~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
Chapter 10 Conservation of Momentum
Chapter 11 Vectors
Chapter 12 Characteristics of Force