Physics 101

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The First Force
3. Chapter Two - Galileo’s Ball Drop
4. Chapter Three - Newton Writes the Universe
5. Chapter Four - The Machine View
6. Chapter Five - Heat, Steam, and Entropy
7. Chapter Six - Electric Dreams
8. Chapter Seven - Einstein Breaks the Clock
9. Chapter Eight - The Quantum Crack
10. Chapter Nine - The Uncertainty Principle
11. Chapter Ten - The Particle Zoo
12. Chapter Eleven - The Cosmos and the Quantum
13. Chapter Twelve - The Laws That Still Bend

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THE CHAIR YOU’RE sitting in should be disintegrating right now. The Earth should’ve flung itself into the sun. The atoms in your body should’ve collapsed into a singularity the moment you were born. But somehow, they didn’t. And that’s the mystery physics was built to solve. Why does the universe hold together? Why does anything move? What is a force? And who the hell looked at lightning and thought, “Let’s study that”? This book is the story of those questions. And the wild, messy, genius attempts to answer them. It starts with falling. Because gravity is the first law we all obey. Then it spins into fire, pressure, electricity, light, time, atoms, cats in boxes, and the strange...