What book contains Richard Feynman's 1964 Cornell lectures on physics?
Answer
The Character of Physical Law
The book containing Richard Feynman's 1964 Cornell lectures on physics is The Character of Physical Law. The lectures were delivered at Cornell University as part of the Messenger Lectures series.
Feynman's seven lectures examined broad themes in physics, including gravitation, mathematics and physical law, conservation principles, symmetry, the difference between past and future, quantum uncertainty, and the search for new laws. They were intended for a general educated audience rather than solely for professional physicists.
The BBC recorded the lectures, and the book was published under the same title in 1965. It remains one of Feynman's best-known introductions to the ideas and habits of theoretical physics. The lectures are also available through Cornell and the Caltech-hosted Feynman Lectures website.
A frequent mix-up is with The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which came from his Caltech undergraduate teaching, or Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, his anecdotal memoir. QED is another later popular physics book, focused specifically on quantum electrodynamics.