From the Book - First Amer. hardcover edition.
Introduction. The scientific method
Apparatus needed for all experiments
Experiment 1. Identified flying objects
Experiment 2. Updated cannonballs
How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration
Experiment 3. Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie
Why things move : forces and their effects
Sources of forces : the biggies in nature
Experiment 5. Horizontal globalization
Round and round it goes, and where it stops
Experiment 6. Outgoing = incoming
The ultimate four-letter word : work
Experiment 7. Follow the bouncing ball
Oops! collisions : impulse and linear momentum
Experiment 8. You say you want a revolution?
Spinning wheels, got to go round
Force with a twist : torque
Experiment 10. Teeter-totter
The strange case of the body that doesn't move : static equilibrium
Experiment 11. Stretchy spring
Getting bent out of shape : elasticity
Experiment 12. Gaze intently at the swinging yo-yo
Experiment 13. Incredibly repetitive
Back and forth, back and forth
: simple harmonic motion and waves
Experiment 14. Magic spring tricks
Hey, listen, what's that sound?
Experiment 15. Dive, dive
Gooey and gassy : fluids at their finest
Experiment 16. Soda bottle crush
Even perfection has its flaws : the ideal gas
Experiment 17. Kitchen physics
Some like it hot : thermodynamics
Experiment 18. Static cling
Charge it : electricity at rest
Experiment 19. Meter reader
Who let the charges out? : electric current
Experiment 20. Resistance is futile
Silent struggles in the wires : resistance
Experiment 21. Do-it-yourself magnet
Approach/avoidance : magnetism
Experiment 22. Battery-less voltage
We are family : electricity from magnetism
Experiment 23. All shook up
Big-time electricity : AC
Experiment 24. LEDs lead the way
The light dawns : electromagnetic waves
Experiment 25. Bent light
Experiment 26. Polar opposites
Mirror, mirror on the wall : reflection and refraction of light
Experiment 27. Spreading the beam
Experiment 28. Compact rainbow
Light's strangest tricks : diffraction and interference
Einstein's prodigious efforts : special and general relativity
Experiment 29. LASER, not phasor
Matter's innards : atoms and quantum mechanics
Experiment 30. Half-life is better than no life
Atoms' innards : nuclear physics
Down to the nitty-gritty : the standard model of the universe's smallest constituents
But wait, there's even more : the universe's biggest constituents.