Feynman Lectures Simplified 1C: Special Relativity and the Physics of Light (Everyone's Guide to the Feynman Lectures on Physics Book Book 3)

Feynman Simplified gives mere mortals access to the fabled Feynman Lectures on Physics. As a Caltech undergraduate, I had the amazing opportunity to learn physics directly from the greatest scientist of our age. I absorbed all I could. His style and enthusiasm were as important as the facts and equations.

Feynman Simplified 1C covers about a quarter of Volume 1, the freshman course, of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The topics we explore include:

Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
• The Principle of Relativity
• What Motivated Special Relativity?
• The Lorentz Transformation
• Length Contraction & Time Dilation
• E=mc2 & Simultaneity
• Light Cones & Causality
• Paradoxes, Puzzles, & Philosophy

The Physics of Light, including:
• Geometric Optics
• The Principle of Least Time
• Interference & Diffraction
• Feynman Sum Over Histories
• Refraction & Polarization
• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Light Scattering
• Relativistic Effects on Light

This book assumes an understanding of the material in Feynman Simplified 1A: Basic Physics. It is however, largely independent of the material in Feynman Simplified 1B.