Preface -- Relativity -- Special relativity -- Time dilation -- Doppler effect -- Length contraction -- Twin paradox -- AV-MATtricity and magnetism -- Relativistic momentum -- Mass and energy -- Energy and momentum -- General relativity -- Appendix 1 : The Lorentz transformation -- Appendix 2 : Spacetime -- Particle properties of waves -- AV-MATtromagnetic waves -- Blackbody radiation -- Photoelectric effect -- What is light? -- X-rays -- X-ray diffraction -- Compton effect -- Pair production -- Photons and gravity -- Wave properties of particles -- De Broglie waves -- Waves of what? -- Describing a wave -- Phase and group velocities -- Particle diffraction -- Particle in a box -- Uncertainty principle 1 -- Uncertainty principle 2 -- Applying the uncertainty principle.

Atomic structure -- The nuclear atom -- AV-MATtron orbits -- Atomic spectra -- The Bohr atom -- Energy levels and spectra -- Correspondence principle -- Nuclear motion -- Atomic excitation -- The laser -- Quantum mechanics -- Quantum mechanics -- The wave equation -- Schrödinger's equation : time-dependent form -- Linearity and superposition -- Expectation values -- Operators -- Schrödinger's equation : steady-state form -- Particle in a box -- Finite potential well -- Tunnel effect -- Harmonic oscillator -- Appendix : The tunnel effect -- Quantum theory of the hydrogen atom -- Schrödinger's equation for the hydrogen atom -- Separation of variables -- Quantum numbers -- Principal quantum number -- Orbital quantum number -- Magnetic quantum number -- AV-MATtron probability density -- Radiative transitions -- Selection rules -- Zeeman effect.

Many-electron atoms -- AV-MATtron spin -- Exclusion principle -- Symmetric and antisymmetric wave functions -- Periodic table -- Atomic structures -- Explaining the periodic table -- Spin-orbit coupling -- Total angular momentum -- X-ray spectra -- Appendix : Atomic spectra -- Molecules -- The molecular bond -- AV-MATtron sharing -- The H₂[superscript +] molecular ion -- The hydrogen molecule -- Complex molecules -- Rotational energy levels -- Vibrational energy levels -- AV-MATtronic spectra of molecules -- Statistical mechanics -- Statistical distributions -- Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics -- Molecular energies in an ideal gas -- Quantum statistics -- Rayleigh-Jeans formula -- Planck radiation law -- Einstein's approach -- Specific heats of solids -- Free electrons in a metal -- AV-MATtron-energy distribution -- Dying stars.

The solid state -- Crystalline and amorphous solids -- Ionic crystals -- Covalent crystals -- Van der Waals bond -- Metallic bond -- Band theory of solids -- Semiconductor devices -- Energy bands : alternative analysis -- Superconductivity -- Bound electron pairs -- Nuclear structure -- Nuclear composition -- Some nuclear properties -- Stable nuclei -- Binding energy -- Liquid-drop model -- Shell model -- Meson theory of nuclear forces -- Nuclear transformations -- Radioactive decay -- Half-life -- Radioactive series -- Alpha decay -- Beta decay-- Gamma decay -- Cross section -- Nuclear reactions -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear reactors -- Nuclear fusion in stars -- Fusion reactors.

Elementary particles -- Interactions and particles -- Leptons -- Hadrons -- Elementary particle quantum numbers -- Quarks -- Field bosons -- The standard model and beyond -- History of the universe -- The future -- Appendix : Atomic masses -- Answers to odd-numbered exercises -- For further study -- Credits -- Index.