Richard P. Feynman - Easy & Not-So-Easy Pieces

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P. Feynman (1918-1988) is widely recognized as the most creative physicist
of the post-World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive.
From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos
during World War II to his work in quantum electrodynamics, for which he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965, Feynman was celebrated for his brilliant
and irreverent approach to physics.

It was 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 and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on
Physics, represent the most accessible material from the series.

In Six Easy Pieces, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following
topics: atoms, basic physics, the relationship of physics to other topics,
energy, gravitation, and quantum force. With his dazzling and inimitable
wit, Feynman presents each discussion without equations or technical jargon.

In the slightly more challenging Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, Feynman delves into
the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's
theory of relativity. The idea that the flow of time is not 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 so clearly in
these lectures, these crazy notions are not merely dry principles of
physics, but things of beauty of elegance.

Readers will remember how, using ice and water, Feynman demonstrated with
stunning simplicity to a nationally televised audience the physics of the
1986 Challenger disaster. It is precisely this ability-the clear and direct
illustration of complex theories-that made Richard Feynman one of the most
distinguished educators in the world. Filled with wonderful examples and
clever illustrations, Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is the
ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired
and accessible physicists of our time.

Six Easy Pieces was named one of the Twentieth Century's Best Nonfiction
Books