The Feynman lectures on physics.
Let us switch to physics for a while with this link to the complete physics courses given by Feynman between 61 and 64 at Caltech.
It has historical value, with original audio recordings and photos of the period, but above all pedagogical value, with all areas of physics explained in a clear way, giving priority to intuition over a catalog of formulas. It's an invaluable addition to any physics student's textbook.
Personally, among other discoveries, it was in these classes that I first understood divergence, rotationality and Gauss's theorem in electrostatics.
The presentations of complex amplitudes in quantum mechanics, which mathematically are the coordinates of a quantum state in a vector space on \(\mathbb{C}\), or bra-ket which are Hermitian scalar products, are quite astonishing in their very concrete aspect.
From a formal point of view, the presentation has been modernized, with enlightening and visually pleasing illustrations and diagrams.
The contents are organized in three volumes:
- Newtonian and relativistic mechanics, optics, thermodynamics.
- Electromagnetism.
- Quantum mechanics.
The Feynman lectures on Physics
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