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| Acknowledgments | p. 9 |
| Foreword | p. 11 |
| Introduction-The Scientific Method | p. 13 |
| Experiments | p. 19 |
| A Word About Calculators | p. 20 |
| Apparatus Needed for All Experiments | p. 21 |
| Identified Flying Objects | p. 22 |
| Updated Cannonballs | p. 24 |
| How Things Move-Position, Velocity, and Acceleration | p. 27 |
| Weight 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie | p. 33 |
| Why Things Move-Forces and Their Effects | p. 35 |
| Dropsy | p. 43 |
| Sources of Forces-The Biggies in Nature | p. 45 |
| Horizontal Globalization | p. 53 |
| Round and Round It Goes, and Where It Stops...Circular Motion | p. 55 |
| Outgoing = Incoming | p. 64 |
| The Ultimate Four-Letter Word-Work | p. 67 |
| Follow the Bouncing Ball | p. 73 |
| Oops! Collisions-Impulse and Linear Momentum | p. 75 |
| You Say You Want a Revolution? | p. 82 |
| Spinning Wheels, Got to Go Round | p. 83 |
| Mo' Yo-Yo | p. 92 |
| Force with a Twist-Torque | p. 95 |
| Teeter-Totter | p. 105 |
| The Strange Case of the Body That Doesn't Move-Static Equilibrium | p. 107 |
| Stretchy Spring | p. 113 |
| Getting Bent Out of Shape-Elasticity | p. 115 |
| Gaze Intently at the Swinging Yo-Yo | p. 119 |
| Incredibly Repetitive | p. 121 |
| Back and Forth, Back and Forth...Simple Harmonic Motion and Waves | p. 123 |
| Magic Spring Tricks | p. 130 |
| Hey, Listen, What's That Sound? | p. 131 |
| Dive, Dive | p. 144 |
| Gooey and Gassy-Fluids at Their Finest | p. 146 |
| Soda Bottle Crush | p. 159 |
| Even Perfection Has Its Flaws-The Ideal Gas | p. 161 |
| Kitchen Physics | p. 170 |
| Some Like It Hot-Thermodynamics | p. 171 |
| Static Cling | p. 190 |
| Charge It-Electricity at Rest | p. 191 |
| Meter Reader | p. 202 |
| Who Let the Charges Out?-Electric Current | p. 207 |
| Resistance Is Futile | p. 218 |
| Silent Struggles in the Wires-Resistance | p. 221 |
| Do-It-Yourself Magnet | p. 227 |
| Approach/Avoidance-Magnetism | p. 229 |
| Battery-less Voltage | p. 240 |
| We Are Family-Electricity from Magnetism | p. 241 |
| All Shook Up | p. 247 |
| Big-Time Electricity-AC | p. 251 |
| LEDs Lead the Way | p. 266 |
| The Light Dawns-Electromagnetic Waves | p. 267 |
| Bent Light | p. 274 |
| Polar Opposites | p. 276 |
| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall-Reflection and Refraction of Light | p. 277 |
| Spreading the Beam | p. 290 |
| Compact Rainbow | p. 292 |
| Light's Strangest Tricks-Diffraction and Interference | p. 293 |
| Einstein's Prodigious Efforts-Special and General Relativity | p. 299 |
| LASER, not Phasor | p. 311 |
| Matter's Innards-Atoms and Quantum Mechanics | p. 313 |
| Half-Life Is Better Than No Life | p. 322 |
| Atoms' Innards-Nuclear Physics | p. 323 |
| Down to the Nitty-Gritty-The Standard Model of the Universe's Smallest Constituents | p. 333 |
| But Wait, There's Even More-The Universe's Biggest Constituents | p. 343 |
| Afterword | p. 353 |
| Additional Resources | p. 355 |
| Endnotes and Credits | p. 355 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 365 |
| Index | p. 367 |
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