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

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a publishing first. This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard P. Feynman?s landmark work, Lectures on Physics?specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader?with the actual recordings of the late, great physicist delivering the lectures on which the chapters are based. Nobel Laureate Feynman gave these lectures just once, to a group of Caltech undergraduates in 1961 and 1962, and these newly released recordings allow you to experience one of the Twentieth Century?s greatest minds?as if you were right there in the classroom.

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Posted: Sep-16-2009

Great Teacher, Great Mind

Dr. Feynman makes the basic principles of physics accessible to the layman. I read this several years ago while in the middle of research on different topic. After finishing Mr. Gleick's biography the other day, I pulled my copy down and re-read and passed to one of my children---taking undergrad...

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Posted: Jul-19-2009

Fascinating and Enduring Explanations of Physics Concepts

"Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher," a collection of lectures given by the Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, offers a fascinating overview of six major concepts in the field of physics. While the lectures underlying the content of this work were delivered in the...

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Posted: May-14-2009

Nice job...

My order was received in a timely manner and in good condition. Thanks for making certain our gifts to our grads were here in time.

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Posted: Feb-24-2009

Feynman makes learning physics fun.

I confess it's been a little while since I read Feynman's `Six Easy Pieces,' and I expect that I could have produced a more thoroughgoing review if I'd written it earlier (so many books, so little time). But I do happily recall Feynman's engaging exposition, at least in general.This volume is a...

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Posted: Feb-17-2009

Interesting

Insights and elucidation on physics and physics in relation to other sciences. Feynman is the master at bringing his genius and knowledge to a level of understanding by use of analogy and making it seem approachable by anyone. It was interesting for the topic itself and the method of his...

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Posted: Jan-18-2009

An effort to make physic easier for beginners

Richard Feynman is a good teacher for at least half the class?The half of the class that never gets anything anyway he can inspire, butthis books is overly simple for many who are serious students.My own experience is that he explains too hard:his physics books were the texts for my college...

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Posted: Aug-05-2008

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brillant Teacher

Like most of Dr. Feynman's other books, this one provides someone with a short but understandable account of a variety of important subjects in physics. His descriptions of physics are entertaining and reveal his particular way of approaching the subject. To really understand any subject, it is...

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Posted: Dec-13-2007

A worthy read

Although it is a transcribed version of a spoken lecture, Feynman's eloquence and enthusiasm nonethless makes it's way onto the page, decades after he spoke these words. His articulation of the basic concepts of physics is truely remarkable and I whole-heartedly recommend this book for those...

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Posted: Oct-17-2007

Good, but perhaps a bit too easy and a bit unfocused.

The intention of this review is to give the reader enough information to decide whether or not to read this book. That Feynman was perhaps the foremost physicist of the middle of the 20th century goes without saying. He was also a great educator and popularize of the most complex ideas of...

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Posted: Sep-03-2007

Interesting historical perspective

This is the kind of book to pick up from the library out of curiosity, as opposed to buying it. I am a big Feynman fan and wanted to see what he said all those years ago about these basic topics, as opposed to wanting to learn much from the content. If you are pretty informed about basic physics,...

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