Feynman Lectures On Gravitation (Penguin Press Science S.) - Softcover

Feynman, Richard P.; Moringo, Fernando B.; Wagner, William G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140284508 ISBN 13: 9780140284508

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

Feynman Lectures on Gravitation

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Synopsis

The "Feynman Lectures on Gravitation" are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman taught about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a record of his viewpoint and some of his insights into gravitation and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues.

About the Author

Richard P. Feynman (1818-88) was one of this century's most brilliant and original thinkers. He taught at Cornell and the California Institute of Technology and received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics.

Books byFeynman in Penguin include THE CHARACTER OF PHYSICAL LAW (1965), QED (1985), SIX EASY PIECES, SIX NOT-SO-EASY PIECES and the bestselling THE MEANING OF IT ALL, all published in 1998.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140284508
• ISBN 13: 9780140284508
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Hatfield Brian