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A collection of articles previously published in the American Journal of Physics and in The Physics Teacher

Articles by Feynman

What Is Science by Richard P. Feynman
The Physics Teacher Volume 7, 313 (1969); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2351388

Symmetry in Physical Laws by Richard P. Feynman
The Physics Teacher Volume 4, 161 (1966); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2350961

The Special Theory of Relativity by Richard P. Feynman
The Physics Teacher Volume 2, 151 (1964); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2350764

The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences by Richard P. Feynman
The Physics Teacher Volume 2, 111 (1964); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2350747

Articles about Feynman’s work

Feynman’s wobbling plate by Slavomir Tuleja, Boris Gazovic, Alexander Tomori, and Jozef Hanc
American Journal of Physics Volume 75, 240 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2402156

‘It Has to Go Down a Little, in Order to Go Around’ — Revisiting Feynman on the Gyroscope by Svilen Kostov, and Daniel Hammer
The Physics Teacher Volume 49, 216 (2011); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3566029

Feynman path integral and gauge invariance by Donald H. Kobe
American Journal of Physics Volume 48, 456 (1980); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.12313

Feynman’s derivation of the Schrödinger equation by David Derbes
American Journal of Physics Volume 64, 881 (1996); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18114

Three methods for calculating the Feynman propagator by F. A. Barone, H. Boschi-Filho, and C. Farina
American Journal of Physics Volume 71, 483 (2003); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1538573

Using Feynman diagrams to solve the classical harmonic oscillator by Alan Thorndike
American Journal of Physics Volume 68, 155 (2000); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19388

Feynman’s proof of the Maxwell equations by Freeman J. Dyson
American Journal of Physics Volume 58, 209 (1990); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16188

Teaching Basic Quantum Mechanics in Secondary School Using Concepts of Feynman Path Integrals Method by María de los Ángeles Fanaro, María Rita Otero, and Marcelo Arlego
The Physics Teacher Volume 50, 156 (2012); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3685112

On Feynman’s analysis of the geometry of Keplerian orbits by Michael Kowen, and H. Mathur
American Journal of Physics Volume 71, 397 (2003); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1527029

On Feynman’s proof of the Maxwell equations by Richard J. Hughes
American Journal of Physics Volume 60, 301 (1992); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16921

Illustrative example of Feynman’s rest of the universe by D. Han, Y. S. Kim, and Marilyn E. Noz
American Journal of Physics Volume 67, 61 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19192