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Is there any benefit to a layman working their way through this? Or is it only relevant to studying/passing an exam?
What the heck, why not just make them available for download?
So stupid, this is some of the best information in the world and should be shared as widely as possible. An institution of higher learning shouldn't be concerned with tightly controlling how knowledge is disseminated outside of the institution. Especially old things from the 60's like this.
Thanks 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 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…
Standing on the shoulders of giants
> 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 lectur…
It’s on my bucket list to read through these lectures and grok them. Maybe it will be a retirement project? While we are talking about this, I feel like I need to brush up on my math. Does anyone know what level of math is required to work through these?
If you enjoy Feynman's lectures as much as I do (he taught freshman physics when I went to Caltech!) I highly recommend his armchair series, "Fun to Imagine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc He's sitting at home in Pasadena, talking about stuff that comes to mind. • Jiggling atoms who like to make friends with each other. • Where do trees come from? (It's not the dirt.) • Why don't your arms sink through…
>However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read, look at and listen to online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of the book The Feynman Lectures on Physics, its photos or tape recordings, for any purpose. What the heck, why not just make them available for download? So stupid, this is some of the best information in the world and should be shared as wide…
Usually licenses for the purpose of preventing unlicensed publication would just issue the publication with a non-distribution clause.