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Six easy pieces : [sound recording] essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher / Richard P. Feynman.
TITLE:
Six easy pieces : [sound recording] essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher / Richard P. Feynman.
Publication Date:
1995
Publication Information:
Reading, Mass. : Helix Books,
Edition:
Unabridged ed.
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes (running time n/a) in 1 container.
Contents:
Atoms in motion (September 26, 1961) -- Basic physics (September 29, 1961) -- relation of physics to other sciences (October 3, 1961) -- Conservation of energy (October 6, 1961) -- theory of gravitation (October 17, 1961) -- Quantum behavior (April 3, 1962)
Summary:
Presents six of the easiest chapters from the Nobel Prize winner's celebrated text Lectures in Physics, originally published in 1963, which comprised the lectures he prepared for undergraduate students at Caltech in the early 1960s. Addressing key topics in largely qualitative terms without formal mathematics, the six selections discuss atoms in motion, basic physics, the relation of physics to other sciences, conservation of energy, the theory of gravitation, and quantum behavior.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780201483086
General Note:
Cassettes.
"Actural recordings of Richard Feynman in the classroom."
