Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Complete Set v. 1-3 by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, Addison Wesley, 1998. ISBN:0201021153
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"I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never
accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me
where I don't have to teach. Never."
- Richard Feynman
This is the complete set of the Feynman Lectures on Physics given by Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman at the California Institute of Technology to all students who needed knowledge of physics beyond school level. The Feynman Lectures on Physics were brought to publication through careful editing by his colleagues Leighton and Sands.
Feynman was a great researcher and teacher who had no equal in his passion for physics, and he shows it to the full in the Feynman Lectures on Physics. The first few lectures discuss physics as a whole and how it relates to the other sciences, Science and philosophy students are fortunate in having these lectures, which remain an unequalled introduction to physics at a university level.
Feynman's lectures on physics - complete
Some Feynman Lectures on Physics have been released in best-selling popular physics books (e.g. Six Easy Pieces); but every lecture is worth reading, and there are over a hundred in this complete set.
One of the better aspects of the complete set is the explanation of the mathematics needed to develop the equations of physics. You can get to understood the mathematics through Feynman's brilliant explanations, rather than having to suffer an inferior school textbook. (See the link on the left to see what Feynman thinks about school textbooks of mathematics!) In one lecture he gives you the calculus by showing exactly how differentiation and integration work in the world of Newtonian mechanics. You are not beset with excess mathematical formalism, just shown how mathematics applies to the physical world. After that any fear of mathematics should be defeated.
From the basics of mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism; through relativity and up to a superb account of "orthodox" quantum mechanics, the Feynman Lectures on Physics lead the physics student to a base camp for an assault on the heights of physics research. Alternatively, Feynman gives other scientists a solid physics backbone, and general readers a joyous account at a level above the average popular science pot-boiler.
Feynman's lectures on physics have over 100 reviews on Amazon and Amazon UK, most of them extremely positive. For anyone interested in learning physics at a university level, they are a must read.
"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
- R. Feynman
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- The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands