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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 530 EAN: 9780201021158 Edition: Student's Guide ISBN: 0201021153 Label: Addison Wesley Longman Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Longman Number Of Items: 3 Number Of Pages: 1552 Publication Date: 1970-06 Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Studio: Addison Wesley Longman |
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  - Classic text -- spring for the hardcover if you want yours to lastThese lectures are beautiful and imaginative beyond belief. They are better enjoyed by someone who already understands the basics of the material. WARNING: my paperback copies fell apart very quickly. The binding is of exceedingly low quality. Buy the hardback version, which seems to hold together much better. Rating:  - For the love of physics ...Here's the deal. If ya wanna do this whole physics thing vanilla-style, go buy and read a nice physics textbook. If you want to taste physics - really take it in, like a delicious chocolate mousse or a symphony orchestra or Shakespeare done by British folk, this is where you have to be. If you have the resources, the best way to really dive in is to listen to the actual lectures and use these great sets of books as a resource as you go along - and then to take it all in again afterwards (and the books clean up the mistakes here and there in the lectures). I am not a scientist nor an engineer, I just like to learn stuff from the best and this is the best. When my wife asks me why I am laughing to a man in the 1960's lecturing about "the characteristics of forces" (Volume 1, Chapt. 12), it is truly an inside joke that cannot be explained, but instead must be experienced. Textbook vs. Laurence Olivier, ... the choice was simple for me, and I will never be the same. Rating: - feynman lectures on physicsI ordered this set of books for my son, therefore, I am unable to review the product. However, the books arrived a couple of days after they were expected. Rating:  - P-rnoPhysics (based mostly on Volume II)Feyman is the p-rno king of physics. And here's 5 reasons why. First, Feynman's communication and lecture style can only be described as NAKED: all academic pretensions are stripped down and shuffled off. Second, the expected chalk-board room missionary position (top-down institutional power and bottom-up passive acceptance) is often dispensed with and then replaced with what I can only describe as kama-sutra-like methods and techniques (Feyman leverages components of top-down know-how and bottom-up personal power with awe-inspiring ease). Third, Feyman never fools around with the daytime-softcore-soap torsoshot: nope, he gives us all the ins-and-outs--from magnetism as relativistic effect to what he terms "the principle of least action." Fourth, Feyman actually has two wing-men, Sands of Stanford and Leighton also of Caltech, to make absolutely sure that all the subject's needs are fully taken care of. Fifth, there are actually no problems included for the reader or listener to solve: just like with a p-rno, there's no real girl for the audience. This fifth one is a crime! There were problems given to Cal tech students originally. These should be added to the printed lectures. That's why I can only give this book 3 stars. I love Feynman and all his material (his later books such as QED show a definite improvement in style; due to a greater maturity probably). Without the problems and worked out solutions, well...let's just say that the editors really suck. Rating: - It worthsThe collection is one of the best books available for basic physics nowadays. The commemorative issue is even better. Indispensable for physicists and students with interests in this area |
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