Six Not-so-easy Pieces

Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

Richard Phillips Feynman - Collection Science

152 pages, parution le 27/03/1998

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No twentieth-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)-physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon. His autobiographies and biographies have been read and enjoyed by millions of readers around the world, while his wit and eccentricities have made him the subject of TV specials and even a theatrical film. The spectacular reception of the book and audio versions of Feynman's Six Easy Pieces (published in 1995) resulted in a worldwide clamor for "More Feynman! More Feynman!" The outcome is these six additional lectures, drawn from the celebrated three-volume Lectures on Physics. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these lectures are more focused, delving into the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein's discovery of relativity. The notions that the flow of time is not a 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 and so entertainingly in the lectures chosen for this volume, these crazy notions are no mere dry principles of physics, but are things of beauty and elegance. No one-not even Einstein himself-explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Richard Feynman.

L'auteur - Richard Phillips Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman (1918- 1988) est l'un des physiciens les plus influents de la deuxième moitié du XX^e siècle, en raison notamment de ses travaux sur l'électrodynamique quantique relativiste, récompensés en 1965 par le prix Nobel de physique. Il est fauteur de nombreux ouvrages dont les célèbres Cours de physique qui ont été traduits en une douzaine de langues et se sont vendus par millions d'exemplaires dans le monde entier.

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Symmetry in Physical Laws
The Special Theory of Relativity
Relativistic Energy and Momentum
Space-Time
Curved Space

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Éditeur(s)	Perseus Publishing
Auteur(s)	Richard Phillips Feynman
Collection	Science
Parution	27/03/1998
Nb. de pages	152
Format	13,5 x 21
Couverture	Broché
Poids	222g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201328424
ISBN13	978-0-201-32842-4