The Famous Feynman Lectures on Physics: The New Online Edition (in HTML5)

[Recursion]

I got these on CD when I was in high school (yes, I was a dork). So glad to see they're online now for everybody.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/the-famous-feynman-lectures-on-physics-now-online-in-html5.html

Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website have joined forces to create an online edition of Richard Feynman’s famous lectures on physics. First presented in the early 1960s as part of a two-year introductory physics course given at Caltech, the lectures were eventually turned into a book that became a classic reference work for physics students, teachers and researchers. You can still purchase the 560 page book online, or enjoy a new web edition for free.

Created with HTML5, the new site gives readers access to “a high-quality up-to-date copy” of Feynman’s lectures.” The text “has been designed for ease of reading on devices of any size or shape,” and you can zoom into text, figures and equations without degradation. Dive right into the lectures here. And if you’d prefer to see Feynman (as opposed to read Feynman), we would encourage you to watch ‘The Character of Physical Law,’ Feynman’s seven-part lecture series recorded at Cornell in 1964.

The Character of Physical Law is particularly awesome, too.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Awesome!

I didn't get to see his lecture series books until *after* college (and four semesters of slogging through physics), I wish I'd had 'em back then. Hopefully they'll save my teenaged nerd some grief when his time comes.

[deutsey]

2. Thanks! I will check this out later!

[jsr]

3. They are timeless gems.

[DreamGypsy]

4. My hardcopies of volumes I & II have traveled with me since 1971...

...when I got them for the 5 quarter Physics (for physics majors) course as an undergraduate. That's five years before the first public demonstration of an optical digital audio disc, which became the standard for Compact Discs in 1980. Books were expensive back then...mine are stamped U of C bookstore SEP 29 1971 $9.95. Regrettably, I didn't purchase volume III since that part of the course was taught in 2nd and 3rd quarters sophomore year and by then I was a mathematics major.

(ps: I am only finding volume I online in the sources linked in the post. Are the other 2 volumes available as well? thx.)

thanks for the post.

[Recursion]

5. The links are confusing. One of them goes to the full set

And two of them go to volume one.

[caraher]

7. Which link gives the full set?

I'm only finding Volume I

[Recursion]

8. No, you're right, it's only Vol. 1

Maybe they're still working on 2?

Come to think of it I only had these 52 as a teenager, too...

[caraher]

9. OK, thanks

I assume they're working on the other two. I do have the paper books of this new edition; I don't know how much hassle/time is involved converting the book to html5, but I assume that's the bottleneck.

[Yo_Mama]

6. Thank you n/t