Includes glossary and index.

Introduction -- Measurement and Motion: Physics and the Everyday World -- Man in the measure of all things -- A prudent question is one half of wisdom -- All is number -- Bodies suffer no resistance but from the air -- A new machine for multiplying forces -- Motion will persist --- The most wonderful productions of the mechanical arts -- All action has a reaction -- The frame of the system of the world -- Oscillation is everywhere -- There is no destruction of force -- Energy can be neither created nor destroyed -- A new treatise on mechanics -- We must look to the heavens for the measure of the Earth -- Energy and Matter: Materials and Heat -- The first principles of the Universe -- As the extension, so the force -- The minute parts of matter are rapid in motion --Searching out the fire-secret -- Elastical power in the air -- The energy of the Universe is constant -- Heat can be a cause of motion -- The entropy of the Universe tends to a maximum -- The fluid and its vapour become one -- Colliding billiard balls in a box -- Fethcing some gold from the Sun -- Electricity and Magnetism: Two Forces Unite -- Wondrous forces -- The attraction of electricity -- Potential energy becomes palpable motion -- A tax on electrical energy -- Each metal has a certain power -- Electricity in motion -- The dominion of magnetic forces -- Light itself is an electromagnetic disturbance -- Man will imprison the power of the Sun -- A small step in the control of nature -- Animal electricity -- A totally unexpected scientific discovery -- An encyclopedia on the head of a pin -- A single pole, either north or south -- Sound and Light: The Properties of Waves -- There is geometry in the humming of the strings -- Light follows the path of least time -- A new visible world -- Light is a wave -- Light is never known to bend into the shadow -- The north and outh sides of the ray -- The trumpeters and the wave train -- These mysterious waves we cannot see -- The language of spectra is a true music of the spheres -- Seeing with sound -- A large fluctuating echo -- The Quantum World: Our Uncertain Universe -- The energy of light is distributed discontinuously is space -- They do not behave like anithing that you have ever seen -- A new idea of reality -- All is waves -- The cat is both alive and dead -- Spooky action at a distance -- The jewel of physics -- Collaboration between parallel universes -- Nuclear and Particle Physics: Inside the Atom -- Matter is not infinitely divisible -- A veritable transformation of matter -- The constitution of matter -- The bricks of which atoms are built up -- Little wisps of cloud -- Opposites can explode -- In search of atomic glue -- Dreadful amounts of energy -- A window on creation -- The hunt of the quark -- Identical nuclear particles do not always act alike -- Nature is absurd -- The mystery of the missing neutrinos -- I think we have it -- Where has all the antimatter gone? -- Stars get born and die -- Relativity and the Universe: Our Place in the Cosmos -- The windings of the heavenly bodies -- Earth is not the centre of the Universe -- No true times or true lengths -- The Sun as it was about eight minutes ago -- Does Oxford stop at this train? -- A union of space and time -- Gravity is equivalent to acceleration -- Why us the travelling twin younger? -- Evolution of the stars and life -- Where spacetime simply ends -- The frontier of the known Universe -- The future of the Universe -- The cosmic egg, exploding at the moment of creation -- Visible matter alone is not enough -- An unknown ingredient dominates the Universe -- Threads in a tapestry -- Ripples in spacetime

The Physics book. (2020). Dorling Kindersley Limited.