Six Easy Pieces：Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

ThisbookreprintsthesixeasiestchaptersfromFeynman'scelebratedLecturesonPhysics(LJ12/15/63),whichtheNobelPrize-winningscientistdeliveredfrom1961to1963attheCaliforniaInstituteofTechnology.Intendedforaswideanaudienceaspossible,thesechaptersareprimarilyqualitativeinnature,withaminimumofformalmathematics.Theydiscussatoms,basicphysics,therelationofphysicstoothersciences,theconservationofenergy,gravitation,andquantumbehavior.Whilethisinformativeworkprovidesarelevanthistoricalperspectiveontheessentialsofphysics,theresultissomewhatsuperficial.Nonetheless,becauseLecturesonPhysicsisoutofprintandbecausetheinformationisstillrelevant,reprintingthesespecificchapterswasprobablyarealisticmove.Thematerialwillbereadilyunderstoodbyscholars,physicsstudents,andinformedlayreaders.Recommendedforacademicandpubliclibraries.(AudiotapeandCDpackagesarealsoavailable.)-DonaldG.Frank,HarvardUniv.Lib.,Cambridge,Mass.Copyright1994ReedBusinessInformation,Inc.--Thistextreferstoanoutofprintorunavailableeditionofthistitle.