Six not-so-easy pieces
Einstein's relativity, symmetry, and space-time
by Richard Phillips Feynman
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No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein's discovery of relativity. The notions that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike.
But, as Feynman shows so clearly and so entertainingly in the lectures chosen for this volume, these crazy notions are no mere dry principles of physics, but are things of beauty and elegance. No one - not even Einstein himself - explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Richard Feynman.
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These are six lectures taken from the 3 volume Feynmann Lectures on Physics:
Vectors (Vol I chapter 11)
Symmetry in Physical Laws (Vol I chapter 52)
The Special Theory of Relativity (Vol I chapter 15)
Relativistic Energy and Momentum (Vol I chapter 16)
Space-Time (Vol I chapter 17)
Curved Space (Vol II chapter 42)
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