Superstrings and Other Things

A GUIDE TO PHYSICS

Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS

Chapter 1. Physics: The Fundamental Science

PART II: THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS

Chapter 2. The Description of Motion

Chapter 3. The Laws of Mechanics: Newton's Laws of Motion

Chapter 4. Energy

Chapter 5. Conservation of Energy and Momentum

Chapter 6. Rotation and the Universal Law of Gravitation

PART III: THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER

Chapter 7. Atoms: Building Blocks of the Universe

Chapter 8. The Heart of the Atom: The Nucleus

Chapter 9. Fluids

PART IV: THERMODYNAMICS

Chapter 10. Heat and Temperature

Chapter 11. The Laws of Thermodynamics

PART V: ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

Chapter 12. Electricity

Chapter 13. Applied Electricity

Chapter 14. Electromagnetism

PART VI: WAVES

Chapter 15. Wave Motion

Chapter 16. Sound

Chapter 17. Optics

Chapter 18. The Nature of Light

PART VII: MODERN PHYSICS

Chapter 19. The Special Theory of Relativity

Chapter 20. The General Theory of Relativity

Chapter 23. Nuclear Physics

Chapter 24. Elementary Particles

Chapter 25. Superforce: Einstein's Dream