The Physicists’ View of Nature, Part 1

1 Introduction: The Importance of the Physicists’ View of Nature for Everyone.- Why Is the Physicists’ View of Nature Important for Everyone?.- One The Development Of Classical Physics.- 2 The Beginnings of Classical Physics.- 3 The Foundations of the Newtonian Paradigm: the Laws of Motion.- 4 The Denouement: the Universal Gravity Law.- 5 Matter, Energy, Conservation Laws, and the Rise of Materialism.- Two From Being To Becoming.- 6 Thermodynamics and Its Laws.- 7 Progressivity and Energy Consumption.- 8 Energy and Environment.- 9 From Being to Becoming: Entropy, Life, and Chaos Theory.- 10 Heat Death, Hangups, and the Question of Design.- Three Waves, Fields, And Einstein’s Universe.- 11 The Motion Of Waves.- 12 Wave Interactions.- 13 Sound and Music and Light and Color.- 14 Electricity, Magnetism, Fields, and Waves.- 15 The Relativity of Time.- 16 The Relativity of Space and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation.- 17 The Universe.- 18 The World View of Classical Physics: Where Do We Go From Here?.