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the Feynman YouTubes as a cultural resource

 
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Nov16-11, 06:10 PM   #1
 
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There are all these Feynman YouTubes. Does anybody have a full listing? Or a favorite 10 or 20 of them? Can you list them with suggestive topic names to make it easy to find one you want?

Feynman is more than physics. I'll try to start the list

Different ways of thinking (counting and reading vs. counting and talking)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8sVailoLw

Thinking part 2 (brain didn't evolve to understand nature at quantum level)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHx00XG6-jU

MIT frat initiation question about mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuxLY94LXw

Continuation, after mirror question: What keeps a train on the track?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAwDvbIfkos

The difficulty of expaining magnetism (explanation in general)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=MO0r930Sn_8

Rubber bands---world is a jiggling mess---thermodynamics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baXv_5z7HVY

Imagining atoms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsdCzujHqAk

A cousin's trouble with algebra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZED4gITL28

Numbers part 1---appreciating very large and small scale--astronomy example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0LCVp0C-Ck

Part 2---continued astronomy example---neutron star (creative imagination)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovx7whviO3k

Electricity (strangeness of copper and motion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS25vitrZ6g

Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS25vitrZ6g

Light waves and vision (swimming pool analogy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHJ7FmV0M4

Reminiscences about learning things from his dad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=695Flhmjmg4
 
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Nov16-11, 09:21 PM   #2
 
The Relation of Mathematics to Physics (6 part series)

Part 1 (from which you can get to all the other parts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf3lY...eature=related

It looks like some people have uploaded the whole thing as one long video as well.

I just watched it and loved it.
 
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