They wanted a way to introduce undergraduate students to “modern” physics topics, like relativity, atoms, nuclei, and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Richard Feynman, along with Robert Leighton, Victor Neher, and Matthew Sands, first developed the lectures in the late 1950s at Caltech. The last one uploaded was actually the second of the three volumes, Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter, which was posted in December 2013. The first volume, Mainly Mechanics, Radiation and Heat, was first uploaded in September 2013. The website reproduces the three volumes, including all the equations and diagrams. A free-to-read high-quality online edition was my proposed solution to both problems.”
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“At the same time I was becoming aware of the growing popularity of horrid scanned copies of old editions…that were circulating on file-sharing and torrent websites. “I became aware of the many eager young minds who could benefit from reading, who had heard of it and wanted to read it, but who had no access for economic or other reasons,” said Michael Gottlieb, editor of the Feynman Lectures on Physics.
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It is the first time the popular physics texts are available online for free in their entirety. The California Institute of Technology in conjunction with the Feynman Lectures Website recently completed a years-long effort to upload the entire set of Richard Feynman’s classic Lectures on Physics for the public to access for free.
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