~Archived - Collected Links Accompanying Feynman Lectures

Page created: September 2010

Page last modified: October 2010

Story of how I got around to reading these lectures is here.

The following links point to various resources (textual explanations, diagrams, java applets, videos) available online to help enhance your experience while studying the Lectures. The Feynman Lectures were published in 1964. Lots of advancements have been made since then: Bose Einstein Condensate, String Theory, Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, Large hadron Collider etc.. I have also linked to these resources regarding these concepts too.

A few general links:

• Wikipedia Entry
  • www.feynmanlectures.info - Exercises with solutions | Errata | Forum for discussion
  • Flash Videos featuring Richard Feynman :
  • BBC Horizon 1981 - Pleasure of Finding Things Out
    • Fun to Imagine: P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | P7 | P8 | P9 | P10 | P11 | P12
    • Take the world from another point of view: P1 | P2 | P3 | P4
    • The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures: P1 | P2 | P3 | P4

VOLUME 1

• Chapter 1 Atoms in Motion
  • Section 1-2 : Simulation of atoms bouncing around (Java Applet)
• Chapter 2 Basic Physics
  • Section 2-4: CPEP Particle Chart (PDF)
  • Section 2-4: Fine Structure Constant (1/137): Wikipedia
  • Section 2-4: Four kinds of interactions: Wikipedia
• Chapter 3 The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences
• Chapter 4 Conservation of Energy
• Chapter 5 Time and Distance
  • Section 5-3: Why does light slow down in a material or why does it bend? Answer here
  • Section 5-4: Geological Time Scale Chart (PDF)
  • Section 5-4: Plot of radioactive decay equation | Radioactivity examples @ Wolfram Alpha
  • Section 5-7: Scale of Distances: Universcale (Flash) | Scale of the Universe 2 (Flash)
• Chapter 6 Probability
  • Section 6-4: Probability Distributions: Wikipedia | List | Java Applet for graphing
  • Section 6-5: The Bose-Einstein Condensate | BEC: Home Page | Why BEC Appears White?
• Chapter 7 The Theory of Gravitation
  • Section 7-2: Kepler's Laws: Java Applet for 1st Law | Java Applet for 2nd Law
  • Section 7-4: Figures explaining the phenomenon of tides: Link1 | Link2 | Wikipedia
  • Section 7-5: The first successful measurement of the speed of light & Ole Christensen Römer
  • Section 7-5: Scale of Gravity: XKCD Gravity Wells
  • Section 7-6: Cavendish's Experiment: Wikipedia | Apparatus (youtube)
• Chapter 8 Motion
  • Section 8-1: Car's motion with constant acceleration (Java Applet)
  • Section 8-5: Projectile Motion: Java Applet1 | Java Applet2 | Flash Simulation | Analytic (Height and Range)
• Chapter 9 Newton's Laws of Dynamics
  • Section 9-7: Processing Gravity (How I created a C++ Program/Java Applet to simulate Planetary motion)
• Chapter 10 Conservation of Momentum
  • Section 10-3: 1 Dimensional Collisions Conversation of Momentum (Java Applet)
  • Section 10-3: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions (Java Applet)
  • Section 10-3: Two Dimensional Collisions (Java Applet)
  • Section 10-3: Neher, H. V. and Leighton, R. B. (1963) Linear Air Trough. American Journal of Physics, 31 (4). pp. 255-262. (PDF)
• Chapter 11 Vectors
  • Section 11-4: Euclidean Vectors (Wikipedia)
  • Section 11-5: Vector Analysis Summary for Physics Students (youtube)
  • Section 11-5: Vector Aaddition (Java Applets)
• Chapter 12 Characteristics of Force
  • Section 12-2: Friction: Wikipedia | Java Applets
  • Section 12-4: Cathode ray tube and deflection of electrons using a magnet (youtube)
  • Section 12-5: Frames of Reference (1960 PSSC Video)