This book includes 4 previously unpublished lectures that feynman gave in the original flp course three lectures on problem solving, and one on applications of dynamical systems, focusing mainly on inertial guidance, an historical memoir by flp coauthor matthew sands, and about 80 physics. May 16, 2014 in short no, because mathematics is not as unified a subject as physics. This book is primarly focused on advanced introductory physics, and unlike high school physics this volume of feynman s lectures goes in depth of the things that are taught in high school physics such as kinematics and energy which is a common high school science subject however feynman goes in depth and talks about the gravitational constant. Book description hachette book group usa jan 2011, 2011. Richard feynmans physics lectures from cornell 1964. Errata for the feynman lectures on physics volume ii definitive edition final printing the errors in this list appear in the final printing of the feynman lectures on physics.
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Leighton and matthew sands, based upon the lectures given by feynman to undergraduate students at the california institute of technology caltech in 196163 it includes lectures on mathematics, electromagnetism, newtonian physics, quantum physics, and the relation of physics to other sciences. For several years prior to these lectures, feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. The lectures were presented before undergraduate students at the california institute of technology caltech, during 19611963. When ralph leighton and i first proposed the projects that eventually led to the publication of the definitive edition of flp, the new millennium edition of flp, feynman s tips on physics, exercises for the feynman lectures on physics, the freetoread online edition of flp, etc. The feynman lectures on physics, originally published in 1963, were. First presented in the early 1960s as part of a twoyear introductory physics course given at caltech, the lectures were eventually turned into a book that became a classic reference work for physics students.
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