Reading the Feynman lectures in 2012 - Physics Stack Exchange
Apr 7, 2024 · The Feynman lectures are universally admired, it seems, but also a half-century old. Taking them as a source for self-study, what compensation for their age, if any, should today's …
Does anybody have solutions to the Feynman handouts?
Aug 30, 2023 · Copies of these notebooks were entrusted to me and Rudolph Pfeiffer, editors of the book Exercises for The Feynman Lectures on Physics in which most, if not all, the …
Feynman Lectures: 20–3 The gyroscope - Physics Stack Exchange
Feb 28, 2020 · In the The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I, Chapter 20, Section 3,The Gyroscope found here, Feynman wrote We note that when the wheel is precessing, the …
What is the answer to Feynman's Disc Paradox?
Jul 6, 2012 · The reference is Feynman lectures Vol II, where he discusses a circle of charges making a ring around a wire, and uses it to motivate field momentum and angular momentum. …
Feynman's derivation of Euler-Lagrange equations
Mar 30, 2025 · About global and local The following is quoted from the chapter that triggered the question: Feynman Lectures, Volume II, chapter 19 Note: I have applied the following change: …
Feynman Lectures - 100V/m in the air - Physics Stack Exchange
Aug 13, 2024 · Feynman suggests that: There is a vertical electric field E of 100 volts/m in the air. This voltage is in part maintained through the action of thunderstorms. The highest part of our …
Feynman thought experiment for gravitational time dilation
Mar 23, 2025 · In section 42-6 of The Feynman Lectures on Physics (The speed of clocks in a gravitational field), Feynman describes a thought experiment involving two clocks placed at …
Difference between "lift" and "lift off" in Feynman Lectures
Nov 22, 2020 · Here's Figure 4.1: And an excerpt from the Feynman Lectures on Physics Chapter 4.2: A very simple weight-lifting is shown in Fig. 4-1. This machine lifts three units …
Feynman's Derivation for Principle of Least Action
Jul 26, 2023 · In the Feynman Lectures on Physics (Addison–Wesley, Reading, MA, 1964), Vol. II, Chap. 19, Feynman demonstrates how the principle of stationary action for one particle …
Feynman's explanation for that the light has momentum
Dec 7, 2024 · The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Feynman demonstrates that light exerts pressure, implying it has momentum. In Feynman’s model, the charge interacts with the …