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Tables of Contents for Everything You Need to Know About Physics
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WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN
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WHY DOES THE SUN ALWAYS SET IN THE WEST?
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WHAT IS PHYSICS?
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WHAT IS HARD?
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WHAT IF PHYSICS WERE SIMPLE?
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YOU GOT A PROBLEM?
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Albert Einstein Explains How to Think About Thinking
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GALILEO'S SCIENTIFIC METHOD UNVEILED
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How Carl Sagan Separated the Scientific Truth from the Bull
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HOW TO TALK IN PHYSICS
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English-to-Physics Dictionary
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PHYSICS ACROSS THREE TIME ZONES
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Physics Timeline Explained
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Two THOUSAND YEARS OF WRONG THINKING IN PHYSICS
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The Way Things Weren't
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ARISTARCHUS AND ARISTOTLE
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Missing the Boat with Aristotle
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PTOLEMY WHAT YOU THINK
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ARISTARCHUS GETS VINDICATED AND PTOLEMY GETS A KICK IN THE PBUTT
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LET THE CLASSICAL PHYSICS REVOLUTION BEGIN
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GALILEO DEVELOPS THE FIRST ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE
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SCIENCE THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET
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GALILEO TAKES ON THE CHURCH... AND PUBLIC OPINION
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GALILEO TAKES ON ARISTOTLE
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"WHAT IF PHYSICS WERE DIFFERENT?"
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GALILEO STARTS SMALL
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GALILEO'S NEXT PROBLEM...
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GALILEO AS SUPERMAN
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BUT GALILEO DOESN'T COMPLETE THE CIRCLE
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KEPLER IS LOYAL TO THE CHURCH BUT SUPPORTS GALILEO, TOO
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DESCARTES ADDS HIS TWO CENTS AND FINALLY GETS AHEAD OF THE HORSE
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NEWTON WINS THE GLORY
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"SOLAR" SYSTEM? WHAT A CONCEPT!
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NEWTON STEALS MORE IDEAS FROM GALILEO
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HOW TO THINK LIKE ISAAC NEWTON
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NEWTON
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Phenomenon, Phenomena
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GRAVITY... AS YOU'VE NEVER KNOWN HER
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The Ultimate Gravity Proof
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The Other Ultimate Gravity Proof
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The Final Ultimate Gravity Proof
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MARILYN, ELVIS, AND ISAAC?
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Three Things Isaac Newton and a First Lady Have in Common
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NEW STUDY SHOWS IT'S NOT JUST CRIMINALS WHO HATE NEWTON
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MAYBE IT'S JUST A SIGN OF THE TIMES
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KEEPING THE PLANETS IN LINE
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ELLIPTICALLY SPEAKING
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DISTANCE (Divided by) TIME = SPEED
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A MATTER OF GRAVITY
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GRAVITY'S NOT THE ONLY FORCE
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Do-It-Yourself Gravity
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GREAT STRIDES IN PHYSICS
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CLASSICAL MECHANICS
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Alternative Energy Source?
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An Analogy to Drool Over
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ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
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Four Things Ben Franklin Never Knew About Electricity
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HEAT
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Gas, Liquid, or Solid?
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SOUND
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Catch a Wave! Eleven Things Your Local Surfer Can Teach You About Physics
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LIGHT
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...THE END OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
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WHAT'S AN ATOM?
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ERNEST RUTHERFORD DISCOVERS THE NUCLEUS
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THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM THEORY
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And Let's Not Forget the Ether Question
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ALBERT EINSTEIN MOUNTS A SIDE ATTACK ON NEWTON AND CLASSICAL PHYSICS
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Love Your Underachiever
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Or Did Albert Have a Master Plan?
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EINSTEIN HAS A GOOD YEAR
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Al Has an Even Better Year... While Taking a Road Trip 42 Years After He Died
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E=MC^2
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How Albert Einstein Tricked the Teacher
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"ISN'T THAT SPECIAL?"
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"WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?"
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FROM "HOW COME ...?" TO "WHAT IF... ?"
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NOW IT'S TIME FOR AN EINSTEIN ANECDOTE
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"WHAT DID YOU SEE AND WHEN DID YOU SEE IT?"
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Faster than a Speeding Gedanken...
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THE BOTTOM LINE ON EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL RELATIVITY
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"THIS IS EINSTEIN TO MISSION CONTROL"
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SPACE AND TIME
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My Time Isn't Your Time
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THE EINSTEIN ADDENDUM
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Heads or Tails?
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"WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, ALFIE?"
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Yikes! Light Bends! Space Is Warped!
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"GO STRAIGHT, YOUNG MAN"
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WHEW! THAT'S A RELIEF--EVEN EINSTEIN COULD FAIL!
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CONTRAST WITH A THEORY CALLED CHAOS
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BACK TO THE QUANTUM HIGHWAY
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A Technical Physics Term: "Weird"
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TEN RANDOM CLUES ABOUT QUANTUM PHYSICS THAT WON'T HELP YOU UNDERSTAND IT AT ALL
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But What About Schrodinger's Cat?
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And Einstein's Cat...
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Your Favorite Physicists Trade Barbs
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HOW TO MAKE A STARTLING NEW DISCOVERY IN PHYSICS
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How to Succeed in Physics
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ARE GREAT PHYSICISTS BORN OR MADE?
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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HOW TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE...
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... AND WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU'VE WON IT
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BEST-SELLING AUTHORS AS PHYSICISTS
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A Few Final Words
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