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Does anyone know how this publication relates to Six Easy Pieces? Same thing now free? Different lectures? Same lectures but one is abridged? http://www.basicb
by hackuser 10y ago
Does anyone know how this publication relates to Six Easy Pieces? Same thing now free? Different lectures? Same lectures but one is abridged?
http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465025275 http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465025275
- apetresc 10y agoBased on the description of "Six Easy Pieces", it appears to be a book targeted specifically at a lay audience, to popularize physics. The Feynman Lectures on Physics are basically a collection of lecture notes for a series of courses he taught at CalTech to physics majors, a decidedly not-lay audience.
- CalChris 10y agoSix Easy Pieces corresponds to these chapters in The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Chapter 1, Atoms in Motion Chapter 2, Basic Physics Chapter 3, Relation of Physics to Other Sciences Chapter 4, Conservation of Energy Chapter 7, Theory of Gravitation Chapter 37, Quantum Behavior The editing differences are probably slight. Six Easy Pieces first came out in 1994 and the question would be whether a particular edition contains the 2006 definitive edition corrections.
- sparky_z 10y agoI believe it's just 6 of the lectures, selected for their accessibility to a general audience (i.e., lack of mathyness).