Microsoft Research made a number of Feynman lectures available in 2009 with their Project Tuva [1]. Originally it required Silverlight, but the Silverlight app has been decommissioned. The videos are now directly available online.<p>For those interested in Feynman, the man, I highly recommend "Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman.". It's a mostly fun, sometimes sad, look at his life.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richard-feynman/" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richar...</a>
Here is a path for learning physics, <a href="https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics" rel="nofollow">https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-l...</a> for those interested, and here is relevant HN discussion <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691963" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691963</a>
I notice that the way these volumes are split up is the same as both the way US AP classes and most colleges I've seen split up physics classes. Is it safe to assume that it has become the canonical order to teach the subject because of these lectures?
I'm a huge fan of Feynman, but the lectures gave me the impression they are not the ultimate learning resource for physics. Any other books on physics that people would recommend?
Funny to see the guy in the top photo in the process of lighting a smoke. Ah, the good old days.<p>Anyway, great series. I happened upon the 50th anniversary hardbound edition in a Los Alamos museum bookstore.
Does anyone know how this publication relates to Six Easy Pieces? Same thing now free? Different lectures? Same lectures but one is abridged?<p><a href="http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465025275" rel="nofollow">http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465025275</a>
My favorite part of those books is Book II, Chapter 19 on "The Principle of Least Action" - a great explanation of the core of what he would win his Nobel prize for two years later.<p>The sizable section that analyzes ways to try "beat" the two-slit electron experiment is also amazing.
Are these good for getting an intuition for the underlying <i>math</i>, without particularly caring about physics?<p>I don't care so much about particle interactions, but if I can get a better intuition for thinking about common mathematics, that would be more useful to me.
I was a physics major. These 3 volumes used to be so dry that I can't even turn a page. But those are real good memory considering I am now just a web developer digging code just for the money. Hey, at least I can show off to my former classmates on how much I am making. Don't you pity me.