The physics lectures for undergraduate students delivered by Richard Feynman at the California Institute of Technology several decades ago have been made available for free on the Web.
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The series comes in three volumes: Mainly mechanics, radiation, and heat; Mainly electromagnetism and matter; and Quantum mechanics.
The lectures have been encoded in HTML 5 and will not work properly on browsers, such as Internet Explorer before version 8, that don’t support that standard. Also, graphics have been converted to SVG (vector) representations so they can be zoomed without any loss of image fidelity. They won’t expand cleanly on browsers that don’t support the SVG format—they’ll zoom in and out as low-res PNGs.
Richard Feynman, many believe, was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. He was the architect of quantum theories, the enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, and a caustic inquisitor on the Space Shuttle commission, wrote James Gleick in his book Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics.
In addition to his other roles, he is also one of the most imitated physics teachers. Now, Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website are pleased to give you the chance to sit in on his classes at Caltech, as they publish the online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Anyone with internet access and a web browser can enjoy reading a high quality up-to-date copy of the Nobel laureate’s legendary lectures.
However, they are only free to read online, and no right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics has been transferred.