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Why do these lecture series keep showing up on HN? It seems every month now they are re-posted. I for one have no interest reading about Physics (I dropped that
by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Why do these lecture series keep showing up on HN? It seems every month now they are re-posted. I for one have no interest reading about Physics (I dropped that major for a reason!)
- ceejayoz 13y ago> I dropped that major for a reason! With a professor like Feynman, you might not have.
- cothomps 13y agoExcept manny of the CalTech freshmen in these courses did drop - with seats being filled by grad students. (FWIW - the recordings marketed in the "Easy Pieces" series from the lectures are a great last minute Christmas gift.)
- Jtsummers 13y agoMostly it's been announcements about the new volumes. Volume II wasn't available last time a post about the lectures was posted, which was the announcement of Volume III. And if you have no interest in it, guess what, you can ignore it. I for one am interested because when I was an undergrad I couldn't grok physics, I don't know why. After I graduated I went back and found the material that was breaking my grades seemed trivial. Something I had learned between Physics I/II and graduating put the pieces in place in my brain to understand the subject. I've just never gone back to study it in depth, this sort of content is a boon for people like me.
- cothomps 13y ago... and as a freshman physics student many of these lectures were a little opaque. I really came to appreciate them as an upperclassman / grad student.