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In 1964 Richard Feynman delivered a lecture to the Caltech freshman class, "The Motion of Planets Around the Sun"--why the planets move elliptically, ...Show synopsisIn 1964 Richard Feynman delivered a lecture to the Caltech freshman class, "The Motion of Planets Around the Sun"--why the planets move elliptically, as Isaac Newton had discovered 300 years earlier. The subject of this lecture was the watershed discovery that separated the ancient world from the modern. In this book/CD package, Feynman's lecture has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. 25 photos.Hide synopsis
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun (Vintage Books) – Trade paperback (1997)
by
David L Goodstein
Trade paperback, Vintage Books 1997
English
191 pages
ISBN: 0099736217 ISBN-13: 9780099736219
Richard Feynman's fame rests to a large extent on his picaresque exploits, but he was also a theoretical physicist of some significance. The discovery of the notes for his major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed. The lecture concerns the fact that, when a planet or any other body arcs through space under the influence of gravity, ...Show moreRichard Feynman's fame rests to a large extent on his picaresque exploits, but he was also a theoretical physicist of some significance. The discovery of the notes for his major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed. The lecture concerns the fact that, when a planet or any other body arcs through space under the influence of gravity, it traces out a specific set of mathematical curves. Feynman considers why nature chooses to trace out in the sky those - and only those - elegant geometrical constructions.Hide
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Title: Feynman's Lost Lecture the Motions of Planets Around the Sun: Motion of Planets Around the Sun Author:David L Goodstein ISBN-13:9780099736219 ISBN:0099736217
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I couldn't get through Newton's Principia. Come to find out, neither could Feynman. This book provides clear, easily understandable proofs, along with an interesting background of planetary motion theories from Copernicus forward.
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