Easy and Not-So Easy Pieces

This volume combines two sets of lectures drawn from Feynman's early-1960s undergraduate physics course at the California Institute of Technology. The first group introduces atoms, the relation of physics to other sciences, conservation of energy, gravitation, and quantum behaviour in plain language with thought experiments. The second group treats vectors, symmetry in physical laws, special relativity, space-time, and curved space, with more mathematics. The book is a teacher's exposition of fundamentals, not a biography or a popular history: a path from everyday mechanics toward the geometry of modern physics, lecture by lecture.

Texts of Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces based on the Feynman Lectures on Physics from Richard Feynman's lectures 1961-1963. 12 colour plates plus integrated diagrams, tables and photographs. Bound Red buckram cloth blocked with a gilt and white design by Matt Broughton. Gold endleaves. Gold slipcase.