You can, these lectures are great for getting a more intuitive feel for Physics. However to really understand it you have to read a good book that tries to explain it, do the problems. Do the Math yourself. According to Feynman actually the only way to truly understand Physics is by deriving the theories yourself, but well. That's hard.
people like him should live forever, his passion and the abilty to communicate this passion are very much needed in this world. these lectures are awe-inspiring!
I always enjoy listening to his lectures .. amazing his understanding of the philosophy of it all. He truly can explain the hardest of subjects to a six year old & needless to say, listening to him I always feel like a six year old.
I thought I knew what high intelligence was. That was until I watched a Feynmann video. What a genius. I love how he managed to go from maths to astrophysics, back to Newtonian physics back to Superconductivity and then interconnect it all with the energy release you get from a Sun. An amazing individual.
An amazing man! He explains in a clear manner how you are short changing yourself by believing that mathematic is not for you. Yes mathématique is not easy for every body but it does not mean to ignore it. There is still so many people that believe that they can live without understanding mathematics and this is worrisome as it leads to undisciplined way of thinking which is a very slippery road. Yes intuition and preference has its place in this world but there is more than that. Very entertaining. Some physicians prefer total abstraction of reality when playing with their formulas so they are in many ways mathématiciens. Thank you for sharing that amazing video.
Feynman is awesome! I got hooked on his lectures years ago while driving over the road.
This is so entertaining! I feel like I should have this on a big screen with some popcorn.
How i love him so much
I have never been good at math or Physics but always love to watch tv shows like this. I love to watch science documentaries, physics talks even though i do not understand nothing, I enjoy watching and learning as much as possible. Few days ago I watched a lecture about gravitational waves in space, and to be honest I understood a little bit from the entire lecture.
Man with an awesome ability to get millions seated, listening to him!!!
I am totally in awe of Feynman casually writing that equation at 7:00 and just #glossing over' with his style the depth that these maths can take us. He understands as if born to it. My love is lost, the man has past. I grieve my inability to talk directly to him as that English pr1ck he had to entertain later with his 'steady state model' and continue to humour an idiot with a PhD in Physics... [ you know the name ] #stillTheBest [ yes, America, he is one of yours. Thank you for being open to his family for immigration!!! ]
8:27...If I tried, in a thousand years I could not draw two consecutive circles where the starting points and ending points meet as precisely as Feynman's did right there.
I say someone should make a movie about Feynman starring Tom Hanks
Honest & intellectual man
Thanks again for posting all these great full-length vids.
"one can be more stupid...." i love how real he is
How did the BBC ( 54:40 ) get to be the broadcaster to record this lecture. Was US tv not interested? Was this taken off a simulcast (i.e shared?)
I am curious to know if any of those in attendance went on to great feats of physics and mathematics.
At 20:30 I think he must be using the cross product between the radius (r) and velocity (r-dot), to get the rate of change of area A-dot. Velocity is always at right angles to the radius in the case of Gravitational attraction. Can't be the dot product since that would be zero right away. Anyway, that's one question I'd have for Dr. Feynman, assuming there was time for questions after the lecture. I hope he took questions, even though sadly that was edited from the film.
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