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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry and Space-Time

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces( )
Author: Feynman, Richard Phillips
Series title:Penguin Science Ser.
ISBN:978-0-14-027667-1
Publication Date:Sep 2000
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.95
Book Description:

Taken from his celebrated Caltech lectures, Six Not-So-Easy Piecesis more challenging in its content than the previous volume Six Easy Pieces(Penguin 1998), providing an exhilarating analysis of one of the most important general areas of modern theoretical physics- Relativity. The lectures, delivered in Feynman's inimitable style, begin by dealing with issues of symmetry before moving on to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and how the principle of relativity...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Science / Physics / General
Science / Physics / Relativity
Science / Time
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13 x 19.8 x 1.1 cm
Book Weight:0.136 Kilograms
Author Biography
Feynman, Richard Phillips (Author)
Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist, received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1942 and worked at Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the atomic bomb during World War II. From 1945 to 1950, he taught at Cornell University and became professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1950.

Feynman made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics (QED) and electromagnetic interactions, such as interactions among electrons. In Feynman's approach, interactions are considered exchanges of virtual particles. For example, Feynman explained the interaction of two electrons as an exchange of virtual photons. Feynman's theory has proved to be accurate in its predictions. In 1965 the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three pioneers in quantum electrodynamics: Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.

Feynman was an outspoken critic of NASA for its failure to notice flaws in the design of the Challenger space shuttle, which resulted in its tragic explosion.

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