Special emphasis is given to the development of the objective, materialist, and deterministic worldview of classical physics. Finally, some of the problems with the worldview of classical physics are discussed and a preview of quantum physics is given.

1 Introduction: The Importance of the Physicists’ View of Nature for Everyone.- Why Is the Physicists’ View of Nature Important for Everyone?.- One The Development Of Classical Physics.- 2 The Beginnings of Classical Physics.- 3 The Foundations of the Newtonian Paradigm: the Laws of Motion.- 4 The Denouement: the Universal Gravity Law.- 5 Matter, Energy, Conservation Laws, and the Rise of Materialism.- Two From Being To Becoming.- 6 Thermodynamics and Its Laws.- 7 Progressivity and Energy Consumption.- 8 Energy and Environment.- 9 From Being to Becoming: Entropy, Life, and Chaos Theory.- 10 Heat Death, Hangups, and the Question of Design.- Three Waves, Fields, And Einstein’s Universe.- 11 The Motion Of Waves.- 12 Wave Interactions.- 13 Sound and Music and Light and Color.- 14 Electricity, Magnetism, Fields, and Waves.- 15 The Relativity of Time.- 16 The Relativity of Space and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation.- 17 The Universe.- 18 The World View of Classical Physics: Where Do We Go From Here?.

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