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Comment #47064411
You appear to be parroting the nonsense from Collier's "I hate Feynman" videos. Feynman gave the FLP lectures at Caltech, which were recorded and photographed, but at that time the…
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Comment #46979491
Let me begin by saying that I am a friend of Ralph Leighton, whom I have known for 27 years. I am also a friend of Feynman's children, and several of Feynman's friends and colleagu…
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Comment #45645287
Yang died very recently. He was 103 years old.
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Comment #45645274
I don't know what "notes" you are referring to, but if you mean the chapters of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the recordings and photos of Feynman's 2-year Caltech course on Int…
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Comment #44357652
Hello _wire_. I tried to find the "quotations" you have attributed to The Feynman Lectures on Physics. I looked in Volume I chapters 37 and 38 (which are the same as Volume III cha…
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Comment #43424727
Anyone who could write this has apparently no familiarity with The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which is chock full of quite difficult mathematics.
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Comment #43424703
Feynman's introductory physics course also entailed a lot of problem-solving and labs, in addition to the lectures that are the basis for The Feynman Lectures on Physics. If you go…
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Comment #42992652
You have to bear in mind that the lectures in The Feynman Lectures on Physics were only one third of an introductory physics course, the other parts being recitation sections (in w…
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Comment #42992572
The Feynman Lectures on Physics was used as the textbook for Caltech's introductory physics course for nearly two decades, and it is still used in some universities. I learned phys…
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Comment #42522968
Yuo. Collier claims Robert Leighton wrote The Feynman Lectures on Physics, but all he did was edit Feynman's lectures in Volume I, as she (or you) could ascertain by listening to t…
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Comment #42516743
Angela Collier, who made that video, if full of it.
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Comment #36028958
Thanks for buying my book. You're very welcome for the website. I don't know specifically to what plot Feynman was referring, but it may have been one he made himself.
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Comment #36023772
At the time my colleagues and I proposed creating an online edition of FLP, one could only read it in expensive printed editions or in (lousy-looking) pirated PDFs. It was not easy…
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Comment #36023427
The "2013" is the copyright date of the initial publication of the online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, but that edition (as well as the printed edition) and the Feyn…
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Comment #36023393
The lecture recordings were added to The Feynman Lectures Website in 2021. It was not easy to convince the publisher (Basic Books) who licenses the exclusive publication rights for…
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Comment #36023372
The original Feynman Lectures Website was feynmanlectures.info, which went online in 2006. The online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics was published there in 2013, and al…
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Comment #36023292
We are currently working on a 'reconstruction' of the first lecture recording, which we hope to publish at The Feynman Lectures Website later this year.
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Comment #36023283
The FLP lecture recordings posted at The Feynman Lectures website are "archival" recordings derived from the original 1/4" reel-to-reel tapes, which were digitized at high-resoluti…
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Comment #36022898
If you folks have any questions about the Feynman Lectures Website, the online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the current ("New Millennium") printed edition (or ePub o…
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Comment #16454651
The introductory physics course for which Feynman lectured in 1961-63 is part of Caltech's core curriculum, required of all undergraduate students. It was taken by the entire fresh…
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Comment #13376880
Thank you, packetslave!
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Comment #12291248
Some facts regarding this matter can be read here: http://www.feynmanlectures.info/popular_misconceptions_about...
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Comment #6854298
I am working on the conversion of Volume II from LaTeX to HTML. There are 8 chapters left to go. When they are done, and after I have spent some time testing and debugging Volume I…
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Comment #2297098
For a similar, but more complete, description (with figures), see "Feynman's Tips on Physics," Section 4-10, The Spinning Disk, and "The Feynman Lectures on Physics," Volume I, Sec…