The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a physics textbook based on several lectures by Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner who is sometimes called "The Great Explainer". Lectures were presented before the undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), during 1961-1963. Co-authors of this book are Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands.
Feynman Lectures on Physics is probably the most popular physics book ever written. More than 1.5 million English copies have been sold; perhaps even more copies have been sold in a dozen foreign language editions. The 2013 review in Nature describes this book as having "simplicity, beauty, unity... served with enthusiasm and insight".
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Textbooks consist of three volumes. The first volume focuses on mechanics, radiation, and heat, including relativistic effects. The second volume covers mainly electromagnetism and matter. The third volume covers quantum mechanics; for example, it shows how a double slit experiment shows important features of quantum mechanics. The book also covers chapters on the relationship between mathematics and physics, and the relationship of physics with other sciences.
In 2013, Caltech in collaboration with The Feynman Lectures Website makes this book available for free, on the website.
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In 1960, Richard Feynman's research and discoveries in physics have resolved a number of disturbing inconsistencies in some fundamental theories. In particular, it was his work in quantum electrodynamics that he was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics. At the same time that Feynman is at the peak of his fame, the faculty of the California Institute of Technology is concerned about the quality of introductory courses for undergraduate students. It is thought that the course is burdened by ancient syllabi and interesting discoveries of recent years, much of which takes place at Caltech, not taught to the students.
Thus, it was decided to reconfigure the first physics course offered to students at Caltech, with the aim of generating more excitement in students. Feynman swiftly agreed to give the course, though only once. Aware of the fact that this will be a historic event, Caltech recorded each lecture and took photos of every image made on the board by Feynman.
Based on lectures and recorded recordings, the team of physicists and graduate students compiled a script that would become The Feynman Lectures on Physics . Although Feynman's most valuable technical contribution to the field of physics may have been in the field of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman Lectures is destined to be his most widely read.
The Feynman Lectures is considered one of the most advanced and comprehensive college-level courses for physics. Feynman himself stated in his original preface that he was "pessimistic" with regard to his success in reaching out to all his students. Feynman's lecture was written "to retain a very enthusiastic and somewhat savvy student interest coming out of high school and into Caltech". Feynman targets lectures to students who, "at the end of two years of our previous course, are very disappointed because really very few great, new, modern ideas are presented to them". As a result, some physics students find more valuable lectures after they gain a good understanding of physics by learning more traditional texts, and they are sometimes seen as more useful to teachers than to students.
While the two-year course (1961-1963) is still ongoing, rumors spread throughout the research community and teaching physics. In a special introduction to the 1989 edition, David Goodstein and Gerry Neugebauer claim that as time goes by, the attendance of registered undergraduate students drops dramatically but is matched by increasing compensation in the number of faculty and graduate students. Co-author Matthew Sands, in his memoir accompanying the 2005 edition, fought over this claim. Goodstein and Neugebauer also stated that, "it is the friends of [Feynman] - scientists, physicists, and professors - who will be the main beneficiaries of his remarkable achievement, which is nothing less than seeing physics through the fresh and dynamic perspectives of Richard Feynman ", and that" the prize is that he is an excellent teacher teacher ".
Addison-Wesley publishes a collection of exercises and problems to accompany the The Feynman Lectures on Physics . The problem set was first used in the academic year 1962-1963, and was organized by Robert B. Leighton. Some issues are complex and quite difficult to require an understanding of advanced topics, such as Kolmogorov's zero-one law. The original set of books and supplements contain a number of errors, some of which make the problem insoluble. Various errata are published, which are now available online.
Addison-Wesley was also released in CD format of all audio cassettes from lectures, over 103 hours with Richard Feynman, after remastering the sound and cleaning the recordings. For CD releases, the course order is reset from the original text. The publisher has released a table showing the correspondence between books and CDs.
In March 1964, Feynman appeared once more before the new physics class as a lecturer, but the record for this particular guest lecture was gone for several years. They are finally found, restored, and made available as Feynman's Lost Lecture: Planet Motion Around the Sun .
In 2005, Michael A. Gottlieb and Ralph Leighton co-authored Feynman Physics Tips, which included four Feynman student lectures not included in the main text (three on problem solving, one on inertial) guidance), a memoirs by Matthew Sands on the origins of Feynman Lectures on Physics, and exercises (with answers) assigned to students by Robert B. Leighton and Rochus Vogt in the Feynman Lecture course course at Caltech. Also released in 2005, is the "Definitive Edition" of lectures that included corrections on the original text.
A historical record of these famous books is given by Sands in his memoir article, "Capturing the Wisdom of Feynman", and another article "Memories of Feynman" by physicist T. A. Welton.
In an email September 13, 2013 to Feynman Lectures online forum member, Gottlieb announces the launch of a new website by Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website that offers "[A] free high-quality online edition" from the lecture text. To provide a device-independent reading experience, websites utilize modern web technologies such as HTML5, SVG, and MathJax to present text, images and equations of various sizes while maintaining display quality.
Contents
Volume I: Especially mechanics, radiation, and heat
- Preface: "When new ideas emerge, I will try to deduce them if they are deductions or to explain that it is a new idea... and that should not be proven." dd>
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Volume II: Especially electromagnetism and materials
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Volume III: Quantum Mechanics
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Abbreviated abbreviation
The six easily accessible chapters are then compiled into a book entitled Six Pieces Easily: The Essence of Physics Explained by the Most Brilliant Teacher . Six more chapters are in the book Six Pieces Not So Easy: Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time Einstein .
" Six Pieces Easily grew out of the need to bring to the broadest possible audience, a substantial but non-technical basis of physics based on the science of Richard Feynman... The general reader is fortunate that Feynman chose to present certain key topics in most qualitative terms without formal mathematics... "
Six Pieces Easily (1994)
Chapter:
- The Atom is moving
- Basic Physics
- The relationship of physics with other sciences
- Energy conservation
- Gravitational theory
- Quantum behavior
Six Un-So-Easy Pieces (1998)
Chapter:
- Vectors
- Symmetry in physical law
- Special relativity theory
- Energy and momentum relativistic
- Space time
- Curved space
The Very Best of The Feynman Lectures (Audio, 2005)
Chapter:
- Gravity Theory (Vol 1, Chapter 7)
- Curved Space (Vol II, Chapter 42)
- Electromagnetic (Vol II, Chapter 1)
- Probability (Volume I, Chapter 6)
- Particle Wavelength and Particle View (Vol. III, Chapter 2)
- Superconductivity (Vol III, Chapter 21)
Publishing information
- Feynman R, Leighton R, and Sands M. Feynman Lectures on Physics . 3 volume 1964, 1966. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 63-20717
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- ISBNÃ, 0-201-02115-3 (1970 set of three paperback volumes)
- ISBNÃ, 0-201-50064-7 (1989 set hardcover three volume warning)
- ISBNÃ, 0-8053-9045-6 (2006 definitive edition, 2nd printing, bold cover)
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- Feynman Tips About Physics: Problem Solving Supplement on Feynman Physics Lecture (hardcover) ISBNÃ, 0-8053-9063-4
- Six Easy Pieces (hardcover book with Feynman's original audio on CD) ISBN: 0-201-40896-1
- Six Pieces Easily (pocket book) ISBN: 0-201-40825-2
- Six Non-Very-Easy Pieces (paperback books with original Feynman audio on CD) ISBNÃ, 0-201-32841-0
- The Six Not-Easy Sheets (pocket book) ISBN: 0-201-32842-9
- Exercise for Feynman Lectures (pocket book) ISBNÃ, 2-35648-789-1 (not printed)
- Feynman R, Leighton R, and Sands M. "Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I" (online edition), Feynman Lectures Website, September 2013.
See also
- Berkeley Physics Course - another university-level physics series being developed and influential
- Physical Law Character - a series of Feynman lectures thick for scientists and non-scientists
- Tuva Project
References
External links
- Feynman Lecture at the Physics Institute of California Technology (Caltech) - HTML edition.
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics Feynman Lectures Web site - HTML edition and also exercises and other related materials.
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