Name: six not-so-easy pieces,einstein`s relativity, symmetry, and space-time
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Author: Feynman, Richard P. ; Leighton, Robert B. ; Sands, Matthew
ISBN: 9780465025268

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six not-so-easy pieces,einstein`s relativity, symmetry, and space-time

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Physical Book

Author

Publisher

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

184

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780465025268

Edition No.

0004

Synopsis "six not-so-easy pieces,einstein`s relativity, symmetry, and space-time"

Learn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons 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. In Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, Feynman delves into one of the most revolutionary discoveries in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's theory of relativity. The idea that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But as Feynman shows, these tricky ideas are not merely dry principles of physics, but things of beauty and elegance. No one -- not even Einstein himself -- explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of all time. "There is no better explanation for the scientifically literate layman." -Washington Post Book World

Richard P. Feynman

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Feynman has been one of the most important scientists in the history of physics in the 20th century. He was an enthusiastic popularizer of physics through books and lectures. He collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide audience in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the group that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, along with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

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