Physics Over Easy

Introduction: What Keeps Us Going?Physicists, and Other People;; Hard Boiled Eggs with Inertia:How It All Began - with Rolling Balls;; Eggs Bene-Bricked:What Keeps the Ball Rolling?;; Apple-Gravity Pancakes:Why Does an Apple Fall from a Tree?;; Cereal and Calories:But It Takes Energy to Keep Moving;; Hot Cakes with Energy: How Hot is It?;Putting Heat to Work;; French Toast: First Law: You Can't Win;Second Law: Nor Can You Break Even;; Cold Cuts:Go Fly a Kite!;Storing Electricity;; Blueberry Muffins: Electricity in Matter;a.c./d.c.;; Apple Fritters and Love: Magnetic Forces;Magnetic Fields; What Maxwell Wrought;; Eggs and Crisp Bacon: Making Waves;What Waves Can Do;; Oat Meal with Light Cream: What is Light?;How and What We See;It's a Colorful World!;; Lox and Bagels: What's the Speed of Light?;Is It Really Relative?;The Paradoxes of Relativity and Black Holes;; Farina: Does Anyone Believe in Quanta?;What About Atoms?;; Danish Pastry: What's a Wave Function?;Born and Heisenberg have the Answer;; Waffles: Atoms can be Fun;What Attracts Atoms to Each Other?;; O. J. Donuts, and Coffee: Surrounded by Fluids;We Depend on Solids;; Rice Krispies: Who's Afraid of Radioactivity?;What's Inside the Nucleus?;For Better or for Worse -Nuclear Energy;Our Nuclear Legacy;; Corn Fritters: A Mess of Particles;What, More Conservation Laws?;Quarks and More Quarks;The GUTS of Physics;; Breakfast at the Beach: Einstein Centennial;A Promising Nanotechnology;Quantum Entanglement;Quantum Computers;; Lunch at the Beach: Bose-Einstein Condensates;; Lunch at Venetian Bay: Our Energy Problems;Energy Wastes; The Good News About Nukes;; Breakfast at the Beach: How It All Began;Cosmic Microwave Background;Big Bang;Inflationary Universe;Probing the Microwave Background;;