Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Feynman, Richard P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Also by Richard P. Feynman Title Page PUBLISHER’S NOTE Introduction SPECIAL PREFACE FEYNMAN’S PREFACE 1 - VECTORS

1-1 Symmetry in physics 1-2 Translations 1-3 Rotations 1-4 Vectors 1-5 Vector algebra 1-6 Newton’s laws in vector notation 1-7 Scalar product of vectors

2 - SYMMETRY IN PHYSICAL LAWS

2-1 Symmetry operations 2-2 Symmetry in space and time 2-3 Symmetry and conservation laws 2-4 Mirror reflections 2-5 Polar and axial vectors 2-6 Which hand is right? 2-7 Parity is not conserved! 2-8 Antimatter 2-9 Broken symmetries

3 - THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

3-1 The principle of relativity 3-2 The Lorentz transformation 3-3 The Michelson-Morley experiment 3-4 Transformation of time 3-5 The Lorentz contraction 3-6 Simultaneity 3-7 Four-vectors 3-8 Relativistic dynamics 3-9 Equivalence of mass and energy

4 - RELATIVISTIC ENERGY AND MOMENTUM

4-1 Relativity and the philosophers 4-2 The twin paradox 4-3 Transformation of velocities 4-4 Relativistic mass 4-5 Relativistic energy

5 - SPACE-TIME

5-1 The geometry of space-time 5-2 Space-time intervals 5-3 Past, present, and future 5-4 More about four-vectors 5-5 Four-vector algebra

6 - CURVED SPACE

6-1 Curved spaces with two dimensions 6-2 Curvature in three-dimensional space 6-3 Our space is curved 6-4 Geometry in space-time 6-5 Gravity and the principle of equivalence 6-6 The speed of clocks in a gravitational field 6-7 The curvature of space-time 6-8 Motion in curved space-time 6-9 Einstein’s theory of gravitation

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