Half a dozen pretty fundamental pieces; entertaining too.

As I said in my Goodreads review of Feynman's Six Easy Pieces: "_Everybody_ can (and should) read these selections from the Feynman lectures..."

To that end I have constructed the book here as links to the newly-released online edition (except for a preface and introduction). The numbers in this TOC refer to the original lecture volume, chapter, and subject.

Why? To quote Feynman's Epilogue: ".. the main purpose of my teaching has not been to prepare you for some examination—it was not even to prepare you to serve industry or the military. I wanted most to give you some appreciation of the wonderful world and the physicist's way of looking at it, which, I believe, is a major part of the true culture of modern times. (There are probably professors of other subjects who would object, but I believe that they are completely wrong.).

Perhaps you will not only have some appreciation of this culture; it is even possible that you may want to join in the greatest adventure that the human mind has ever begun."

The "Six Easy Pieces"* in The Feynman Lectures on Physics
*of 111

Introduction by Paul Davies (not available at Caltech, but you can read it in the Google Book)
Special Preface (same as above, just keep reading), but Caltech has made available the Preface to the New Millenium Edition
Feynman's Preface

Volume I
Chapter 1. Atoms in Motion

1-1 Introduction

1-2 Matter is made of atoms

1-3 Atomic processes

1-4 Chemical reactions

Chapter 2. Basic Physics

2-1 Introduction

2-2 Physics before 1920

2-3 Quantum physics

2-4 Nuclei and particles

Chapter 3. The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences