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Tables of Contents for Theoretical Concepts in Physics
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Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Newton - the origin of Newton's law of gravitation
3. The origin of Maxwell's equations
4. How to rewrite the history of electromagnetism
5. Approaches to mechanics and dynamics
6. Simple thermodynamics
7. The kinetic theory of gases and the origin of statistical mechanics
8. Black body radiation up to 1895
9. 1895-1900: Planck and the spectrum of black body radiation
10. Planck's theory of black body radiation
11. Einstein and the quantisation of light
12. The story concluded - a further classical paper by Einstein
13. Special relativity - a study in invariance
14. An introduction to general relativity
15. Cosmology
16. Epilogue
References and further reading
Index.