Free: Richard Feynman’s Physics Course from Cornell (1964)

We’re beam­ing you back to 1964. Richard Feyn­man, our favorite Bon­go-play­ing, Nobel Prize-win­ning physi­cist, reduces sci­ence to the barest essen­tials, to its most fun­da­men­tal truth. If a the­o­ry does­n’t square with exper­i­ment, it’s wrong. That holds true for clever the­o­ries, ele­gant the­o­ries, and all of the rest.

This clip is just a small out­take from a sev­en-part lec­ture series that Fey­man pre­sent­ed at Cor­nell in 1964, and the lec­tures are all now freely avail­able on the web thanks to Bill Gates. You can watch the full series on our site, or on a Mis­crosoft site, but be warned: if you choose the lat­ter, you’ll need to down­load Microsoft­’s Sil­verlight soft­ware to watch the lec­tures.

For more free physics lessons, don’t miss our col­lec­tion of Free Online Physics Cours­es, part of our larg­er col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

Feyn­man fans will also want to see this oth­er open project: The Feyn­man Lec­tures on Physics, The Most Pop­u­lar Physics Book Ever Writ­ten, Now Com­plete­ly Online.

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