Contents:Preface</BR>
Note to the Reader: Units and ApproximationsCHAPTER 1</BR>
Force and Pressure</BR>
Bed of Nails</BR>
Simple Thumbtack</BR>
Horsepower</BR>
Buoyancy in Air</BR>
How Dense Is the Ocean?</BR>
Washbowls and Coriolis Force</BR>
Points of Contact</BR>
Atmospheric Force</BR>
Weighing Your Car</BR>
Well and Water Tower</BR>
Pressure of Sunlight</BR>
Squashed Tennis Ball</BR>
Recoil</BR>
Fatal Impulse</BR>
Relative Gravitational Weakness</BR>
Strong Fields</BR>
Airplane LiftCHAPTER 2</BR>
Mechanics and Rotation</BR>
Terminal Velocity</BR>
The Unlikely Game of Baseball</BR>
Human Levers</BR>
Angular Momenta</BR>
The Twirling Skater</BR>
Rotating Water Pail</BR>
Grandfather Clock</BR>
Arm and Leg Pendulums</BR>
Precession of a Bicycle Wheel</BR>
Car Springs</BR>
Carousels and Rotors</BR>
Banked Road</BR>
Conical PendulumCHAPTER 3</BR>
Sound and Waves</BR>
Speed of Sound</BR>
Tsunamis and Ripples</BR>
Cold Flat Music</BR>
Thunder and Lightning</BR>
Wavelengths of Familiar Sounds</BR>
Scales and Chords</BR>
The Sound of Coke</BR>
The Sensitive Ear</BR>
of Visible Sight</BR>
v=c; hv= E</BR>
Trains and Doppler ShiftCHAPTER 4</BR>
Heat</BR>
Human Heaters</BR>
Negative Calorie Diet</BR>
The Moral of the Tail</BR>
Ice Skating</BR>
Thermal Expansion</BR>
Power Plant EfficiencyCHAPTER 5</BR>
Optics</BR>
Microscope Constraints</BR>
Binocular Size and Power</BR>
Seeing under Water</BR>
Candle PowerCHAPTER 6</BR>
Electricity</BR>
Electrostatic Charge on a Balloon</BR>
Capacitors</BR>
Capacitance of Spheres</BR>
Electric Field in a Wire</BR>
Electron Drift Speed</BR>
Unfamiliar Currents</BR>
High Cost of Battery Electricity</BR>
Magnet Strength</BR>
Matching Earth's B Field</BR>
Hanging Wire</BR>
Energy Storage in L and C</BR>
Jump-Rope Generator</BR>
Q of a Crystal Radio</BR>
E and B from a Lightbulb</BR>
Toaster Power</BR>
Magnetic Resonance ImagingCHAPTER 7</BR>
Earth</BR>
Radius of Earth</BR>
Geography and Weight</BR>
Height of Atmosphere</BR>
Depth of Earth's Gravity Field</BR>
Mountain Height</BR>
Earth Orbits</BR>
Escape Energy from Earth</BR>
Precession of the Equinoxes</BR>
Hole through the Earth</BR>
Slowing of the Earth's Rotation</BR>
Mass of Earth's Gravitational FieldCHAPTER 8</BR>
Astronomy</BR>
Diameter of Sun and Moon</BR>
Minimum Distance to Nearest Star</BR>
Pressure of Sunlight</BR>
How Many Photons to See a Faint Star?</BR>
Fueling the Sun</BR>
Age of the Elements</BR>
The 21 cm Line</BR>
The Prodigal SunCHAPTER 9</BR>
Atoms and Molecules</BR>
All atoms Are (About) the Same Size</BR>
Density if Air</BR>
Molecular Spacing in a Gas</BR>
Molar Energy</BR>
Latent Heat of Fusion and Vaporization</BR>
Surface Tension</BR>
Binding Force between Atoms</BR>
Atomic Spring ConstantCHAPTER 10</BR>
Particles and Quanta</BR>
Uncertainties of Photons and Mesons</BR>
Valence Electrons</BR>
Can Electrons Reside in the Nucleus?</BR>
Lucky Millikan</BR>
Nuclear Repulsion</BR>
Cyclotron</BR>
Synchrotron—Loss and Gain</BR>
Quantized Molecular Levels</BR>
Molecular Rotation Energy</BR>
