The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Volumes 07/08, Feynman on Mechanics/Feynman on Light

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Call Number: BOCD 530 Fe V.07/08
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact discs.
Volume 7. Feynman on mechanics: Center of mass -- Moment and inertia --Rotation in space -- The harmonic oscillator -- Transients -- Linear systems and review -- Principles of statistical mechanics.
Volume 8. Feynman on light: Optics, the principle of least time -- Geometrical optics -- Electromagnetic radiation -- Interference -- Diffraction -- The origin of the refractive index.
Presented by Richard P. Feynman.
Today the Feynman Lectures are considered by many to be the best introductory set of lectures on Physics ever written. Feynman himself however stated in his original preface that he was "pessimistic" with regard to the success with which he reached all of his students. The Feynman lectures were written "to maintain the interest of very enthusiastic and rather smart students coming out of high schools and into Caltech." Feynman was targeting the lectures to students who, "at the end of two years of our previous course, [were] very discouraged because there were really very few grand, new, modern ideas presented to them." As a result, some physics students find the lectures more valuable after they obtain a good grasp of physics by studying more traditional texts. Many professional physicists refer to the lectures at various points in their careers to refresh their minds with regard to basic principles.

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