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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time Paperback | Pages: 184 pages

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Original Title:	Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry And Space-Time
ISBN:	0465023932 (ISBN13: 9780465023936)
Edition Language:	English

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No twentieth-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988)—physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon. His autobiographies and biographies have been read and enjoyed by millions of readers around the world, while his wit and eccentricities have made him the subject of TV specials and even a theatrical film. The spectacular reception of the book and audio versions of Feynman’s Six Easy Pieces (published in 1995) resulted in a worldwide clamor for “More Feynman! More Feynman!” The outcome is these six additional lectures, drawn from the celebrated three-volume Lectures on Physics. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these lectures are more focused, delving into the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein’s discovery of relativity. The notions that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But, as Feynman shows so clearly and so entertainingly in the lectures chosen for this volume, these crazy notions are no mere dry principles of physics, but are things of beauty and elegance. No one—not even Einstein himself—explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Richard Feynman.

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Title	:	Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Author	:	Richard P. Feynman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	April 6th 2005 by Basic Books (first published 1963)
Categories	:	Science. Physics. Nonfiction. Popular Science. Mathematics. Literature. American. Writing. Essays

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A beautiful book. This is a selection from Feynman's lectures specifically covering Einstein's Special and General Theories of Relativity. The treatment is involved; not at an unreachable technical level but one needs to take some paper with pencil to enjoy the content as Feynman explains some profound and extraordinary physics.In a time of excessive work, night reads like this give a glimpse of something far more eternal and magnificent than what can be seen in normal life. And I am grateful

This book is aimed at teaching Special Relativity to students who have high school algebra (thus can handle a co-ordinate transform) and Newtonian mechanics. The introduction promises us an innovative approach to understanding physics. The first innovation appears to be the concept of relativistic mass. OK, this was written in 1963, and maybe before that students were simply told to memorize the Lorentz transformation matrix. If you have just learned Newtons Laws, you can use the same equations

Really accessible book. Similar to QED in terms of level of physics knowledge needed. He did really well with writing for the average lay person. It also has some unique thought experiments for developing an intuition regarding relativity. I especially like the ant on the reverse hot-plate analogy.

I found this book at a retired St John's College professor's house in Spring 2019. Here's my review.--This Feynman guy's pretty great! The first two chapters took a while to understand, but I got there eventually. The chapters on Relativity and Space-Time (3 4 5) were real confusing though.Most memorable for me was his talk on symmetry (2). Left and Right being actual things in the universe is pretty damn cool.I found it hard to follow the equations stated in the book, especially the Lorentz

I learned that there are somethings I cannot grasp and sometimes these things are not understandable by most people. I am one of them when it comes to this book. However, the main thing is that I learned that this man was unique in that he was brilliant and could teach also. A most commendable combination in any person....plus he had a sense of humour! I honor the man even though I did not understand most of the book.

Excellent little book that explains the gist of relativity. Concepts are explained using math a smart high schooler should be able to follow. Lot's better than the one-chapters introductions of relativity you find in Hawkins or Greene

The thing is reality itself is fascinating..!!