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I think even Feynman would admit this is not the case, he had no simple way of explaining magnetism because it is inherently complicated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

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Though, he had a point, that magnetism is difficult, he explained thoroughly and clearly where's the problem.

I do not know how R. Feynman's university lectures sound like, but his popular lectures seem to follow a pattern, of giving casual situation and using that situation to pull a listener, as well as himself, into explaining something with an analogy.

I liked that R. Feynman explained knowledge as 'a framework that allows something to be true', and not everything can be explained by using 'common knowledge framework' and you need to understand some more details.

The lectures that were put together into the Feynman Lectures on Physics were fabulous. I believe they actually originally thought the audio was lost, but later someone found a bunch of tape reels in storage. The audio is heavily distorted, but a lot of work was done to restore them. I highly recommend anyone with an interest in physics listen to them while reading along in the book. It feels close to actually being in class. He was an exceptionally good teacher.

>I do not know how R. Feynman's university lectures sound like

Enjoy. You might also find the audio in mp3/ogg/etc format.

  Video http://www.feynmanphysicslectures.com/
  YT https://www.youtube.com/user/FeynmanVideoLectures
  Another video source http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/
  Text http://www.feynmanlectures.info/
  Links to more stuff http://www.feynmanlectures.info/links.html

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