L'ampleur du succès des cours réunis dans cet ouvrage s'explique par leur caractère fondamentalement novateur.

Le cours de physique de Feynman - Mécanique quantique

In the Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University & recorded for TV by the BBC, Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws & gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law isn't "how clever we are to have found it out, but...how clever nature is to pay attention to it" & tends his discussions toward a final exposition of the elegance & simplicity of all scientific laws. Rather than an essay on the most significant achievements in modern science, The Character of Physical Law is a statement of what is most remarkable in nature. His enlightened approach, wit & enthusiasm make this a memorable exposition of the scientist's craft. The Law of Gravitation is the principal example. Relating the details of its discovery & stressing its mathematical character, he uses it to demonstrate the essential interaction of mathematics & physics. He views mathematics as the key to any system of scientific laws, suggesting that if it were possible to fill out the structure of scientific theory completely, the result would be an integrated set of axioms. The principles of conservation, symmetry & time-irreversibility are then considered in relation to developments in classical & modern physics. In his final lecture he develops his own analysis of the process & future of scientific discovery. Like any set of oral reflections, The Character of Physical Law has value as a demonstration of a mind in action. The reader is particularly lucky in Feynman. One of the most eminent & imaginative modern physicists, he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology until his death in 1988. He's best known for work on the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, as well as for later research in the field of low-temperature physics. In 1954 he received the Albert Einstein Award for an "outstanding contribution to knowledge in mathematical & physical sciences"; in 1965 he was appointed to Foreign Membership in the Royal Society & was awarded the Nobel Prize.

La Nature De La Physique

Le Cours de physique de Feynman: mécanique 1

A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in this engagingly eccentric book. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985, simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realise that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems, and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigour and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith

Vous Voulez Rire, Monsieur Feynman !

Feynman Lectures on Physics 2: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

L’ampleur du succès qu’a rencontré le « Cours de physique de Feynman » dès sa parution s’explique par son caractère fondamentalement novateur. Richard Feynman, qui fut professeur d’université dès l’âge de vingt-quatre ans, a exprimé dans ce cours, avant d’obtenir le prix Nobel de Physique, une vision expérimentale et extrêmement personnelle de l’enseignement de la physique. Cette vision a, depuis, remporté l’adhésion des physiciens du monde entier, faisant de cet ouvrage un grand classique.Ce cours en cinq volumes (Électromagnétisme 1, Électromagnétisme 2, Mécanique 1, Mécanique 2, Mécanique quantique) s’adresse aux étudiants de tous niveaux qui y trouveront aussi bien les notions de base débarrassées de tout appareil mathématique inutile, que les avancées les plus modernes de cette science passionnante qu’est la physique.Cette nouvelle édition corrigée bénéficie en outre d’une mise en page plus aérée pour un meilleur confort de lecture.

Le Cours de physique de Feynman: mécanique quantique

Le cours de physique de Feynman: Electromagnétisme 1

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets; accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums; painting a naked female toreador. In short, here is Feynman's life in all its eccentric—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.

Le cours de physique de Feynman - Mécanique quantique

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