Introduction : the scientific method

A word about calculators

Apparatus needed for all experiments

Experiment 1 : Identified flying objects

Experiment 2 : Updated cannonballs

ch. 1. How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration

Experiment 3 : Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie

ch. 2. Why things move : forces and their effects

Experiment 4 : Dropsy

ch. 3. Sources of forces : the biggies in nature

Experiment 5 : Horizontal globalization

ch. 4. Round and round it goes, and where it stops : circular motion

Experiment 6 : Outgoing = incoming

ch. 5. The ultimate four-letter word : work

Experiment 7 : Follow the bouncing ball

ch. 6. Oops! collisions : impulse and linear momentum

Experiment 8 : You say you want a revolution?

ch. 7. Spinning wheels, got to go round

Experiment 9 : Mo' yo-yo

ch. 8. Force with a twist : torque

Experiment 10 : Teeter-totter

ch. 9. The strange case of the body that doesn't move : static equilibrium

Experiment 11 : Stretchy spring

ch. 10. Getting bent out of shape : elasticity

Experiment 12 : Gaze intently at the swinging yo-yo

Experiment 13 : Incredibly repetitive

ch. 11. Back and forth, back and forth : simple harmonic motion and waves

Experiment 14 : Magic spring tricks

ch. 12. Hey, listen, what's that sound?

Experiment 15 : Dive, dive

ch. 13. Gooey and gassy : fluids at their finest

Experiment 16 : Soda bottle crush

ch. 14. Even perfection has its flaws : the ideal gas

Experiment 17 : Kitchen physics

ch. 15. Some like it hot : thermodynamics

Experiment 18 : Static cling

ch. 16. Charge it : electricity at rest

Experiment 19 : Meter reader

ch. 17. Who let the charges out? : electric current

Experiment 20 : Resistance is futile

ch. 18. Silent struggles in the wires : resistance

Experiment 21 : Do-it-yourself magnet

ch. 19. Approach/avoidance : magnetism

Experiment 22 : Battery-less voltage

ch. 20. We are family : electricity from magnetism

Experiment 23 : All shook up

ch. 21. Big-time electricity : AC

Experiment 24 : LEDs lead the way

ch. 22. The light dawns : electromagnetic waves

Experiment 25 : Bent light

Experiment 26 : Polar opposites

ch. 23. Mirror, mirror on the wall : reflection and refraction of light

Experiment 27 : Spreading the beam

Experiment 28 : Compact rainbow

ch. 24. Light's strangest tricks : diffraction and interference

ch. 25. Einstein's prodigious efforts : special and general relativity

Experiment 29 : LASER, not phasor

ch. 26. : Matter's innards : atoms and quantum mechanics

Experiment 30 : Half-life is better than no life

ch. 27. Atoms' innards : nuclear physics

ch. 28. Down to the nitty-gritty : the standard model of the universe's smallest constituents

ch. 29. But wait, there's even more : the universe's biggest constituents

Afterword.