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Summary: Audio Volume #14 Feynman on Electricity & Magnetism PART ONE
Review: THIS REVIEW IS FOR VOLUME 14 OF THE RECORDED AUDIO LECTURES ON TAPE - NOT THE "FEYNMAN LECTURES ON PHYSICS" BOOK AND NOT ANY OTHER AUDIO VOLUME DESPITE AMAZON'S PLACEMENT OF THIS REVIEW ON THE WRONG VOLUME PAGE. (the system also seems to miss-associate these reviews with the incorrect audio volumes.) THIS IS PART ONE OF TWO VOLUMES ON ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM - VOLUME #15 IS PART TWO.
OK, that warning aside, the subject is Electrodynamics. The man is Feynman. Here's what you get:
Six hours of Feynman lecturing (in his characteristic idiosyncratic demeanor) to students at the California Institute of Technology during the early years of the 1960's. Yes folks, that's right: Six 1 hour lectures on six audio tapes covering the first six contiguous chapters from which volume two of the printed lectures was transcribed. The lectures also cover some serious mathematics (Differential & Vector Calculus). This is where owning a copy of the printed lectures comes in handy for following the lecture from his transcribed use of the massive University lecture hall chalk-boards. The only audio editing is from the publisher announcing the date, lecture title, and where each chapter subsection begins. It is interesting to hear the background noise of the students as they file in and out of the lecture hall and towards the end of each lecture. You also hear bells in the hallway signaling the end of the class or possibly the lunch break. The students enthusiastically demonstrate their appreciation of Professor Feynman's efforts by applauding him at the end of each lecture. Of course Professor Feynman makes use of the chalkboard which you wont have the advantage of seeing but you could keep a copy of the printed lectures on hand (separate purchase) to get whatever visuals you need from the transcribed illustrated diagrams which were published (I have done this and it's handy). Mostly I just listen to these tapes (I have a collection of over 72 taped lectures) on my one hour a day commute each day, over and over again. It's like I'm always in school with the great genius of Feynman every day!
This audio volume (#14) is Part 1 of 2. The next six contiguous lectures will be available in audio volume #15. By the way, I wrote the publisher (Perseus Books Group) and asked them when Part 2 would be available to which they promptly sent the helpful reply:
'Volumes 15 and 16 of the Audio Collection will be coming out this spring. Volume 15 (Feynman on Electricity and Magnetism, Part 2) contains sections on electrostatic energy, electricity in the atmosphere-including lightning and thunderstorms-magnetostatics, and the magnetic field. Volume 16 (Feynman on Electromagnetism) discusses the vector potential, laws of induction, and the Maxwell equations. According to our production schedule, both volumes should be available by April.' Well anyhow, I thought that you'd like to see how these audio lectures correlate to the printed 'Lectures on Physics' by audiocassette to volume & chapter for each book: Tape #1 is from the printed lectures Vol. II Chapter 1: ELECTROMAGNETISM (Sept. 27, 1962)
1.1Electrical forces
1.2Electric and Magnetic fields
1.3Characterizations of vector fields
1.4The laws of electromagnetism
1.5What are fields?
1.6Electromagnetism in science and technology Tape #2 is from the printed lectures Vol. II Chapter 2: DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS OF VECTOR FIELDS (Oct. 1, 1962)
2.1Understanding physics
2.2Scalar and vector fields - T and h
2.3Derivatives of fields - the gradient
2.4The operator del
2.5Operators with del
2.6The differential equation of heat flow
2.7Second derivatives of vector fields
2.8Pitfalls Tape #3 is from the printed lectures Vol. II Chapter 3: VECTOR INTEGRAL CALCULUS (Oct. 4, 1962)
3.1Vector integrals; the line integral of del Y
3.2The flux of a vector field
3.3The flux from a cube; Gauss' theorem
3.4Heat conduction; the diffusion equation
3.5The circulation of a vector field
3.6The circulation around a square; Stokes's theorem
3.7Curl-free and divergence-free fields
3.8Summary Tape #4 is from the printed lectures Vol. II Chapter 4: ELECTROSTATICS (Oct. 8, 1962)
4.1Statics
4.2Coulomb's law; superposition
4.3Electric potential
4.4E=-del f
4.5The flux of E
4.6Gauss' law; divergence of E
4.7Field of a sphere of charge
4.8Field lines; equipotential surfaces Tape #5 is from the printed lectures Vol. II Chapter 5: APPLICATION OF GAUSS' LAW (Oct. 11, 1962)
5.1Electrostatics is Gauss' law plus...
5.2Equilibrium in an electrostatic field
5.3Equilibrium with conductors
5.4Stability of atoms
5.5The field of a line charge
5.6A sheet of charge; a spherical shell
5.7A sphere of charge; a spherical shell
5.8Is the field of a point charge exactly 1/r^2
5.9The fields of a conductor
5.10The field in a cavity of a conductor Tape #6 is from the printed lectures Vol. II Chapter 6: THE ELECTRIC FIELD IN VARIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES (Oct. 15, 1962)
6.1Equations of the electrostatic potential
6.2The electric dipole
6.3Remarks on vector equations
6.4The dipole potential as a gradient
6.5The dipole approximation for an arbitrary distribution
6.6The fields of charged conductors
6.7The method of images
6.8A point charge near a conducting plate
6.9A point charge near a conducting sphere
6.10Condensers: parallel plates
6.11High-voltage breakdown (...) check out my other Feynman reviews & "Listmania Lists". Tell me what you think. Thanks & Enjoy!
IndiAndy
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