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In questo ciclo di conferenze, il premio Nobel Richard Feynman, parlando a braccio sulla scorta di poche note, racconta a studenti di varia provenienza, con scarse conoscenze matematiche, in che cosa consiste il lavoro del fisico teorico.
Il suo intento non è però di divulgare i contenuti della fisica (ché, tanto, senza equazioni nessuno «potrà mai far capire la natura a “quelli dell’altra cultura”») ma di mostrare il modo in cui essa procede e di rendere in qualche misura consapevoli anche i profani del valore intellettuale dell’impresa. E lo fa col suo stile immediato e antiretorico, senza vaghe affermazioni qualitative, sulla base di esempi concreti tratti dalla fisica di ieri e di oggi, analizzati quanto basta per mettere in luce l’essenza del metodo. Al lettore più esperto non sfuggiranno le osservazioni sottili,
le intuizioni profonde di cui questo libretto, come ogni scritto di Feynman, è ricco: dalla dimostrazione einsteiniana della località delle leggi di conservazione all’analisi del significato della termodinamica, alle considerazioni finali sul futuro della fisica.
- ISBN: 8833902617
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 208
- Data di uscita: 18-01-1993
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As I progressed through this excellent little book, I began to feel that the style was somehow familiar from another genre. Mozart? Perhaps e.e. cummings? But my subconscious, while granting that I wasn't totally off-base, informed me that it had a chess analogy in mind. I had never thought about it Leggi tutto
all the great early-20th century physicists came up with this l. ron hubbardish conceit to invent a pornucopia of whackadoo sci-fi theories and sell 'em to the public as hard 'reality'… the solvay conference - where they came up with the first round of bullshit - was a blast! they eliminated absolut Leggi tutto
It is impossible, by the way, by picking one of anything to pick one that is not atypical in some sense. That is the wonder of the world. I would probably be giving this little book five stars if I wasn't already familiar with much of it from reading Feynman's Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy
I once had a friend that I was tutoring in physics explain to me that this was her intro physics "textbook". Amazingly, though I was studying physics, I hadn't really been introduced to Richard Feynman in any real way. That Saturday, I sat down with a cup of coffee in my small rooming house kitchen
It is commonplace to praise Feynman for describing fiendishly difficult concepts in friendly vernacular and intuitive analogies, for example, his wet towels metaphor for the second law of thermodynamics communicates its content, import, and the sad desperation physicists have felt about it unforgett Leggi tutto
Somewhat dated since this was first published in the mid 60s, it's still a fairly decent primer on some basic physics. I'd heard Feynman was renowned for his ability to explain complex topics in simple language. I found that true to a large extent, although sometimes I got confused. It's one reason
*4.75* « What we are looking at when we see the moons is not how they are now but how they were the time ago it took the light to get there » I realize how lucky I am when, the fruit of so many years, of centuries of research, of thousands of lives agglomerated in these discoveries by geniuses of time Leggi tutto
the author explained "Foundation of quantum mechanics and Physics". He treated many interesting physics and quantum mechanics examples. I have a lot of harvest from the book. (^ ^)V
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