What is the best way to make an offline copy?
Buying the paper version?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
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Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
#12I heard that Feynman's lectures weren't written entirely by Feynman, but were actually a collaboration between a bunch of physicists. Is that true? Where can I read about the history of this aspect? (It appears in the footnotes Feynman's Lectures on Computation, toward the end of the book. https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard... ) Reading through the lectures, you get the sense that it's super…
Feynman wrote the notes and delivered the lectures, based on existing source like textbooks. Then it got cleaned up into a book format, and I assume the chalkboard drawings were re-created and expanded.
Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
#13What is the best way to make an offline copy?
If it's all static HTML you should be able to wget the entire batch. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/downloading-entire-web-...
Or buy the paper version, as another said. They are available. They're not always cheap, though. I bought one or two volumes in the past as a general reference and now just learned they're here, gratis. C'est la vie.
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#14Thanks for the link to the downloadable versions. I have the Feynman Lectures loaded on an old iPod and I find them to be an amazing sleep aid. This is not a criticism, they are engaging enough to take my mind off of whatever is keeping me up while also being baffling enough that I fall asleep during the extended sections of blackboard writing sounds. My current set of files is not as good as the recently re-edited Caltech set but I don't want an active Internet device by my bed. Unfortunately they occasionally lead to somewhat stressful dreams of being in college again. It's a risk I am generally willing to take.
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#15Wow. This is a beautifully lightweight browser textbook. It has essentially everything I'd expect. Good math typesetting, customizable margin and font with simple javascript (I'm guessing I didn't check). Envisioning a responsive open source browser textbook is pretty easy, I'm glad someone with cachet like Caltech is providing a role model. Hopefully every important textbook will eventually be as accessible as this…
I think I'd still prefer a pdf. Doesn't require an internet connection and I can highlight, sketch, and scribble in the margins.
Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
#16Nice!
I bought the books decades ago and lost them, decades ago. :\
Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
#17Thanks for the link to the downloadable versions. I have the Feynman Lectures loaded on an old iPod and I find them to be an amazing sleep aid. This is not a criticism, they are engaging enough to take my mind off of whatever is keeping me up while also being baffling enough that I fall asleep during the extended sections of blackboard writing sounds. My current set of files is not as good as the recently re-edited C…
I do this with astronomy youtube channels. SEA... mmmmmm
Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
#18> The atoms [in water] are 1 or 2×10−8 cm in radius. Now 10−8 cm is called an angstrom (just as another name), so we say they are 1 or 2 angstroms (Å) in radius. Another way to remember their size is this: if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple.
This is one of my favourite Feynman analogies, right at the beginning of these lectures. He had such a remarkable ability to transpose concepts into more understandable forms.
Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
#19A big pile of previous discussions:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...