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Jim Ottaviani | 272 pages | 13 May 2013 | Roaring Brook Press | 9781596438279 | English | New Milford, United States The Feynman Technique: A Beginner's Guide to Learning Fast

While complex, subject-specific jargon sounds cool, it confuses people and urges them to stop paying attention. Replace technical terms with simpler words, and think of how you could explain your lesson to a child. Children are not able to understand jargon or dense vocabulary. His charts were able to simply explain things that other scientists took hours to lecture students on in an attempt to teach them. If a concept is highly technical or complicated, analogies are also a good way to simplify them. Analogies are the foundation of learning from experience, and they work because they make use of your brain's natural inclination to match patterns. Analogies influence what you perceive and remember, and help you process information more easily because you associate it with things you already know. These mental shortcuts are useful methods of processing new and unfamiliar information and help people understand, organize, and comprehend incoming information. One example of an analogy created by Feynman encapsulates the power of his technique. He was able to take a question regarding human existence and simplify it into a simple sentence that even a middle-schooler could understand. Feynman said:. Here, Feynman is saying that if you don't know anything about physics, the most important concept to understand is that everything is composed of atoms. In one sentence, he communicates the fundamental existence of the universe. This is a genius ability—not only for scientists but also for writers of any subject. Get to your point as succinctly as possible, and avoid confusing and verbose language. Not exactly. If you are trying to memorize something, this is not the technique to use. Using flashcards or mnemonics are more effective strategies for memorization. This is also not a good technique to use on concepts that you already find to be simple or easy to understand. Now that you know what the Feynman Technique is, let's look at how to apply it. While this technique is most commonly used to help people understand difficult math concepts, it can really be used with any complex concept. This is especially helpful when you are trying to understand challenging concepts or complex interactions, such as when math and physics are combined. Knowing where you have gaps in knowledge is the point where true learning occurs. What doesn't make sense, or what piece of the puzzle is missing? Highlighting your gaps in knowledge will help you organize your notes into a cohesive narrative. Using one of the many Feynman Technique examples, you can create an analogy to understand the concept of torque. Torque is a force that rotates an object. To create an analogy to help you understand the concept of torque, you can think about drilling a nail into wood. If possible, try to come up with your own analogy to help understand and explain the topic at hand. Using analogies when teaching forces you to meet your listeners where they are in terms of their level of understanding, and relate something they already know to the new concept you are teaching. For example, let's say you are using some Feynman tricks to explain how to write a story. You may make it simple by reducing the concept of a story to the simple structure of a pyramid. The image of a pyramid can communicate complex information to a student in a simple way because they can relate a story's structure to a shape they are familiar with. This shape gives students an intuitive understanding of the tension that builds in a good story and eventually reaches a climax before becoming resolved or diffused in some way. Being able to come up with an analogy like this forces you to understand a concept well enough to relate it to an idea you're already familiar with. A great way to practice this is to get into a small study group and take turns teaching each other the material that will be on your exam. If everyone in the group gets stuck on an idea, work together to simplify it until it is clear to everyone. Explaining these concepts to your classmates or friends will not only stimulate your senses, but it will also provoke emotional responses that help you retain the information. She later followed him to Caltech, where he gave a lecture. While he was in Brazil, she taught classes on the history of furniture and interiors at Michigan State University. He proposed to her by mail from Rio de Janeiro, and they married in Boise, Idaho , on June 28, , shortly after he returned. They frequently quarreled and she was frightened by his violent temper. Their politics were different; although he registered and voted as a Republican , she was more conservative, and her opinion on the Oppenheimer security hearing "Where there's smoke there's fire" offended him. They separated on May 20, An interlocutory decree of divorce was entered on June 19, , on the grounds of "extreme cruelty". The divorce became final on May 5, Mary Louise Bell, divorce complaint []. In the wake of the Sputnik crisis , the U. Feynman was considered for a seat on the President's Science Advisory Committee , but was not appointed. Edgar Hoover on August 8, I do not know—but I believe that is either a Communist or very strongly pro-Communist—and as such is a very definite security risk. This man is, in my opinion, an extremely complex and dangerous person, a very dangerous person to have in a position of public trust In matters of intrigue Richard Feynman is, I believe immensely clever—indeed a genius—and he is, I further believe, completely ruthless, unhampered by morals, ethics, or religion—and will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve his ends. The U. Feynman's love life had been turbulent since his divorce; his previous girlfriend had walked off with his Albert Einstein Award medal and, on the advice of an earlier girlfriend, had feigned pregnancy and blackmailed him into paying for an abortion, then used the money to buy furniture. Feynman knew that this sort of behavior was illegal under the Mann Act , so he had a friend, Matthew Sands , act as her sponsor. Howarth pointed out that she already had two boyfriends, but decided to take Feynman up on his offer, and arrived in Altadena, California , in June She made a point of dating other men, but Feynman proposed in early They were married on September 24, , at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. They had a son, Carl, in , and adopted a daughter, Michelle, in Feynman tried marijuana and ketamine at John Lilly 's sensory deprivation tanks, as a way of studying consciousness. Despite his curiosity about hallucinations, he was reluctant to experiment with LSD. There had been protests over his alleged sexism in , and again in , but there is no evidence he discriminated against women. Seeing the protesters, as Feynman later recalled the incident, he addressed institutional sexism by saying that "women do indeed suffer prejudice and discrimination in physics". At Caltech, Feynman investigated the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium , where helium seems to display a complete lack of viscosity when flowing. Feynman provided a quantum-mechanical explanation for the Soviet Lev Landau 's theory of superfluidity. This helped with the problem of superconductivity , but the solution eluded Feynman. Feynman, inspired by a desire to quantize the Wheeler— Feynman absorber theory of electrodynamics, laid the groundwork for the path integral formulation and Feynman diagrams. With Murray Gell- Mann, Feynman developed a model of weak decay , which showed that the current coupling in the process is a combination of vector and axial currents an example of weak decay is the decay of a neutron into an electron, a proton, and an antineutrino. Although E. George Sudarshan and Robert Marshak developed the theory nearly simultaneously, Feynman's collaboration with Murray Gell-Mann was seen as seminal because the was neatly described by the vector and axial currents. It thus combined the beta decay theory of with an explanation of parity violation. Feynman attempted an explanation, called the parton model , of the strong interactions governing nucleon scattering. The parton model emerged as a complement to the quark model developed by Gell-Mann. The relationship between the two models was murky; Gell-Mann referred to Feynman's partons derisively as "put-ons". In the mids, believed that quarks were just a bookkeeping device for symmetry numbers, not real particles; the statistics of the omega-minus particle , if it were interpreted as three identical strange quarks bound together, seemed impossible if quarks were real. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory deep inelastic scattering experiments of the late s showed that nucleons protons and neutrons contained point-like particles that scattered electrons. It was natural to identify these with quarks, but Feynman's parton model attempted to interpret the experimental data in a way that did not introduce additional hypotheses. These electrically neutral particles are now seen to be the gluons that carry the forces between the quarks, and their three-valued color quantum number solves the omega-minus problem. Feynman did not dispute the quark model; for example, when the fifth quark was discovered in , Feynman immediately pointed out to his students that the discovery implied the existence of a sixth quark, which was discovered in the decade after his death. After the success of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman turned to quantum gravity. By analogy with the photon, which has spin 1, he investigated the consequences of a free massless spin 2 field and derived the Einstein field equation of general relativity, but little more. The computational device that Feynman discovered then for gravity, "ghosts", which are "particles" in the interior of his diagrams that have the "wrong" connection between spin and statistics, have proved invaluable in explaining the quantum particle behavior of the Yang—Mills theories , for example, quantum chromodynamics and the electro-weak theory. John and Mary Gribbin state in their book on Feynman that "Nobody else has made such influential contributions to the investigation of all four of the interactions". Feynman was also interested in the relationship between physics and computation. He was also one of the first scientists to conceive the possibility of quantum computers. In the early s, Feynman acceded to a request to "spruce up" the teaching of undergraduates at Caltech. After three years devoted to the task, he produced a series of lectures that later became The Feynman Lectures on Physics. He wanted a picture of a drumhead sprinkled with powder to show the modes of vibration at the beginning of the book. Concerned over the connections to drugs and rock and roll that could be made from the image, the publishers changed the cover to plain red, though they included a picture of him playing drums in the foreword. Leighton and Matthew Sands, as part-time co-authors for several years. Even though the books were not adopted by universities as textbooks, they continue to sell well because they provide a deep understanding of physics. Feynman wrote about his experiences teaching physics undergraduates in Brazil. The students' study habits and the Portuguese language textbooks were so devoid of any context or applications for their information that, in Feynman's opinion, the students were not learning physics at all. At the end of the year, Feynman was invited to give a lecture on his teaching experiences, and he agreed to do so, provided he could speak frankly, which he did. Feynman opposed rote learning or unthinking memorization and other teaching methods that emphasized form over function. Clear thinking and clear presentation were fundamental prerequisites for his attention. It could be perilous even to approach him unprepared, and he did not forget fools and pretenders. He was not impressed with what he found. Elementary students were taught about sets , but:. I see no need or reason for this all to be explained or to be taught in school. It is not a useful way to express one's self. It is not a cogent and simple way. It is claimed to be precise, but precise for what purpose? In April , Feynman delivered an address to the National Science Teachers Association , in which he suggested how students could be made to think like scientists, be open-minded, curious, and especially, to doubt. In the course of the lecture, he gave a definition of science, which he said came about by several stages. The evolution of intelligent life on planet Earth—creatures such as cats that play and learn from experience. The evolution of humans, who came to use language to pass knowledge from one individual to the next, so that the knowledge was not lost when an individual died. Unfortunately, incorrect knowledge could be passed down as well as correct knowledge, so another step was needed. Galileo and others started doubting the truth of what was passed down and to investigate ab initio , from experience, what the true situation was—this was science. In , Feynman delivered the Caltech commencement address on the topic of cargo cult science , which has the semblance of science, but is only pseudoscience due to a lack of "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" on the part of the scientist. He instructed the graduating class that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that. Feynman served as doctoral advisor to 31 students. In , Feynman supported his colleague Jenijoy La Belle , who had been hired as Caltech's first female professor in , and filed suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after she was refused tenure in La Belle finally received tenure in Many of Feynman's colleagues were surprised that he took her side. He had got to know La Belle and both liked and admired her. In the s, Feynman began thinking of writing an autobiography, and he began granting interviews to historians. In the s, working with Ralph Leighton Robert Leighton's son , he recorded chapters on audio tape that Ralph transcribed. The book was published in as Surely You're Joking, Mr. Gell-Mann was upset by Feynman's account in the book of the weak interaction work, and threatened to sue, resulting in a correction being inserted in later editions. Gell-Mann often expressed frustration at the attention Feynman received; [] he remarked: "[Feynman] was a great scientist, but he spent a great deal of his effort generating anecdotes about himself. Feynman has been criticized for a chapter in the book entitled "You Just Ask Them", where he describes how he learned to seduce women at a bar he went to in the summer of A mentor taught him to ask a woman if she would sleep with him before buying her anything. He describes seeing women at the bar as "bitches" in his thoughts, and tells a story of how he told a woman named Ann that "You are worse than a whore" after Ann convinced him to buy her sandwiches by telling him he would eat them at her place, but then, after he bought them, saying they actually couldn't eat together because another man was coming over; later on that same evening Ann returned to the bar to take Feynman to her place. But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really used it after that. I didn't enjoy doing it that way. But it was interesting to know that things worked much differently from how I was brought up. When invited to join the Rogers Commission , which investigated the Challenger disaster , Feynman was hesitant. The nation's capital, he told his wife, was "a great big world of mystery to me, with tremendous forces". During a break in one hearing, Rogers told commission member Neil Armstrong , "Feynman is becoming a pain in the ass. Feynman's account reveals a disconnect between NASA 's engineers and executives that was far more striking than he expected. His interviews of NASA's high-ranking managers revealed startling misunderstandings of elementary concepts. For instance, NASA managers claimed that there was a 1 in , chance of a catastrophic failure aboard the Shuttle, but Feynman discovered that NASA's own engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe at closer to 1 in He warned in his appendix to the commission's report which was included only after he threatened not to sign the report , "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Because of Strauss's actions in stripping Oppenheimer of his security clearance, Feynman was reluctant to accept the award, but cautioned him: "You should never turn a man's generosity as a sword against him. Any virtue that a man has, even if he has many vices, should not be used as a tool against him. In , Feynman sought medical treatment for abdominal pains and was diagnosed with liposarcoma , a rare form of cancer. Surgeons removed a tumor the size of a football that had crushed one kidney and his spleen. Further operations were performed in October and October A ruptured duodenal ulcer caused kidney failure , and he declined to undergo the dialysis that might have prolonged his life for a few months. Watched over by his wife Gweneth, sister Joan, and cousin Frances Lewine , he died on February 15, , at age When Feynman was nearing death, he asked his friend and colleague Danny Hillis why Hillis appeared so sad. Hillis replied that he thought Feynman was going to die soon. Feynman said that this sometimes bothered him, too, adding, when you get to be as old as he was, and have told so many stories to so many people, even when he was dead he would not be completely gone. The letter from the Soviet government authorizing the trip was not received until the day after he died. His daughter Michelle later made the journey. It's so boring. Aspects of Feynman's life have been portrayed in various media. Feynman was portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the biopic Infinity. Feynman is commemorated in various ways. On May 4, , the United States Postal Service issued the "American Scientists" commemorative set of four cent self-adhesive stamps in several configurations. Feynman's stamp, sepia-toned, features a photograph of a something Feynman and eight small Feynman diagrams. In Gates made a video on why he thought Feynman was special. The video was made for the 50th anniversary of Feynman's Nobel Prize, in response to Caltech's request for thoughts on Feynman. The Feynman Lectures on Physics is perhaps his most accessible work for anyone with an interest in physics, compiled from lectures to Caltech undergraduates in — As news of the lectures' lucidity grew, professional physicists and graduate students began to drop in to listen. Co-authors Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands , colleagues of Feynman, edited and illustrated them into book form. The work has endured and is useful to this day. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Feynman disambiguation. American theoretical physicist , U. Los Angeles , California , U. Arline Greenbaum. Mary Louise Bell. Gweneth Howarth. This number actually represents the probability that an electron will absorb a photon. However, physicists have yet to find any link between the number and any other physical law in the universe. It was expected that such an important equation would generate an important number, like one or pi, but this was not the case. In fact, about the only thing that the number relates to at all is the room in which the great physicist Wolfgang Pauli died: room So whenever you think that science has finally discovered everything it possibly can, remember Richard Feynman and the number Bill Riemers writes: classical physics tells us that electrons captured by element as yet undiscovered and unnamed of the periodic table will move at the speed of light. Protons and electrons are bound by interactions with photons. The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Feynman received his doctorate at Princeton University in At Princeton, with his adviser, , he developed an approach to quantum mechanics governed by the principle of least action. This approach replaced the wave-oriented electromagnetic picture developed by James Clerk Maxwell with one based entirely on particle interactions mapped in space and time. At Los Alamos he became the youngest group leader in the theoretical division of the . With the head of that division, , he devised the formula for predicting the energy yield of a nuclear explosive. He observed the first detonation of an atomic bomb on July 16, , near Alamogordo, New , and, though his initial reaction was euphoric, he later felt anxiety about the force he and his colleagues had helped unleash on the world. In the years that followed, his vision of particle interaction kept returning to the forefront of physics as scientists explored esoteric new domains at the subatomic level. In he became professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology Caltech , where he remained the rest of his career. Five particular achievements of Feynman stand out as crucial to the development of modern physics. First, and most important, is his work in correcting the inaccuracies of earlier formulations of quantum electrodynamics, the theory that explains the interactions between electromagnetic radiation photons and charged subatomic particles such as electrons and positrons antielectrons. By Feynman completed this reconstruction of a large part of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics and resolved the meaningless results that the old quantum electrodynamic theory sometimes produced. Second, he introduced simple diagrams, now called Feynman diagrams , that are easily visualized graphic analogues of the complicated mathematical expressions needed to describe the behaviour of systems of interacting particles. This work greatly simplified some of the calculations used to observe and predict such interactions. In the early s Feynman provided a quantum- mechanical explanation for the Soviet physicist Lev D. In he and the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann devised a theory that accounted for most of the phenomena associated with the weak force , which is the force at work in radioactive decay. His purely intellectual reputation became a part of the scenery of modern science. Feynman diagrams, Feynman integrals , and Feynman rules joined Feynman stories in the everyday conversation of physicists. In he began reorganizing and teaching the introductory physics course at Caltech; the result, published as The Feynman Lectures on Physics , 3 vol. When Feynman died in after a long struggle with cancer, his reputation was still mainly confined to the scientific community; his was not a household name. Many Americans had seen him for the first time when, already ill, he served on the presidential commission that investigated the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Home Science Physics Physicists. Print Cite. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. In photosynthesis, where is the chlorophyll; how is it arranged; where are the carotenoids involved in this thing? What is the system of the conversion of light into chemical energy? It is very easy to answer many of these fundamental biological questions; you just look at the thing! You will see the order of bases in the chain; you will see the structure of the microsome. Unfortunately, the present microscope sees at a scale which is just a bit too crude. Make the microscope one hundred times more powerful, and many problems of biology would be made very much easier. I exaggerate, of course, but the biologists would surely be very thankful to you — and they would prefer that to the criticism that they should use more mathematics. The theory of chemical processes today is based on theoretical physics. In this sense, physics supplies the foundation of chemistry. But chemistry also has analysis. If you have a strange substance and you want to know what it is, you go through a long and complicated process of chemical analysis. You can analyze almost anything today, so I am a little late with my idea. But if the physicists wanted to, they could also dig under the chemists in the problem of chemical analysis. It would be very easy to make an analysis of any complicated chemical substance; all one would have to do would be to look at it and see where the atoms are. The only trouble is that the electron microscope is one hundred times too poor. Later, I would like to ask the question: Can the physicists do something about the third problem of chemistry — namely, synthesis? Is there a physical way to synthesize any chemical substance? And I know that there are theorems which prove that it is impossible, with axially symmetrical stationary field lenses, to produce an f-value any bigger than so and so; and therefore the resolving power at the present time is at its theoretical maximum. But in every theorem there are assumptions. Why must the field be symmetrical? I put this out as a challenge: Is there no way to make the electron microscope more powerful? The biological example of writing information on a small scale has inspired me to think of something that should be possible. Biology is not simply writing information; it is doing something about it. A biological system can be exceedingly small. Many of the cells are very tiny, but they are very active; they manufacture various substances; they walk around; they wiggle; and they do all kinds of marvelous things — all on a very small scale. Also, they store information. Consider the possibility that we too can make a thing very small which does what we want — that we can manufacture an object that maneuvers at that level! There may even be an economic point to this business of making things very small. Let me remind you of some of the problems of computing machines. In computers we have to store an enormous amount of information. The kind of writing that I was mentioning before, in which I had everything down as a distribution of metal, is permanent. Much more interesting to a computer is a way of writing, erasing, and writing something else. For instance, the wires should be 10 or atoms in diameter, and the circuits should be a few thousand angstroms across. Everybody who has analyzed the logical theory of computers has come to the conclusion that the possibilities of computers are very interesting — if they could be made to be more complicated by several orders of magnitude. If they had millions of times as many elements, they could make judgments. They would have time to calculate what is the best way to make the calculation that they are about to make. They could select the method of analysis which, from their experience, is better than the one that we would give to them. And in many other ways, they would have new qualitative features. If I look at your face I immediately recognize that I have seen it before. Actually, my friends will say I have chosen an unfortunate example here for the subject of this illustration. At least I recognize that it is a man and not an apple. Yet there is no machine which, with that speed, can take a picture of a face and say even that it is a man; and much less that it is the same man that you showed it before — unless it is exactly the same picture. If the face is changed; if I am closer to the face; if I am further from the face; if the light changes — I recognize it anyway. Now, this little computer I carry in my head is easily able to do that. The computers that we build are not able to do that. But our mechanical computers are too big; the elements in this box are microscopic. I want to make some that are submicroscopic. If we wanted to make a computer that had all these marvelous extra qualitative abilities, we would have to make it, perhaps, the size of the Pentagon. This has several disadvantages. First, it requires too much material; there may not be enough germanium in the world for all the transistors which would have to be put into this enormous thing. There is also the problem of heat generation and power consumption; TVA would be needed to run the computer. But an even more practical difficulty is that the computer would be limited to a certain speed. Because of its large size, there is finite time required to get the information from one place to another. The information cannot go any faster than the speed of light — so, ultimately, when our computers get faster and faster and more and more elaborate, we will have to make them smaller and smaller. But there is plenty of room to make them smaller. There is nothing that I can see in the physical laws that says the computer elements cannot be made enormously smaller than they are now. In fact, there may be certain advantages. How can we make such a device? What kind of manufacturing processes would we use? One possibility we might consider, since we have talked about writing by putting atoms down in a certain arrangement, would be to evaporate the material, then evaporate the insulator next to it. Then, for the next layer, evaporate another position of a wire, another insulator, and so on. But I would like to discuss, just for amusement, that there are other possibilities. What are the limitations as to how small a thing has to be before you can no longer mold it? What are the possibilities of small but movable machines? They may or may not be useful, but they surely would be fun to make. Consider any machine — for example, an automobile — and ask about the problems of making an infinitesimal machine like it. Obviously, if you redesign the car so that it would work with a much larger tolerance, which is not at all impossible, then you could make a much smaller device. It is interesting to consider what the problems are in such small machines. Firstly, with parts stressed to the same degree, the forces go as the area you are reducing, so that things like weight and inertia are of relatively no importance. The strength of material, in other words, is very much greater in proportion. The stresses and expansion of the flywheel from centrifugal force, for example, would be the same proportion only if the rotational speed is increased in the same proportion as we decrease the size. On the other hand, the metals that we use have a grain structure, and this would be very annoying at small scale because the material is not homogeneous. Plastics and glass and things of this amorphous nature are very much more homogeneous, and so we would have to make our machines out of such materials. There are problems associated with the electrical part of the system — with the copper wires and the magnetic parts. A big magnet made of millions of domains can only be made on a small scale with one domain. Lubrication involves some interesting points. The effective viscosity of oil would be higher and higher in proportion as we went down and if we increase the speed as much as we can. But actually we may not have to lubricate at all! We have a lot of extra force. This rapid heat loss would prevent the gasoline from exploding, so an internal combustion engine is impossible. Other chemical reactions, liberating energy when cold, can be used. Probably an external supply of electrical power would be most convenient for such small machines. What would be the utility of such machines? Who knows? However, we did note the possibility of the manufacture of small elements for computers in completely automatic factories, containing lathes and other machine tools at the very small level. The small lathe would not have to be exactly like our big lathe. I leave to your imagination the improvement of the design to take full advantage of the properties of things on a small scale, and in such a way that the fully automatic aspect would be easiest to manage. A friend of mine Albert R. Hibbs suggests a very interesting possibility for relatively small machines. He says that, although it is a very wild idea, it would be interesting in surgery if you could swallow the surgeon. Of course the information has to be fed out. It finds out which valve is the faulty one and takes a little knife and slices it out. Other small machines might be permanently incorporated in the body to assist some inadequately-functioning organ. Now comes the interesting question: How do we make such a tiny mechanism? I leave that to you. However, let me suggest one weird possibility. When you turn the levers, they turn a servo motor, and it changes the electrical currents in the wires, which repositions a motor at the other end. Now, I want to build much the same device — a master-slave system which operates electrically. So you have a scheme by which you can do things at one- quarter scale anyway — the little servo motors with little hands play with little nuts and bolts; they drill little holes; they are four times smaller. So I manufacture a quarter-size lathe; I manufacture quarter-size tools; and I make, at the one-quarter scale, still another set of hands again relatively one-quarter size! This is one-sixteenth size, from my point of view. And after I finish doing this I wire directly from my large-scale system, through transformers perhaps, to the one-sixteenth-size servo motors. Thus I can now manipulate the one-sixteenth size hands. Well, you get the principle from there on. It is rather a difficult program, but it is a possibility. You might say that one can go much farther in one step than from one to four. Of course, this has all to be designed very carefully and it is not necessary simply to make it like hands. If you thought of it very carefully, you could probably arrive at a much better system for doing such things. If you work through a pantograph, even today, you can get much more than a factor of four in even one step. The end of the pantograph wiggles with a relatively greater irregularity than the irregularity with which you move your hands. At each stage, it is necessary to improve the precision of the apparatus. If, for instance, having made a small lathe with a pantograph, we find its lead screw irregular — more irregular than the large-scale one — we could lap the lead screw against breakable nuts that you can reverse in the usual way back and forth until this lead screw is, at its scale, as accurate as our original lead screws, at our scale. We can make flats by rubbing unflat surfaces in triplicates together — in three pairs — and the flats then become flatter than the thing you started with. Thus, it is not impossible to improve precision on a small scale by the correct operations. So, when we build this stuff, it is necessary at each step to improve the accuracy of the equipment by working for awhile down there, making accurate lead screws, Johansen blocks, and all the other materials which we use in accurate machine work at the higher level. We have to stop at each level and manufacture all the stuff to go to the next level — a very long and very difficult program. Perhaps you can figure a better way than that to get down to small scale more rapidly. Yet, after all this, you have just got one little baby lathe four thousand times smaller than usual. But we were thinking of making an enormous computer, which we were going to build by drilling holes on this lathe to make little washers for the computer. How many washers can you manufacture on this one lathe? Where am I going to put the million lathes that I am going to have? Why, there is nothing to it; the volume is much less than that of even one full-scale lathe. So I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously, drilling holes, stamping parts, and so on. As we go down in size, there are a number of interesting problems that arise. All things do not simply scale down in proportion. There is the problem that materials stick together by the molecular Van der Waals attractions. It would be like those old movies of a man with his hands full of molasses, trying to get rid of a glass of water. There will be several problems of this nature that we will have to be ready to design for. But I am not afraid to consider the final question as to whether, ultimately — in the great future — we can arrange the atoms the way we want; the very atoms, all the way down! Up to now, we have been content to dig in the ground to find minerals. We heat them and we do things on a large scale with them, and we hope to get a pure substance with just so much impurity, and so on. Feynman diagram - Wikipedia

Feynman's Notes. Original Course Handouts For comments or questions about this edition please contact Michael Gottlieb. Photographs by Tom Harvey. We wish to thank. Carver Mead, for his warm encouragement and generous financial support, without which this edition would have been impossible,. Adam Cochran, for tying up the many slippery loose ends that needed to come together in order for this edition to be realized,. As a student or someone interested in lifelong learning , there are many things competing for your attention. These can become major distractions whenever you need to concentrate. Fortunately, there are numerous learning tools that are proven to be effective in boosting your ability to fully comprehend your lessons. One such strategy that helps students understand lessons without having to slave over highly technical material is the Feynman Technique. 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Doing this will also help you recognize your problem areas or areas of confusion, because this will be where you either get stuck when explaining the concept or where you have to resort to using complex terminology. The Feynman Technique is the perfect strategy for learning something new, deepening your understanding of a concept, enhancing your recall of certain ideas, or reviewing for tests. This mental model was named after the Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who was recognized as someone who could clearly explain complex topics in a way that everybody—even those without degrees in the sciences—could understand. He was able to take the mystery out of complex scientific principles. While studying at Princeton, Feynman began recording and connecting the information he knew with the things that he either didn't know or didn't understand. In the end, he had a complete notebook of topics and subjects that he had disassembled, translated, reassembled, and written down in simple terms. Anyone can use this technique to:. This learning strategy is effective for quickly learning both technical and non-technical concepts, and is summarized in four succinct steps. There are several benefits to using this learning technique. First, it helps you gain a complete understanding of what you're learning. Once you fully understand the information at hand, you are better equipped to make informed and intelligent decisions regarding the subject. Taking this one step further, you can use the Feynman Technique if you are struggling with the tough subject matter, which is one of the largest obstacles to learning. Using the Feynman Technique allows you to apply the concepts that you learn to real-world problems because you are able to grasp the concepts and processes of complex ideas. It also helps to improve your teaching skills, as you use this technique to essentially teach yourself the fundamentals of a subject. This also increases your capacity to use critical thinking skills about a topic. Feynman did not prefer to write his knowledge down on paper as many scientists do. Instead, he used verbal communication as the foundation for the majority of his published works. He preferred to dictate his books and memoirs, and the scientific papers that are credited to him were transcribed from his lectures. Feynman relied heavily on verbal communication, such as when he used cartoonish diagrams to explain highly scientific principles. Feynman could easily tap into complex ideas using shapes, lines, and drawings. This method helped him strip away the confusing language and permitted the power of storytelling to take precedence. After choosing the concept, write down everything that you already know about the subject in your paper. Think of every small piece of information that you can recall about the subject or have learned in the past. Keep this sheet handy to continue to write down what you learn. Explain the concept using your own words, pretending that you are teaching it to someone else. Make sure that you use plain, simple language, without limiting your teaching to simply stating a definition. Put yourself up to the challenge of explaining an example or two of the subject to make sure that you can apply the concept to real life. The second order perturbation term in the S - matrix is. The Wick's expansion of the integrand gives among others the following term. This term is represented by the Feynman diagram at the right. This diagram gives contributions to the following processes:. In a path integral , the field Lagrangian, integrated over all possible field histories, defines the probability amplitude to go from one field configuration to another. In order to make sense, the field theory should have a well-defined ground state , and the integral should be performed a little bit rotated into imaginary time, i. The path integral formalism is completely equivalent to the canonical operator formalism above. A simple example is the free relativistic scalar field in d dimensions, whose action integral is:. This is the field-to-field transition amplitude. The path integral can be thought of as analogous to a probability distribution, and it is convenient to define it so that multiplying by a constant doesn't change anything:. The normalization factor on the bottom is called the partition function for the field, and it coincides with the statistical mechanical partition function at zero temperature when rotated into imaginary time. The initial-to-final amplitudes are ill-defined if one thinks of the continuum limit right from the beginning, because the fluctuations in the field can become unbounded. If the final results do not depend on the shape of the lattice or the value of a , then the continuum limit exists. On a lattice, i , the field can be expanded in Fourier modes :. Sometimes, instead of a lattice, the field modes are just cut off at high values of k instead. It is also convenient from time to time to consider the space-time volume to be finite, so that the k modes are also a lattice. This is not strictly as necessary as the space-lattice limit, because interactions in k are not localized, but it is convenient for keeping track of the factors in front of the k -integrals and the momentum-conserving delta functions that will arise. Now we have the continuum Fourier transform of the original action. The Fourier transform avoids double-counting, so that it can be written:. When you change coordinates in a multidimensional integral by a linear transformation, the value of the new integral is given by the determinant of the transformation matrix. On a finite volume lattice, the determinant is nonzero and independent of the field values. The factor d d k is the infinitesimal volume of a discrete cell in k -space, in a square lattice box. Each separate factor is an oscillatory Gaussian, and the width of the Gaussian diverges as the volume goes to infinity. In imaginary time, the Euclidean action becomes positive definite, and can be interpreted as a probability distribution. The expectation value of the field is the statistical expectation value of the field when chosen according to the probability distribution:. The path integral defines a probabilistic algorithm to generate a Euclidean scalar field configuration. To find any correlation function, generate a field again and again by this procedure, and find the statistical average:. The Euclidean correlation function is just the same as the correlation function in statistics or statistical mechanics. The quantum mechanical correlation functions are an analytic continuation of the Euclidean correlation functions. For free fields with a quadratic action, the probability distribution is a high-dimensional Gaussian, and the statistical average is given by an explicit formula. But the Monte Carlo method also works well for bosonic interacting field theories where there is no closed form for the correlation functions. Each mode is independently Gaussian distributed. The expectation of field modes is easy to calculate:. In the infinite volume limit,. The form of the propagator can be more easily found by using the equation of motion for the field. From the Lagrangian, the equation of motion is:. Where the derivatives act on x , and the identity is true everywhere except when x and y coincide, and the operator order matters. The form of the singularity can be understood from the canonical commutation relations to be a delta-function. If the equations of motion are linear, the propagator will always be the reciprocal of the quadratic-form matrix that defines the free Lagrangian, since this gives the equations of motion. This is also easy to see directly from the path integral. The factor of i disappears in the Euclidean theory. Because each field mode is an independent Gaussian, the expectation values for the product of many field modes obeys Wick's theorem :. For example,. An interpretation of Wick's theorem is that each field insertion can be thought of as a dangling line, and the expectation value is calculated by linking up the lines in pairs, putting a delta function factor that ensures that the momentum of each partner in the pair is equal, and dividing by the propagator. There is a subtle point left before Wick's theorem is proved—what if more than two of the phis have the same momentum? If it's an odd number, the integral is zero; negative values cancel with the positive values. But if the number is even, the integral is positive. The previous demonstration assumed that the phis would only match up in pairs. If Wick's theorem were correct, the higher moments would be given by all possible pairings of a list of 2 n different x :. This means that Wick's theorem, uncorrected, says that the expectation value of x 2 n should be:. So Wick's theorem holds no matter how many of the momenta of the internal variables coincide. Interactions are represented by higher order contributions, since quadratic contributions are always Gaussian. The simplest interaction is the quartic self-interaction, with an action:. The reason for the combinatorial factor 4! Writing the action in terms of the lattice or continuum Fourier modes:. Where S F is the free action, whose correlation functions are given by Wick's theorem. The path integral for the interacting action is then a power series of corrections to the free action. The half-lines meet at a vertex, which contributes a delta-function that ensures that the sum of the momenta are all equal. To compute a correlation function in the interacting theory, there is a contribution from the X terms now. For example, the path-integral for the four-field correlator:. The insertions should also be thought of as half-lines, four in this case, which carry a momentum k , but one that is not integrated. The new contribution is equal to:. The 4! Each of these different ways of matching the half-lines together in pairs contributes exactly once, regardless of the values of k 1,2,3,4 , by Wick's theorem. The expansion of the action in powers of X gives a series of terms with progressively higher number of X s. The contribution from the term with exactly n X s is called n th order. By Wick's theorem, each pair of half-lines must be paired together to make a line , and this line gives a factor of. This means that the two half-lines that make a line are forced to have equal and opposite momentum. The line itself should be labelled by an arrow, drawn parallel to the line, and labeled by the momentum in the line k. If one of the two half-lines is external, this kills the integral over the internal k , since it forces the internal k to be equal to the external k. If both are internal, the integral over k remains. The diagrams that are formed by linking the half-lines in the X s with the external half-lines, representing insertions, are the Feynman diagrams of this theory. If it is internal, it is integrated over. At each vertex, the total incoming k is equal to the total outgoing k. The number of ways of making a diagram by joining half-lines into lines almost completely cancels the factorial factors coming from the Taylor series of the exponential and the 4! A forest diagram is one where all the internal lines have momentum that is completely determined by the external lines and the condition that the incoming and outgoing momentum are equal at each vertex. The contribution of these diagrams is a product of propagators, without any integration. A tree diagram is a connected forest diagram. An example of a tree diagram is the one where each of four external lines end on an X. Another is when three external lines end on an X , and the remaining half-line joins up with another X , and the remaining half-lines of this X run off to external lines. These are all also forest diagrams as every tree is a forest ; an example of a forest that is not a tree is when eight external lines end on two X s. It is easy to verify that in all these cases, the momenta on all the internal lines is determined by the external momenta and the condition of momentum conservation in each vertex. A diagram that is not a forest diagram is called a loop diagram, and an example is one where two lines of an X are joined to external lines, while the remaining two lines are joined to each other. The two lines joined to each other can have any momentum at all, since they both enter and leave the same vertex. A more complicated example is one where two X s are joined to each other by matching the legs one to the other. This diagram has no external lines at all. The reason loop diagrams are called loop diagrams is because the number of k -integrals that are left undetermined by momentum conservation is equal to the number of independent closed loops in the diagram, where independent loops are counted as in homology theory. The homology is real-valued actually R d valued , the value associated with each line is the momentum. The boundary operator takes each line to the sum of the end-vertices with a positive sign at the head and a negative sign at the tail. The condition that the momentum is conserved is exactly the condition that the boundary of the k -valued weighted graph is zero. A set of valid k -values can be arbitrarily redefined whenever there is a closed loop. A closed loop is a cyclical path of adjacent vertices that never revisits the same vertex. Such a cycle can be thought of as the boundary of a hypothetical 2-cell. The k -labellings of a graph that conserve momentum i. The number of independent momenta that are not determined is then equal to the number of independent homology loops. For many graphs, this is equal to the number of loops as counted in the most intuitive way. The number of ways to form a given Feynman diagram by joining together half-lines is large, and by Wick's theorem, each way of pairing up the half-lines contributes equally. Often, this completely cancels the factorials in the denominator of each term, but the cancellation is sometimes incomplete. The uncancelled denominator is called the symmetry factor of the diagram. The contribution of each diagram to the correlation function must be divided by its symmetry factor. For example, consider the Feynman diagram formed from two external lines joined to one X , and the remaining two half-lines in the X joined to each other. The X comes divided by 4! For another example, consider the diagram formed by joining all the half-lines of one X to all the half-lines of another X. This diagram is called a vacuum bubble , because it does not link up to any external lines. There are 4! The contribution is multiplied by 4! Another example is the Feynman diagram formed from two X s where each X links up to two external lines, and the remaining two half-lines of each X are joined to each other. The total symmetry factor is 2, and the contribution of this diagram is divided by 2. The symmetry factor theorem gives the symmetry factor for a general diagram: the contribution of each Feynman diagram must be divided by the order of its group of automorphisms, the number of symmetries that it has. An automorphism of a Feynman graph is a permutation M of the lines and a permutation N of the vertices with the following properties:. This theorem has an interpretation in terms of particle-paths: when identical particles are present, the integral over all intermediate particles must not double-count states that differ only by interchanging identical particles. Proof: To prove this theorem, label all the internal and external lines of a diagram with a unique name. Then form the diagram by linking a half-line to a name and then to the other half line. Now count the number of ways to form the named diagram. Each permutation of the X s gives a different pattern of linking names to half-lines, and this is a factor of n! Each permutation of the half-lines in a single X gives a factor of 4!. So a named diagram can be formed in exactly as many ways as the denominator of the Feynman expansion. But the number of unnamed diagrams is smaller than the number of named diagram by the order of the automorphism group of the graph. Roughly speaking, a Feynman diagram is called connected if all vertices and propagator lines are linked by a sequence of vertices and propagators of the diagram itself. If one views it as an undirected graph it is connected.

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But if the number is even, the integral is positive. The previous demonstration assumed that the phis would only match up in pairs. If Wick's theorem were correct, the higher moments would be given by all possible pairings of a list of 2 n different x :. This means that Wick's theorem, uncorrected, says that the expectation value of x 2 n should be:. So Wick's theorem holds no matter how many of the momenta of the internal variables coincide. Interactions are represented by higher order contributions, since quadratic contributions are always Gaussian. The simplest interaction is the quartic self-interaction, with an action:. The reason for the combinatorial factor 4! Writing the action in terms of the lattice or continuum Fourier modes:. Where S F is the free action, whose correlation functions are given by Wick's theorem. The path integral for the interacting action is then a power series of corrections to the free action. The half-lines meet at a vertex, which contributes a delta-function that ensures that the sum of the momenta are all equal. To compute a correlation function in the interacting theory, there is a contribution from the X terms now. For example, the path-integral for the four-field correlator:. The insertions should also be thought of as half-lines, four in this case, which carry a momentum k , but one that is not integrated. The new contribution is equal to:. The 4! Each of these different ways of matching the half-lines together in pairs contributes exactly once, regardless of the values of k 1,2,3,4 , by Wick's theorem. The expansion of the action in powers of X gives a series of terms with progressively higher number of X s. The contribution from the term with exactly n X s is called n th order. By Wick's theorem, each pair of half-lines must be paired together to make a line , and this line gives a factor of. This means that the two half-lines that make a line are forced to have equal and opposite momentum. The line itself should be labelled by an arrow, drawn parallel to the line, and labeled by the momentum in the line k. If one of the two half-lines is external, this kills the integral over the internal k , since it forces the internal k to be equal to the external k. If both are internal, the integral over k remains. The diagrams that are formed by linking the half-lines in the X s with the external half-lines, representing insertions, are the Feynman diagrams of this theory. If it is internal, it is integrated over. At each vertex, the total incoming k is equal to the total outgoing k. The number of ways of making a diagram by joining half-lines into lines almost completely cancels the factorial factors coming from the Taylor series of the exponential and the 4! A forest diagram is one where all the internal lines have momentum that is completely determined by the external lines and the condition that the incoming and outgoing momentum are equal at each vertex. The contribution of these diagrams is a product of propagators, without any integration. A tree diagram is a connected forest diagram. An example of a tree diagram is the one where each of four external lines end on an X. Another is when three external lines end on an X , and the remaining half-line joins up with another X , and the remaining half-lines of this X run off to external lines. These are all also forest diagrams as every tree is a forest ; an example of a forest that is not a tree is when eight external lines end on two X s. It is easy to verify that in all these cases, the momenta on all the internal lines is determined by the external momenta and the condition of momentum conservation in each vertex. A diagram that is not a forest diagram is called a loop diagram, and an example is one where two lines of an X are joined to external lines, while the remaining two lines are joined to each other. The two lines joined to each other can have any momentum at all, since they both enter and leave the same vertex. A more complicated example is one where two X s are joined to each other by matching the legs one to the other. This diagram has no external lines at all. The reason loop diagrams are called loop diagrams is because the number of k -integrals that are left undetermined by momentum conservation is equal to the number of independent closed loops in the diagram, where independent loops are counted as in homology theory. The homology is real-valued actually R d valued , the value associated with each line is the momentum. The boundary operator takes each line to the sum of the end-vertices with a positive sign at the head and a negative sign at the tail. The condition that the momentum is conserved is exactly the condition that the boundary of the k -valued weighted graph is zero. A set of valid k -values can be arbitrarily redefined whenever there is a closed loop. A closed loop is a cyclical path of adjacent vertices that never revisits the same vertex. Such a cycle can be thought of as the boundary of a hypothetical 2-cell. The k -labellings of a graph that conserve momentum i. The number of independent momenta that are not determined is then equal to the number of independent homology loops. For many graphs, this is equal to the number of loops as counted in the most intuitive way. The number of ways to form a given Feynman diagram by joining together half-lines is large, and by Wick's theorem, each way of pairing up the half-lines contributes equally. Often, this completely cancels the factorials in the denominator of each term, but the cancellation is sometimes incomplete. The uncancelled denominator is called the symmetry factor of the diagram. The contribution of each diagram to the correlation function must be divided by its symmetry factor. For example, consider the Feynman diagram formed from two external lines joined to one X , and the remaining two half-lines in the X joined to each other. The X comes divided by 4! For another example, consider the diagram formed by joining all the half-lines of one X to all the half-lines of another X. This diagram is called a vacuum bubble , because it does not link up to any external lines. There are 4! The contribution is multiplied by 4! Another example is the Feynman diagram formed from two X s where each X links up to two external lines, and the remaining two half-lines of each X are joined to each other. The total symmetry factor is 2, and the contribution of this diagram is divided by 2. The symmetry factor theorem gives the symmetry factor for a general diagram: the contribution of each Feynman diagram must be divided by the order of its group of automorphisms, the number of symmetries that it has. An automorphism of a Feynman graph is a permutation M of the lines and a permutation N of the vertices with the following properties:. This theorem has an interpretation in terms of particle-paths: when identical particles are present, the integral over all intermediate particles must not double-count states that differ only by interchanging identical particles. Proof: To prove this theorem, label all the internal and external lines of a diagram with a unique name. Then form the diagram by linking a half-line to a name and then to the other half line. Now count the number of ways to form the named diagram. Each permutation of the X s gives a different pattern of linking names to half-lines, and this is a factor of n! Each permutation of the half-lines in a single X gives a factor of 4!. So a named diagram can be formed in exactly as many ways as the denominator of the Feynman expansion. But the number of unnamed diagrams is smaller than the number of named diagram by the order of the automorphism group of the graph. Roughly speaking, a Feynman diagram is called connected if all vertices and propagator lines are linked by a sequence of vertices and propagators of the diagram itself. If one views it as an undirected graph it is connected. The remarkable relevance of such diagrams in QFTs is due to the fact that they are sufficient to determine the quantum partition function Z [ J ]. More precisely, connected Feynman diagrams determine. If one encounters n i identical copies of a component C i within the Feynman diagram D k one has to include a symmetry factor n i! However, in the end each contribution of a Feynman diagram D k to the partition function has the generic form. A scheme to successively create such contributions from the D k to Z [ J ] is obtained by. An immediate consequence of the linked-cluster theorem is that all vacuum bubbles, diagrams without external lines, cancel when calculating correlation functions. A correlation function is given by a ratio of path-integrals:. The top is the sum over all Feynman diagrams, including disconnected diagrams that do not link up to external lines at all. In terms of the connected diagrams, the numerator includes the same contributions of vacuum bubbles as the denominator:. Where the sum over E diagrams includes only those diagrams each of whose connected components end on at least one external line. The vacuum bubbles are the same whatever the external lines, and give an overall multiplicative factor. The denominator is the sum over all vacuum bubbles, and dividing gets rid of the second factor. The vacuum bubbles then are only useful for determining Z itself, which from the definition of the path integral is equal to:. In finite volume, this factor can be identified as the total volume of space time. Dividing by the volume, the remaining integral for the vacuum bubble has an interpretation: it is a contribution to the energy density of the vacuum. Correlation functions are the sum of the connected Feynman diagrams, but the formalism treats the connected and disconnected diagrams differently. Internal lines end on vertices, while external lines go off to insertions. Introducing sources unifies the formalism, by making new vertices where one line can end. Sources are external fields, fields that contribute to the action, but are not dynamical variables. A scalar field source is another scalar field h that contributes a term to the Lorentz Lagrangian:. In the Feynman expansion, this contributes H terms with one half-line ending on a vertex. Lines in a Feynman diagram can now end either on an X vertex, or on an H vertex, and only one line enters an H vertex. The Feynman rule for an H vertex is that a line from an H with momentum k gets a factor of h k. The sum of the connected diagrams in the presence of sources includes a term for each connected diagram in the absence of sources, except now the diagrams can end on the source. The sum is over all connected diagrams, as before. The field h is not dynamical, which means that there is no path integral over h : h is just a parameter in the Lagrangian, which varies from point to point. The path integral for the field is:. One way to interpret this expression is that it is taking the Fourier transform in field space. If there is a probability density on R n , the Fourier transform of the probability density is:. The Fourier transform is the expectation of an oscillatory exponential. The path integral in the presence of a source h x is:. The Fourier transform of a delta-function is a constant, which gives a formal expression for a delta function:. This tells you what a field delta function looks like in a path-integral. This expression is useful for formally changing field coordinates in the path integral, much as a delta function is used to change coordinates in an ordinary multi-dimensional integral. The partition function is now a function of the field h , and the physical partition function is the value when h is the zero function:. In Euclidean space, source contributions to the action can still appear with a factor of i , so that they still do a Fourier transform. The field path integral can be extended to the Fermi case, but only if the notion of integration is expanded. A Grassmann integral of a free Fermi field is a high-dimensional determinant or Pfaffian , which defines the new type of Gaussian integration appropriate for Fermi fields. This is exactly analogous to the bosonic path integration formula for a Gaussian integral of a complex bosonic field:. So that the propagator is the inverse of the matrix in the quadratic part of the action in both the Bose and Fermi case. For real Grassmann fields, for Majorana fermions , the path integral a Pfaffian times a source quadratic form, and the formulas give the square root of the determinant, just as they do for real Bosonic fields. The propagator is still the inverse of the quadratic part. By using the spatial Fourier transform of the Dirac field as a new basis for the Grassmann algebra, the quadratic part of the Dirac action becomes simple to invert:. This is the Grassmann analog of the higher Gaussian moments that completed the Bosonic Wick's theorem earlier. If there are an odd number of Fermi loops, the diagram changes sign. He discovered it after a long process of trial and error, since he lacked a proper theory of Grassmann integration. Print Cite. 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