The Feynman Lectures On Physics Website

The Feynman Lectures On Physics

Welcome to the website for

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

New Millennium Edition

Feynman • Leighton • Sands

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Feynman's Tips On Physics

A Problem-solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Feynman • Gottlieb • Leighton

Michael A. Gottlieb, Ralph Leighton

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and the forthcoming

Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics

Feynman • Leighton • Sands • Vogt

edited by Michael A. Gottlieb and Rudolf Pfeiffer

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We are proud to announce

a new iBooks textbook for iPad

Essentials of Physics Explained by its Most Brilliant Teacher

Richard P. Feynman,

with Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands

Read the Basic Books Press Release

This multimedia edition of Six Easy Pieces has its roots in the 2010 edition of Feynman’s lectures. In 2007, Michael Gottlieb, Rudolf Pfeiffer, and Ralph Leighton formulated a plan to create an electronic manuscript for The Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP) that would facilitate the repair of errata reported by perceptive readers to www.feynmanlectures.info since 2005, and serve as the basis of eBooks and multimedia editions of FLP that include pictures and recordings of Feynman delivering his famous lectures. This plan was proposed to Dr. Kip Thorne, then Caltech’s Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, who met it with enthusiasm and caution. After seeing further details, including a one-chapter demonstration of an electronic FLP, Dr. Thorne recommended that Caltech cooperate with Gottlieb, Pfeiffer, and Leighton in the execution of their plan. Pfeiffer and Gottlieb converted the three volumes of The Feynman Lectures on Physics into LaTeX, as well as 1000 exercises from the Feynman Lectures course for publication in a new volume. Pfeiffer (with some assistance) redrew the FLP figures in modern electronic form, and Gottlieb arranged for the original FLP lecture photos and the tapes to be digitized, with financial support and encouragement from Caltech Professor Carver Mead, logistical support from Caltech Archivist Shelley Erwin, and legal support from Adam Cochran. That was the beginning of the eFLP Project at Caltech, which in 2011 led to the publication by Basic Books of the Feynman Lectures on Physics New Millennium Edition, and in 2012 has produced this iBooks textbook edition of Six Easy Pieces.

... from the Six Easy Pieces Publisher’s Note

This website has been created, and is maintained, by Michael Gottlieb, assisted by Rudolf Pfeiffer, with the encouragement and approval of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which owns the rights to The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Caltech wishes the community of Feynman's readers much enjoyment and success as they pursue their study of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

– B. Thomas Soifer, Chair, Division of Physics Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech
– Kip S. Thorne, R. P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Caltech

This website is independent of Perseus Basic Books, publishers of The Feynman Lectures on Physics and Feynman's Tips on Physics. This website is independent of Pearson Addison-Wesley, former publishers of The Feynman Lectures on Physics and Feynman's Tips on Physics.

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