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Feynman's Tips on Physics

A Problem-Solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physics

Feynman's Tips on Physics( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Feynman, Richard Phillips
Gottlieb, Michael A.
Leighton, Ralph
ISBN:978-0-8053-9063-6
Publication Date:Jul 2005
Publisher:Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $39.95
Book Description:

This new volume contains four previously unpublished lectures that Feynman gave to students preparing for exams. With characteristic flair, insight and humor, Feynman discusses topics students struggle with and offers valuable tips on solving physics problems. An illuminating memoir by Matthew Sands who originally conceived The Feynman Lectures on Physics gives a fascinating insight into the history of Feynman's lecture series and the books that followed. This book is rounded...
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Book Details
Pages:76
Detailed Subjects: Science / Physics / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.318 x 9.126 x 0.702 Inches
Book Weight:1.047 Pounds
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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