Machine generated contents note: 1.Exploring the Nature of Matter -- The Atomic Nature of Matter -- Carbon's Intriguing Paradox -- The Difference between Pure Substances and Mixtures -- Scientific Units -- Ordinary Matter versus Dark Matter -- Hunting Dark Matter with the Hubble Space Telescope -- States of Matter -- 2.The Origin of Matter -- The Big Bang -- Mass-Energy -- How Hydrogen and Helium Formed in the Ancient Inferno -- Fundamental Forces in Nature -- People Are Made of Stardust -- 3.The Search for Substance -- Materials and the Rise of Man -- Metal of Cyprus -- Early Views of Matter: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire -- Alchemy -- Steam and the Industrial Revolution -- 4.Quantifying Matter during the Scientific Revolution -- An Overview of the Scientific Revolution -- The Scientific Method -- The Mechanics of the Universe -- Blind Alleys: Phlogiston and Caloric Theory -- Concepts of Density, Pressure, and Temperature -- Otto von Guericke's Amazing Experiment -- Elasticity of Matter -- Rankine---The Other Absolute Temperature -- Lavoisier and the Rise of Modern Chemistry -- Dalton Revives Interest in the Atomic Nature of Matter -- Avogadro's Bold Hypothesis -- 5.Understanding Matter's Electromagnetic Properties -- Magnetism and the Mysteries of the Lodestone -- Discovering Electricity: From Ancient Greece to Colonial America -- Count Alessandro Volta -- Electricity and Living Things -- Quantifying the Electric Nature of Matter -- Michael Faraday's Revolution -- Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory -- Sir Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson Discovers the Electron -- The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- 6.Periodic Table of the Elements -- New Chemical Elements Keep Showing Up -- Searching for a Periodic Law in Chemistry -- Mendeleev's Periodic Law -- Modern Periodic Table of Elements -- Making Ununtrium and Ununpentium -- Chemical Bonds -- 7.Discovering the Radioactive Nature of Matter -- X-rays Lead the Way -- X-rays and Materials Science -- How X-rays Help Unlock Matter's Secrets -- X-rays and Quantum Mechanics -- The Discovery of Radioactivity -- Marie Curie -- Measuring the Radioactivity of Matter -- Matter Consists of Isotopes -- Tracer Principle -- Aston's Mass Spectrometer -- 8.Exploring the Atomic Nucleus -- Ernest Rutherford---Father of the Atomic Nucleus -- The Bohr Model of the Atom -- Chadwick Discovers the Neutron -- Segre and the First Artificial Element -- The Discovery of Nuclear Fission -- Nuclear Fission -- Dawn of the Nuclear Age -- 9.Contemporary View of Matter -- Intriguing World of Quantum Mechanics -- Taking a Really Close-up Look at Matter -- Photoelectric Effect -- Rise of Quantum Mechanics -- Accelerators -- Lawrence's Amazing Laboratories -- The Nuclear Particle Zoo -- The Standard Model -- 10.Manipulating Matter Atom by Atom -- Integrated Circuit (IC) -- Thinking Small -- National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) -- Nanomedicine -- Very Special Microscopes -- Buckyballs -- The Promise of Nanotechnology -- 11.Conclusion.
