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Have they finally updated the lectures to use SI units?
As far as I know, the Feynman Lectures have always used SI units.
I was the project lead on this, which involved converting the Feynman Lectures from LaTeX to HTML. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Update : Most of the questions center on cost. I've answered in more detail below, but the short version is simple: no off-the-shelf converter was remotely sufficient for our needs, so we had to write lots of custom software, and writing custom software is hard.
No questions but a BIG thank you
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As far as I know, the Feynman Lectures have always used SI units.
I just checked Chapter 4, and it has inches and ounces. I could be wrong, since I haven't read it, but I don't see why it would affect understanding of the ideas.
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Depends on when you look at it.
The average density of the universe is the same as 1 hydrogen atom / cubic meter. Pretty damn empty.
I was the project lead on this, which involved converting the Feynman Lectures from LaTeX to HTML. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Update : Most of the questions center on cost. I've answered in more detail below, but the short version is simple: no off-the-shelf converter was remotely sufficient for our needs, so we had to write lots of custom software, and writing custom software is hard.
Also... Microsoft Research announced on Wednesday that Mr. Gates, who purchased the rights to the videos privately from the Feynman estate, BBC and from Cornell University, in cooperation with Curtis Wong, a Microsoft researcher, has created a Web site that is intended to enhance the videos by annotating them with related digital content. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
Thanks for the link. I'm really glad he's made this available on line. And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight.
I got the following 403 Error, which is kind of amusing.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /moonlight/redirector.html on this server.
Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at www.go-mono.com Port 80Also... Microsoft Research announced on Wednesday that Mr. Gates, who purchased the rights to the videos privately from the Feynman estate, BBC and from Cornell University, in cooperation with Curtis Wong, a Microsoft researcher, has created a Web site that is intended to enhance the videos by annotating them with related digital content. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
There are a ton of Feynman lectures on this YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/FeynmanVideoLectures/videos although I'm unable to tell if they are authorized / legitimate. They've been up for 3 years, though, so presumably they would have been DMCA'd by now if they weren't.
I was the project lead on this, which involved converting the Feynman Lectures from LaTeX to HTML. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Update : Most of the questions center on cost. I've answered in more detail below, but the short version is simple: no off-the-shelf converter was remotely sufficient for our needs, so we had to write lots of custom software, and writing custom software is hard.
First of all a big thank you for the outstanding work! Does Caltech have any plans to release the LaTeX source? And would a PDF or EPUB be made available (free or otherwise)?
I was the project lead on this, which involved converting the Feynman Lectures from LaTeX to HTML. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Update : Most of the questions center on cost. I've answered in more detail below, but the short version is simple: no off-the-shelf converter was remotely sufficient for our needs, so we had to write lots of custom software, and writing custom software is hard.