CONTENTS 1
Lesson 1 MEASUREMENT 1
Reading Material:MEASUREMENTS 10
Lesson 2 TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT 18
Reading Material:TEMPERATURE AND LIFE 27
Lesson 3 VISCOSITY AND SURFACE TENSION 34
Reading Material:COHESION AND ADHESION 44
Lesson 4 INERTIAL SYSTEMS 49
Reading Material:FORCE AND MOTION:THE LAW OF INERTIA 59
Lesson 5 GALILEO AND THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD 65
Reading Material:NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION 76
Lesson 6 HEAT TRANSFER 85
Reading Material:TRANSFER OF HEAT BY CONVECTION, CONDUCTIONAND RADIATION 99
Lesson 7 WHAT IS HEAT? 106
Reading Material:MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT 119
Lesson 8 TYPES OF WAVES 127
Reading Material:WAVES 137
Lesson 9 SOUND AND ITS PROPERTIES 145
Reading Material:THE UNWANTED SOUNDS 156
Lesson 10 PROBLEMS OF THE JET AGE 165
Reading Material:SUPERSONIC FLIGHT 176
Lesson 11 THE STRANGE WORLD OF'SILENT' SOUND 183
Reading Material:PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF ULTRASONIC WAVES 196
Lesson 12 FROG LEGS AND OTHER THINGS 203
Reading Material:EIECTRICAL PHENOMENA 215
Lesson 13 MICHAEL FARADAY 224
Reading Material:ELECTRICITY FROM INDUCTION 240
Lesson 14 MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS AND AMPLIFIERS 247
Reading Material:ELECTROMAGNETIC OSCILLATIONS 260
Lesson 15 THE COMPLETE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM（Ⅰ） 268
Reading Material:THE COMPLETE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM（Ⅱ） 281
Lesson 16 COLOR MIXING:LIGHTS AND 287
PIGMENTS 287
Reading Material:COLOR MIXING 298
Lesson 17 THE WORK OF ALBERT EINSTEIN AND NIELS BOHR 304
Reading Material:FROM RELATIVITY TO UNCERTAINTY 318
Lesson 18 THE TRANSISTOR 329
Reading Material:MINIATURIZED DESIGN 340
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS 347
1．ARCHIMEDES'LAW OF HYDROSTATICS 347
2．SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 352
3．SOME FAMILIAR OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS 355
4．THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TRANSFORMER 360
5．ENERGY 363
6．MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION 367
7．UP,UP,AND AWAY 372
8．PRINTED CIRCUITS 379
9．RADAR 386
10．AMPLIFIER by Howard Bierman 394
11．EFFECTS OF INTERFERENCE,DIFFRACTION AND POLARIZATION 400
12．LIQUID CRYSTALS 408
13．THE COSMIC RAYS 413
14．NUCLEAR ENERGY 421
15．HALF LIFETIMES AND DATING BY 426
RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS 426
16．RADIOISOTOPES IN THE SERVICE OF MAN 433
17．ELEMENTARY PARTICLES 441
18．PLANCK'S QUANTUM HYPOTHESIS 447
19．ISAAC NEWTON by Albert Einstein（abridged） 451
20．CLASSICAL PHYSICS AND MODERN PHYSICS 458