Includes index.

Contents: Physics, the fundamental science -- The Newtonian revolution: Describing motion -- Falling objects and projectile motion -- Newton's laws: explaining motion -- Circular motion, the planets and gravity -- Energy and oscillations -- Momentum and impulse -- Rotational motion of solid objects -- Fluids and heat: The behavior of fluids -- Temperature and heat -- Heat engines and the second law of thermodynamics -- Electricity and magnetism: electrostatic phenomena -- Electric circuits -- Magnets and electromagnetism -- Wave motion and optics: Making waves -- Light waves and color -- Light and image formation -- The atom and its nucleus: the structure of the atom -- The nucleus and nuclear energy -- Relatively and beyond: Relativity -- Beyond everyday phenomena --