How long does it take to read The Feynman Lectures on Physics?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1963. 512 pages, about 140,800 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This physics textbook grows out of lectures that Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate, gave to undergraduates at Caltech between 1961 and 1964, with Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands as co-authors. Its three volumes cover mechanics, radiation and heat first, then electromagnetism and the behavior of matter, and finally quantum mechanics. Topics range from atoms in motion, gravitation and relativity to optics, thermodynamics, Maxwell's equations and the hydrogen atom. In the preface, Feynman explains that he presents new ideas as such, deducing them where possible.
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Subjects: Problems, exercises, Physik, Physics, Physique, Natuurkunde, Fisica Geral
