Feynman s Preface
These are the lectures in physics that I gave last year and the year before to the
freshman and sophomore classes at Caltech.
The lectures are, of course, not
verbatim—they have been edited, sometimes extensively and sometimes less so....
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Feynman s Preface
These are the lectures in physics that I gave last year and the year before to the
freshman and sophomore classes at Caltech.
The lectures are, of course, not
verbatim—they have been edited, sometimes extensively and sometimes less so.
The lectures form only part of the complete course.
The whole group of 180
students gathered in a big lecture room twice a week to hear these lectures and
then they broke up into small groups of 15 to 20 students in recitation sections
under the guidance of a teaching assistant.
In addition, there was a laboratory
session once a week.
The special problem we tried to get at with these lectures was to maintain the
interest of the very enthusiastic and rather smart students coming out of the high
schools and into Caltech.
They have heard a lot about how interesting and exciting physics is—the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and other modern
ideas.
By the end of two years of our previous course, many would be very discourage
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