Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

Feynman Lectures On Physics Now Available Online Free Of Charge


Richard Feynman in file photo.
Joe Munroe via Getty Images

By David Freeman
Posted: 09/02/2014 12:51 pm EDT Updated: 5 hours ago

From his work on the Manhattan Project to the key role he played in explaining the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman ] (1918-1988) is known for many things. But to generations of students, the late physicist is perhaps best known as the brain behind The Feynman Lectures On Physics [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics , http://www.feynmanlectures.info/ ].

A quick look at Amazon.com [ http://www.amazon.com/The-Feynman-Lectures-Physics-Volume/dp/0201021153 ] shows that a new copy of the text can be had for $332.95. But you don't have to spend a dime, now that Caltech has created a free online edition of the Lectures [ http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ ].

The online edition features all the familiar lectures, including those the Nobel Prize-winning physicist delivered on matter, electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics. The material can be read on all sorts of devices, according to the website, and everything can be "zoomed without degradation."

So have a look. But unless you're a whiz, don't expect to understand all of Feynman's physics. As Feynman himself once said [ http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman ], "Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."

Copyright ©2014 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/feynman-lectures-on-physics-online-free_n_5753056.html [with comments]

---

in addition to (linked in) the post to which this is a reply and preceding and (any future other) following, see also (linked in):

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=7580754 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=60350772 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=71430107 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=73981940 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=82222573 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=87373616 and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=96759860 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105546810 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105602397 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105614785 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105765769 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105813280 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105826892 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105844075 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105845468 and preceding and following