Six Easy Pieces

Richard P. Feynman inspired a generation of students across the world with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching. An outstanding communicator, he presented complex problems in simplified understandable terms, returning to the fundamentals of physics and illuminating key concepts in a fresh and dynamic way. Drawn from his celebrated and landmark text Lectures on Physics, this collection of essays reveals Feynman's distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics to the general reader. The topics explored include atoms, the fundamentals of physics and its relation to other sciences, the theory of gravitation and quantum behaviour.