Lectures on Physics Volumes 1, 2 & 3 – Feynman

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These are the physics lectures I gave last year and the year before the first year and second year classes at Caltech. The lectures, of course, are not textual, they have been edited, sometimes extensively and others less.

The lectures are only part of the complete course. The full group of 180 students met in a large conference room twice a week to listen to these lectures and then divided into small groups of 15 to 20 students in recitation sections under the guidance of a teaching assistant. In addition, there was a laboratory session once a week.

The special problem we tried to solve with these conferences was to keep the interest of the enthusiastic and intelligent students who leave high schools and enter Caltech.

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  • CHAPTER 1. ATOMS IN MOTION
    CHAPTER 2. BASIC PHYSICS
    CHAPTER 3. THE RELATION OF PHYSICS TO OTHER SCIENCES
    CHAPTER 4. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
    CHAPTER 5. TIME AND DISTANCE
    CHAPTER 6. PROBABILITY
    CHAPTER 7. THE THEORY OF GRAVITATION
    CHAPTER 8. MOTION
    CHAPTER 9. NEWTON'S LAWS OF DYNAMICS
    CHAPTER 10. CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM
    CHAPTER 11. VECTORS
    CHAPTER 12. CHARACTERISTICS OF FORCE
    CHAPTER 13. WORK AND POTENTIAL ENERGY (A)
    CHAPTER 14. WORK AND POTENTIAL ENERGY (conclusion)
    CHAPTER 15. THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
    CHAPTER 16. RELATIVISTIC ENERGY AND MOMENTUM
    CHAPTER 17. SPACE-TIME
    CHAPTER 18. ROTATION IN Two DIMENSIONS
    CHAPTER 19. CENTER OF MASS, MOMENT OF INERTIA
    CHAPTER 20. ROTATION IN SPACE
    CHAPTER 21. THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR
    CHAPTER 22. ALGEBRA
    CHAPTER 23. RESONANCE
    CHAPTER 24. TRANSIENTS
    CHAPTER 25. LINEAR SYSTEMS AND REVIEW
    CHAPTER 26. OPTICS: THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST TIME
    CHAPTER 27. GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
    CHAPTER 28. ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
    CHAPTER 29. INTERFERENCE
    CHAPTER 30. DIFFRACTION
    CHAPTER 31. THE ORIGIN OF THE REFRACTIVE
    CHAPTER 32. RADIATION DAMPING. LIGHT SCATTERING
    CHAPTER 33. POLARIZATION
    CHAPTER 34. RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS IN RADIATION
    CHAPTER 35. COLOR VISION
    CHAPTER 36. MECHANISMS OF SEEING
    CHAPTER 37. QUANTUM BEHAVIOR
    CHAPTER 38. THE RELATION OF WAVE AND PARTICLE VIEWPOINTS
    CHAPTER 39. THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
    CHAPTER 40. THE PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS
    CHAPTER 41. THE BROWNIAN MOVEMENT
    CHAPTER 42. APPLICATIONS OP KINETIC THEORY
    CHAPTER 43. DIFFUSION
    CHAPTER 44. THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
    CHAPTER 45. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THERMODYNAMICS
    CHAPTER 46. RATCHET AND PAWL
    CHAPTER 47. SOUND. THE WAVE EQUATION
    CHAPTER 48. BEATS
    CHAPTER 49. MODES
    CHAPTER 50. HARMONICS
    CHAPTER 51. WAVES
    CHAPTER 52. SYMMETRY IN PHYSICAL LAWS

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