Name: Six Easy Pieces
Rating: 4.020833333333333 (24 reviews)
ISBN: 9780465023929

Richard P. Feynman

The six easiest chapters from Feynman's celebrated lectures on physics, which the Nobel Prize-winning scientist delivered from 1961 to 1963 at the California Institute of Technology, have been reprinted in this volume.

Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Six Easy Pieces

Tuago

Interesting to see Feynman’s famous teaching style at work, but there are better and more up to date books to learn about physics. The content doesn’t work so well in writing as it might have during the classes and I was also not interested in the overly technical explanations of concepts.

Fatin Allen

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Robert B. Leighton

It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics around the world. Six Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, represent the most accessible material from the series. In these classic lessons, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, energy, gravitation, quantum mechanics, and the relationship of physics to other topics. With his dazzling and inimitable wit, Feynman presents each discussion with a minimum of jargon. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of modern times.

Six Easy Pieces Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

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