Prologue: Things we feel --
Pushes and pulls : sources of forces --
Gravitation : the heavy force --
Magnetism : telephones and tricky dogs --
Friction : house slippers and finger prisons --
Fractious forces : shaking and sliding --
Lever, lever, cantilever : a single-handed force --
Forces, forces everywhere : getting dressed and going out --
Moments of inertia : mass transit and the transit of masses --
Forceful illusions : schools and spools --
From physics to the physical --
Forces on inclined planes : unlevel playing fields --
Stretching and squeezing : springs and packaging --
A round cake in a square box : and a sagging triangle of pie --
Deployable structures : tapes measure --
Anthropomorphic models : from caryatids to avatars --
Visible and invisible hands : wind, warp, and woe --
Overarching problems : helping hands --
Pyramids, obelisks, and asparagus : ramping up the force --
Moving with the planet : feeling the earth quake --
Forces felt and hears : precursors to an end --
Epilogue: A forceful end.
