by Robert K Logan (University of Toronto, Canada)

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Chapter 1: To My Readers (42k)

This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the arts and society. It combines physics, literature, history and philosophy from the dawn of human life to the 21st century. It will also be of interest to the general reader.

• The Origins of Physics
• Physics of the Ancient Greek Era
• Poetry Influenced by the Scientific Revolution
• The Concept of Energy
• Thermodynamics and the Atomic and Molecular Structure of Matter
• The General Theory of Relativity
• The Structure of the Atom
• Wave Mechanics
• Quantum Electrodynamics
• Elementary Particles, Quarks and Quantum Chromodynamics
• Cosmology and the Universe: The Big Bang, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• and other papers