundamental forces (inc.
gauge theories) * Quantum electrodynamics * Weak nuclear force * Strong nuclear force (inc. quantum chromodynamics) * The Higgs field * Symmetry * Theories of Everything * String theories and higher dimensions * Origins of relativity * Special relativity * Mass-energy equivalence * Minkowski spacetime * General relativity (inc. field equation solutions) * Gravitational lensing * Gravitational waves * Black holes and other singularities * Virtual particles & Hawking radiation * Wormholes & time machines * The large-scale Universe * The Big Bang theory * Building elements * Dark matter * Dark energy * The Anthropic principle * Glossary and Further Reading. g atomic structure * Chemical bonding * Chemical reactions * Ionization * Mass spectrometry * Intermolecular bonds (inc. solutions) * X-ray crystallography * Atomic force microscopy * Light from atoms * Black body radiation * Spectroscopy * Types of wave * Interference (inc. Huygens'' principle) * Sound waves * Harmonics * Doppler effect * Electromagnetic waves * Reflection (inc. Maupertuis'' principle) * Refraction * Diffraction * Wave scattering * Polarization * Wave modulation * Optical instruments * Telescopes * Microscopes * Interferometry * Holography * Infrared and ultraviolet * Radio and microwaves * X-rays and gamma rays * Waves and particles * Forms of energy * Temperature measurement * Heat transfer * Entropy * Laws of thermodynamics * Heat capacity * Changes of state * Heat engines * Static electricity * Current electricity * Electrical components * Circuits * Magnetism * Magnetic materials * Ampere and Coulomb''s laws * Electromagnetic induction * Alternating current * Electric motors * Generators * Piezoelectric effect * Semiconductors * Analogue and digital electronics * Electronic components * Superconductivity * Integrated circuits * Vacuum tubes * Discovering subatomic particles * Atoms - the Bohr model * Nucleons * Isotopes * Fluorescence and phosphorescence * Lasers * Atomic timekeeping * Cerenkov radiation * Nuclear physics * Types of radioactivity * Radioactive decay (series/curves) * Radiometric measurements * Fission energy * Fusion energy * Nuclear power * Nuclear weapons * The quantum revolution * Wave-particle duality * Electron microscopy * Schrodinger wave equation * Quantum mechanics * Copenhagen Interpretation * The uncertainty principle * Schrodinger''s cat * Many worlds and other quantum interpretations * Quantum numbers and the Pauli exclusion principle * Spin * Superfluids and superconductors * Quantum degeneracy * Entanglement * Quantum computing * The particle zoo (inc. antimatter) * The Standard Model * Quarks * Leptons (inc.
neutrinos) * Detecting particles * Particle accelerators * Fundamental forces (inc. gauge theories) * Quantum electrodynamics * Weak nuclear force * Strong nuclear force (inc. quantum chromodynamics) * The Higgs field * Symmetry * Theories of Everything * String theories and higher dimensions * Origins of relativity * Special relativity * Mass-energy equivalence * Minkowski spacetime * General relativity (inc. field equation solutions) * Gravitational lensing * Gravitational waves * Black holes and other singularities * Virtual particles & Hawking radiation * Wormholes & time machines * The large-scale Universe * The Big Bang theory * Building elements * Dark matter * Dark energy * The Anthropic principle * Glossary and Further Reading. Piezoelectric effect * Semiconductors * Analogue and digital electronics * Electronic components * Superconductivity * Integrated circuits * Vacuum tubes * Discovering subatomic particles * Atoms - the Bohr model * Nucleons * Isotopes * Fluorescence and phosphorescence * Lasers * Atomic timekeeping * Cerenkov radiation * Nuclear physics * Types of radioactivity * Radioactive decay (series/curves) * Radiometric measurements * Fission energy * Fusion energy * Nuclear power * Nuclear weapons * The quantum revolution * Wave-particle duality * Electron microscopy * Schrodinger wave equation * Quantum mechanics * Copenhagen Interpretation * The uncertainty principle * Schrodinger''s cat * Many worlds and other quantum interpretations * Quantum numbers and the Pauli exclusion principle * Spin * Superfluids and superconductors * Quantum degeneracy * Entanglement * Quantum computing * The particle zoo (inc. antimatter) * The Standard Model * Quarks * Leptons (inc. neutrinos) * Detecting particles * Particle accelerators * Fundamental forces (inc. gauge theories) * Quantum electrodynamics * Weak nuclear force * Strong nuclear force (inc.
quantum chromodynamics) * The Higgs field * Symmetry * Theories of Everything * String theories and higher dimensions * Origins of relativity * Special relativity * Mass-energy equivalence * Minkowski spacetime * General relativity (inc. field equation solutions) * Gravitational lensing * Gravitational waves * Black holes and other singularities * Virtual particles & Hawking radiation * Wormholes & time machines * The large-scale Universe * The Big Bang theory * Building elements * Dark matter * Dark energy * The Anthropic principle * Glossary and Further Reading. rs * Fundamental forces (inc. gauge theories) * Quantum electrodynamics * Weak nuclear force * Strong nuclear force (inc. quantum chromodynamics) * The Higgs field * Symmetry * Theories of Everything * String theories and higher dimensions * Origins of relativity * Special relativity * Mass-energy equivalence * Minkowski spacetime * General relativity (inc. field equation solutions) * Gravitational lensing * Gravitational waves * Black holes and other singularities * Virtual particles & Hawking radiation * Wormholes & time machines * The large-scale Universe * The Big Bang theory * Building elements * Dark matter * Dark energy * The Anthropic principle * Glossary and Further Reading. g atomic structure * Chemical bonding * Chemical reactions * Ionization * Mass spectrometry * Intermolecular bonds (inc. solutions) * X-ray crystallography * Atomic force microscopy * Light from atoms * Black body radiation * Spectroscopy * Types of wave * Interference (inc.
Huygens'' principle) * Sound waves * Harmonics * Doppler effect * Electromagnetic waves * Reflection (inc. Maupertuis'' principle) * Refraction * Diffraction * Wave scattering * Polarization * Wave modulation * Optical instruments * Telescopes * Microscopes * Interferometry * Holography * Infrared and ultraviolet * Radio and microwaves * X-rays and gamma rays * Waves and particles * Forms of energy * Temperature measurement * Heat transfer * Entropy * Laws of thermodynamics * Heat capacity * Changes of state * Heat engines * Static electricity * Current electricity * Electrical components * Circuits * Magnetism * Magnetic materials * Ampere and Coulomb''s laws * Electromagnetic induction * Alternating current * Electric motors * Generators * Piezoelectric effect * Semiconductors *.