Preface
1 How light behaves
1.1 First observations
1.2 The speed of light in vacuum
1.3 White light and colors
1.4 Slideness
1.5 Variations in intensity
1.6 The rainbow
2 Newton's particle theory
2.1 Theory building
2.2 The particle theory of refraction
2.3 Ramifications
2.4 A decisive test
2.5 Summary
2.6 Newton himself
3 A wave theory of light
3.1 Waves
3.2 Some general properties of waves
3.3 Light as a wave?
3.4 Refraction quantitatively
3.5 Waves in perspective
4 Interference
4.1 Interference defined
4.2 Two-source interference
4.3 Interference in light?
4.4 Measuring the wavelength of light
4.5 Color and wavelength
4.6 Thomas Young
4.7 The single slit
4.8 More interference phenomena
5 Electromagnetic waves
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6 The photon
7 The wave-particle duality
8 Does the speed off light depend on the motion of the source of light?
9 The principles of the Special Theory of Relativity
10 Time dilation and length contraction
11 E=mc2
12 The twins
13 The Lorentz transformation
14 Space and time
Glossary
Appendix
Index
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