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The lectures were presented before undergraduate students at the california institute of technology caltech, during 19611963. I think the reason it doesnt work as a textbook is that every chapter is so deep that students would get sucked so far into every topic that they would never finish the course. Its a great resource for science enthusiasts, students, teachers basically everyone. From the new york times microsoft chairman bill gates believes that if he had been able to watch physicist richard feynman lecture on physics in 1964 his life might have played out differently. Richard feynman talking with a teaching assistant after the lecture on the dependence of amplitudes on time, robert leighton and matthew sands in background. I wrote a paper with the title the radiation theories of tomonaga.
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Carver mead, for his warm encouragement and generous financial support, without which this edition would have been impossible. The pleasure of finding things out matical methods to extract numbers from the physics. Timeless and collectible, the feynman lectures on physics are essential reading, not just for students of physics, but for anyone seeking an insightful introduction to the field from the inimitable richard p. Feynman is one of the most venerated american physicists of the late 20th century. Richard feynman a life of many paths uci physics and. Swimmers, air bubbles, submarines and airships are slowed down by the associated added mass force which is distinct.
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When it became clear that the results of their calculations agreed with feynman, i knew that i had been given a unique oppor tunity to bring the three theories together. As a child he was taught by his father to take independent viewpoints on things. It wasnt the assigned textbook, it was recommended reading. The whole thing was basically an experiment, richard feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 1552 pages and is available in hardcover format. Richard feynman s intellectual curiosity shines out from the pages of that book, as well as a constantly questioning, straighttalking attitude to life. Caltech and the feynman lectures website have joined forces to create an online edition of richard feynman s famous lectures on physics. Essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher, and more on. For his contributions to the development of quantum. In the 196263 academic year at caltech, richard feynman taught a course on gravitation for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
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