- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books (Mar 16 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0465023924
- ISBN-13: 978-0465023929
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 12.5 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
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This book reprints the six easiest chapters from Feynman's celebrated Lectures on Physics (LJ 12/15/63), which the Nobel Prize-winning scientist delivered from 1961 to 1963 at the California Institute of Technology. Intended for as wide an audience as possible, these chapters are primarily qualitative in nature, with a minimum of formal mathematics. They discuss atoms, basic physics, the relation of physics to other sciences, the conservation of energy, gravitation, and quantum behavior. While this informative work provides a relevant historical perspective on the essentials of physics, the result is somewhat superficial. Nonetheless, because Lectures on Physics is out of print and because the information is still relevant, reprinting these specific chapters was probably a realistic move. The material will be readily understood by scholars, physics students, and informed lay readers. Recommended for academic and public libraries. (Audio tape and CD packages are also available.)-Donald G. Frank, Harvard Univ. Lib., Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a publishing first. This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard P. Feynman’s landmark work, Lectures on Physics—specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader—with the actual recordings of the late, great physicist delivering the lectures on which the chapters are based. Nobel Laureate Feynman gave these lectures just once, to a group of Caltech undergraduates in 1961 and 1962, and these newly released recordings allow you to experience one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest minds—as if you were right there in the classroom.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Great Introduction to Physics,
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This review is from: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials Of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
I love reading Feynman. I am not going to write a long review of this book. If you are interested enough in physics to be at this page, then reading this book is a no brainer. I will say that I read QED first, and that is Feynman's masterpiece. This work suffers by comparison only in that he is addressing underclassman and trying to get them interested in the big picture, whereas QED is the big picture. The great thing about this book is its conversational tone. You can almost imagine yourself in a classroom headed by the most brilliant physics teacher or our time. That's worth something, I'd say. Enjoy.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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What's the meaning of this book?,
By Leonardo Motta (Hanover, NH US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials Of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
This is a collection of six chapters taken from the masterpiece "Lectures on Physics" by Feynman, selected by Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands. Thus if you have at least the Vol. 1 of "Lectures on Physics" this book is useless for you. If you're looking forward an introduction to Physics or something like that, this book also is not going to be useful since the original "Lectures on Physics" was wrote to be a Physics course for CalTech. The author didn't wrote these essays to be published isolated from the rest of the original and complete "Lectures on Physics"; Leighton and Sands just pick them up and released it this way for some weird purpose, since, as I said, the idea of the author was not to release these essays separately. I recommend that you acquire the full "Lectures on Physics" if you're interested in fiding lectures on basic Physics by Feynman.The author was well intentioned when he developed the "Lectures on Physics" etc., but I don't think the editors were when they released this book. What is the meaning of it? For someone that wants lectures on physics by Feynman should look for the complete work, and someone that is interested in an introduction to it cannot take this one since it's very incomplete for this purpose (remember that since these are chapters from the full work, each of them is about just one single discussion topic on Physics, but not on Physics itself widely).
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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An introduction to Physics and Feynman's wit,
By dean_from_sa (Plano,TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials Of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
Feynman has condensed the contents of his presentations to 1st year Physics students at CalTech. The information about the six topics is simply put and without a prerequisite deep mathematic understanding. These more advanced lessons are available in the Feynman Lectures on Physics. If you would like a basic Physics understanding and would like learning it from a teacher with wit and verve, this is a great resource. The six topics are about atoms, basic Physics, Physics relations to other sciences, energy, gravity, and Quantum Mechanics.When read with "Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman", this book is far more interesting. It will highlight Feynman's wit and prepare you for its appearance in his lecture.
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