Science and Society

What is Science?.- Modes of Logic.- Modelling and Occam's Razor.- Theory, Model, and Law.- Defining Science.- Progress and Change in Science .- Answerable and Unanswerable in Science.- Why Does Science Exist?.- Doing Science.- The Beginnings of Science.- Studies.- Study Design.- Statistics and Studies.- Improving Study Reliability.- Pseudoscience.- Pseudoscience and Society.- Bad Science, Bad Scientists.- Case Studies.- Deconstructing Pseudoscience.- Energy and Entropy.- Definitions and Units.- Entropy.- Energy, Entropy, and Life.- Energy Flow in Society.- The Arrow of Time.- Electricity, Magnetism, and Light.- Magnetism and Force.- Electricity.- Faraday and Fields.- Maxwell and Light.- Vision and Light.- Measuring Light.- Spectral Lines.- Atom and Light.- The Electron.- Rutherford's Atom.- Blackbody Radiation.- The Photoelectric Effect.- Bohr's Atom.- The Quantum Atom.- Nuclear and Atomic Scales.- The Interaction of Light and Matter.- Climate.- Fossil Fuels.- Greenhouse Gases.- Energy Flow in the Environment.- Climate Modelling.- Implications of Climate Change.- Nuclear Energy and Radiation.- Into the Atom.- Nuclear Decay.- Nuclear Transmutation.- Health Effects of Radioactivity.- The Bomb.- Nuclear Power.- Nuclear Disasters.- Other Uses of Radioactivity.- Why Stars Shine.- A Finite Planet.- Population Growth.- Economic Growth.- Resource Management.- Beyond Carbon.- Electric Transport.- Outlook.- Space Travel.- Looking Out.

Eric Swanson is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published more than 100 papers on theoretical hadronic physics, condensed matter physics, and biophysics. Swanson is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a founder of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics. He has been a visiting scientist at Oxford University, TRIUMF in British Columbia, Jefferson Lab in Virginia, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.