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Is this worth reading for someone without a particular need to understand physics in depth? What I mean is if I take the time to read these will I learn anything useful to someone not pursuing a career in physics or related field?
For someone just curious about modern physics, without any specialized knowledge or advanced mathematical skill, it might be overwhelming.
Is this worth reading for someone without a particular need to understand physics in depth? What I mean is if I take the time to read these will I learn anything useful to someone not pursuing a career in physics or related field?
As he opens in QED, you won't be able to solve heavy physics problems analytically in a short period of time, but with a little effort, you'll certainly be able to qualitatively understand the situation. And there's quite a lot of beauty to have there, even without heavy math (but there will be math!)
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If you're reading it "on line" you've already downloaded it.
Yeah, but you can't put it easily on your tablet and read it offline while sitting in the park ;-) Still liking it a lot.
Feynman lectures on QED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvl6TBGEoO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjdbbnWsdis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF25Lwt73fg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtK6FdTg9HU
I have to disable safety mode to watch these? WTF?
every now and then i go into the library and read a chapter out of my hardcover set of these. my kids do the "geeez dad" thing when i make them sit with me and look at them. classics.. to be sure.... edit: i almost feel like these shouldn't be something that gets digitized.....this knowledge and its presentation belongs in a tactile medium...
What one finds 'classical' is highly relative: remember Socrates famously despised books as a degrading and pernicious medium, for one [1].
Is this worth reading for someone without a particular need to understand physics in depth? What I mean is if I take the time to read these will I learn anything useful to someone not pursuing a career in physics or related field?
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I have to disable safety mode to watch these? WTF?
I don't know what "safety mode" is, but I didn't need to disable anything to watch the videos.
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From the landing page: "However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics for any purpose."
They don't know what the word "download" means. This statement is nonsense.
It generally does not include temporary transfer of small parts of the document for immediate reading, except when the focus of the discussion is about the underlying mechanics of the transfer.
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They don't know what the word "download" means. This statement is nonsense.
"Download", as used in practice on the internet when referring to documents generally means copying the whole thing to your computer such that it can be used there without further internet access. It generally does not include temporary transfer of small parts of the document for immediate reading, except when the focus of the discussion is about the underlying mechanics of the transfer.
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Yeah, but you can't put it easily on your tablet and read it offline while sitting in the park ;-) Still liking it a lot.
That's what I was wondering about. You'd be saving the lectures, not downloading them, if you did that. The license needs some clarity.