# Feynman Lectures on Physics (text and images) - now available online **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027 "2014-08-31T04:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/1 "2014-08-31T04:17:34Z")
[Link](http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/) I think it’s great that these have been made available for free online. Just thought that other physics-minded Dopers, and Feynman admirers like me, might be interested. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/2 "2014-08-31T04:36:49Z")
Very cool! Thanks for the heads up! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/3 "2014-08-31T06:42:52Z")
Excellent! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/4 "2014-08-31T14:47:04Z")
Somebody has to figure out a way to get Ray Romano to play Feynman in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/5 "2014-08-31T14:56:16Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Somebody has to figure out a way to get Ray Romano to play Feynman in a movie. 😕 Why? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/6 "2014-08-31T15:55:07Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > 😕 > > Why? They sound like they grew up on the same block. ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/7 "2014-08-31T20:28:19Z")
Coolio 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/8 "2014-08-31T23:44:05Z")
Very cool. We actually used these in my first year physics course in college. (In addition to Halliday and Resnick, not instead of.) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/9 "2014-08-31T23:54:05Z")
How out of date is all of this? Is there any point where one would want to stop watching because the information is no longer correct (based on our current knowledge)? ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/10 "2014-09-01T00:05:37Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Somebody has to figure out a way to get Ray Romano to play Feynman in a movie. Alan Alda has performed Feynman in the play “QED” in Los Angeles. I don’t think it was performed anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/11 "2014-09-01T00:11:07Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > How out of date is all of this? Is there any point where one would want to stop watching because the information is no longer correct (based on our current knowledge)? Most of it is still valid, I would say. All the stuff about classical mechanics and electromagnetism. All the stuff about statistical physics. All the basic quantum mechanics. That’s all taught in a modern course in physics. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/12 "2014-09-01T02:50:17Z")
Awesome, thanks for the heads up! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/13 "2014-09-01T20:25:04Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Alan Alda has performed Feynman in the play “QED” in Los Angeles. I don’t think it was performed anywhere else. My mistake, the play did go on for a short run on Broadway, as well as a few other places. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/14 "2014-09-02T11:16:52Z")
Matthew Broderick played him in ‘infinity’ which was a really bad movie about his early life. Feynman is probably my biggest hero and I couldn’t watch this all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feynman-lectures-on-physics-text-and-images-now-available-online/697027/15 "2014-09-04T22:07:38Z")
Yay! Thanks for the link **mhendo**!