Contents -- Chapter 1 To My Readers -- Chapter 2 The Origin of Physics -- Chapter 3 Ancient Science of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China -- Mesopotamian Writing and Science -- Egyptian Writing and Science -- Chinese Science -- Chapter 4 Physics of the Ancient Greek Era -- Chapter 5 The Roots of the Scientific Revolution -- Hindu and Buddhist Mathematics, the Invention of Zero and the Place Number System -- Islamic Medieval Science -- Medieval European Science -- Chapter 6 Mechanics, Planetary Motion and the Modern Science Revolution -- The Copernican Revolution -- Tycho Brahe's Contribution -- The Contribution of Galileo Galilei -- Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion -- Origin of the Concept of Gravity -- Newton's Revolutionary Mechanics -- Chapter 7 Poetry Influenced by the Scientific Revolution -- Chapter 8 The Concept of the Atom, the Atomic Structure of Matter and the Origin of Chemistry -- Chapter 9 The Concept of Energy -- Chapter 10 Thermodynamics and the Atomic and Molecular Structure of Matter -- Chapter 11 Electricity and Magnetism -- Chapter 12 Electromagnetic Radiation and Wave Behaviour -- Chapter 13 Prelude to Relativity -- Chapter 14 The Special Theory of Relativity -- Chapter 15 The General Theory of Relativity -- Chapter 16 Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the Impact of the Theory of Relativity -- Chapter 17 The Structure of the Atom -- Chapter 18 The Quantization of Energy -- Chapter 19 Bohr's Atom -- Chapter 20 Wave Mechanics -- Wave Packets -- Barrier Penetration -- Chapter 21 Philosophical Implications of Quantum Mechanics -- Chapter 22 Quantum Electrodynamics -- Chapter 23 The Nucleus and the Strong Interaction -- The Nuclear Force -- Nuclear Binding Energy -- Chapter 24 Elementary Particles, Quarks and Quantum Chromodynamics -- The Nuclear Force or the Strong Interaction -- Quarks -- The Weak Interaction.

Summing up the Interactions of Elementary Particles -- Chapter 25 Cosmology and the Universe: The Big Bang, Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- Images of the Universe -- The Expanding Universe -- Cosmological Speculations -- Cosmological Implications of General Relativity -- The Big Bang Theory -- Genesis -- The Hadron Era -- The Lepton Era -- The Radiation Era -- The Stellar Era -- Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe -- Dark Matter and the Lumpiness of the Universe -- Chapter 26 Clusters, Galaxies, Black Holes and Stars -- The Super Structure of the Lumpy Universe -- The Milky Way Galaxy -- The Local Group -- Galaxies -- Active Galaxies -- Stars -- Star Formation -- Protostars -- Main Sequence Stars -- The Sun -- The Death of Stars -- Variable Stars -- Red Giants -- Novae -- White Dwarfs -- Supernovae, Neutron Stars And Pulsars -- Black Holes -- Chapter 27 The Solar System and the Planet Earth -- Mercury -- Venus -- The Earth -- The Moon -- Mars -- Jupiter -- Saturn -- Uranus -- Neptune -- The Dwarf Planets -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Centaurs -- Meteors, Dust and Gas -- Exoplanets or Extrasolar Planets -- The Earth -- The Age of the Earth -- The Structure of the Earth -- The Earth's Magnetic Field -- Origin of the Separation of the Core, Mantle and Crust -- Oceans -- Atmosphere -- Greenhouse Effect -- Chapter 28 Non-Linear Systems, Chaos, Complexity and Emergence -- A Comparison of Material and Non-Material Emergence -- Conclusion -- The Fractal Structure of the Universe: An Epilogue -- Chapter 29 Classroom Discussions, Activities and Assignments -- Bibliography.