Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard P. Feynman Author
Introduces the general reader to atoms, basic physics, the relationship of physics to other topics, energy, gravitation, and quantum force.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0465025277
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 29
- Pages
- 146
- Suggested Grades
- 10th - 12th
- Publisher
- Perseus Books Group
- Copyright
- 1995
- Written
- 1963
Chapters
- 0 Introduction (ix-xviii)
- 00 Preface (xix-xxiii) (xxv-xxix)
- 000 Introduction (pg.1-4)
- 1 Atoms in Motion
- 2 Basic Physics
- 3 The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences
- 4 Conservation of Energy
- 5 Time and Distance
- 6 Probability
- 7 The theory of gravitation
- 8 Motion
- 9 Newton's laws of dynamics
- 10 Conservation of momentum
- 11 Vectors
- 12 Characteristics of force
- 13 Work and potential energy (A)
- 14 Work and potential energy (conclusion)
- 15 The special theory of relativity
- 16 Relativistic energy and momentum
- 17 Space-time
- 18 Rotation in two dimensions
- 19 Center of mass; Moment of inertia
- 20 Rotation in space
- 21 The harmonic oscillator
- 22 Algebra
- 23 Resonance
- 24 Transients
- 25 Linear systems and review
- 26 Optics: The principle of least time
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