The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)(feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)(feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
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 the armrests of your chair?
• How do trains stay on the tracks?
It's an hour of fun science, and especially accessible for anyone who is curious about physics but doesn't enjoy all the equations.
anybody else here have a claim that they can correct Feynman?
https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/feynmans-advice-to-wm-s...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHZpIpAWJQ-Jy_CeCdXhMA
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.
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.
Usually licenses for the purpose of preventing unlicensed publication would just issue the publication with a non-distribution clause.
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 one is.
- MP4/Vorbis/MP3 downloads. https://archive.org/details/feynman-lectures-on-physics-audi...
- Web Player and Original Source. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flptapes.html
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27322636
A sibling comment mentions linear algebra. Vectors are introduced early on, and the chapter on tensor introduces matrices (eg second rank tensors). Multi variable calculus? I can't find where partial derivatives enter, but there's a chapter on vector calculus (to get ready for Maxwell). Really, it's all in there with no prior knowledge needed.
It's certainly a lot easier if you've seen the material before and read FLP as a second perspective. Hence why so many of the attendees were grad students and faculty. What it lacks as a teaching aide is the mind numbing exercises that all physics students do in their first year to practice using the mathematics. There's a reason the "University physics" books are doorstops.
Would that include books like Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics and Purcell & Morin's Electricity and Magnetism? Also interested in what people would use for Biology.
(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 superhuman to be able to write all of them. Once someone mentioned that it wasn't only Feynman doing the writing, it made a bit more sense.
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.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
No.
Feynman's early 1960's undergraduate lectures were tape-recorded and photographed only - they were never filmed or videotaped. But in 1964 Feynman delivered lectures at Cornell, called "Messenger Lectures," and these were filmed by the BBC.[1]
I bought the books decades ago and lost them, decades ago. :\
My dad was a physicist and we lived next door to a physicist from caltech so ... I met Feynman twice.
The whole two year physics sequence - the lectures where your entire class attended together, always in the same room, three times a week for two years, the homework sets, the sections, the weekly take-home quizzes - were a shared rite of passage, a central part of the Caltech experience for every student. It was difficult for some of us, but we had to persevere - it wasn't optional. A classmate called it 'intellectual boot camp'.