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The Berkeley course was contemporary with The Feynman Lectures on Physics (a college course at a similar mathematical level), and PSSC Physics (a high school introductory course). These physics courses were all developed in the atmosphere of urgency about science education created in the West by Sputnik .
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In 1999, it was noted by Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. that the book was widely adopted and has many foreign translations. [4] The 1965 edition, now supposed to be freely available due to a condition of the federal grant, was originally published as a volume of the Berkeley Physics Course (see below for more on the legal status).
His research covers quantum field theory and quantum electrodynamics (both concrete problems of particle physics as well as axiomatic quantum field theory, in which he, in 1975, made the connection to the Tomita–Takesaki theory). He is well known as the author of the book on quantum physics in the Berkeley Physics Course.
In 1999, he received a distinguished teaching award from UC Berkeley. [9] His "Physics for Future Presidents" series of lectures, in which Muller teaches a synopsis of modern qualitative (i.e. without resorting to complicated math) physics, has been released publicly on YouTube by UC Berkeley and has been published in book form. It has been one ...
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines is a 2008 book by University of California, Berkeley professor Richard A. Muller.It attempts to explain many physics concepts to the educated layperson, with specific applications to current issues like terrorism, energy, and climate change.
By the 1964–1965 school year, about half the US students enrolled in high school physics (200,000 students, 5000 teachers) were reportedly using the PSSC course materials. [6] However, considerable resistance developed among some teachers to the disruption of traditional methods of teaching.
He is the author of popular textbooks such as Fundamentals of Thermal and Statistical Physics (1965), Statistical Physics (1967), and Understanding Basic Mechanics (1995), and co-founded the first interdisciplinary PhD program in physics with Robert Karplus at Berkeley, The Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education, also known ...