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PHYSICS: AN INTRODUCTION
The physical universe is enormously complex in detail. Every day, each of us observes a great variety of objects and phenomena. And over the centuries, the curiosity of the human race has led us to collectively to explore and catalog a wealth of information vastly beyond the capacity of any single person to assimilate. From the flight of the birds to colors of flowers, from lightning to gravity, from quarks to clusters of galaxies, from the flow of time to the mystery of the creation of the universe, we have asked questions and assembled huge arrays of facts. And in the face of all these details, we have discovered that a surprisingly small and unified set of physical laws can explain what we observe. As humans, we make generalizations and seek order. We have found that nature is remarkably cooperative—it exhibits the underlying order of simplicity we so value. It is the underlying order of nature that make science in general, and physics in particular so enjoyable to study. The unifying aspect of physical laws and the basic simplicity of nature from the underlying themes of this text.
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