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Evolving
a coherent understanding of physics. |
List of original chapters : full text
I: The rise of the mechanical view:
- The great mystery story
- The first clue
- Vectors
- The riddle of motion
- One clue remains
- Is heat a substance?
- The roller-coster
- The rate of exchange
- The philosophical background
- The kinetic theory of matter
II: The decline of the mechanical view:
- The two electric fluids
- The magnetic fluids
- The first serious difficulty
- The velocity of light
- Light as a substance
- The riddle of color
- That is a wave?
- The wave theory of light
- Longitudinal or transverse light waves?
- Ether and the mechanical view
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