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Index
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The First Law: Energy
Chapter 1 Nothing for Free The Conservation of Work
Chapter 2 Swinging, Falling, and Rolling The Initial Foundations of Energy
Chapter 3 Untangling the Mess Energy, Momentum, Force, and Matter
Chapter 4 The Missing Link Heat: The Final Piece in the Energy Puzzle
Nature’s Compensation: Entropy
Chapter 5 Thoughts of Heat Engines The Thermodynamic Origins of Entropy
Chapter 6 Dissipation The Relationship Between Heat and Work
Chapter 7 The Preferred Direction Entropy as Nature’s Signpost
Chapter 8 The Other Side of Entropy Entropy’s Connection to Matter and Atoms
The Pieces: Atoms
Chapter 9 Speculations of Atoms Thoughts of Existence Pave the Way for Atoms
Chapter 10 Two New Philosophies Rational Versus Spiritual View of Nature
Chapter 11 Realizing Atoms The Physical Foundations of the Atom
Chapter 12 Final Doubts to Rest The Atom as Physical Reality
Uncertainty: Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 13 Discrete Energy’s Devious Secret
Chapter 14 Light Quanta Particles and Waves: The Beginning
Chapter 15 The Quantum Atom Revisiting the Atom
Chapter 16 Quantum Mechanics Nature’s Lottery
Epilogue From Here to There
Bibliography
Index
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