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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 530 EAN: 9780201021158 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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  - These books are amazing!I love the set! I'm a grad student in Physics and these are a great reference to have. Rating: - Revisiting The Feynman LecturesI loved the Feynmann Lecture series when I was an undergraduate student, but I sold them after three years of using them. Years later, I have seen the Commemorative Issue on the shelve of bookstores again and I could not resist the urge to buy it again. It vividly brings back wonderful memories of a time long gone, and the commemorative issue is better (hardcover) than the original (paperback). I strongly recommend this issue to anyone who wishes to learn physics from a master narrator. Rating:  - Looks good on your shelf, but please read instructions before using...This famous 3 volume set is best used in one of the following ways: 1. You are a student who has already taken university calculus based physics and are interested in another view of the subject by one of the modern masters of physics 2.. You are a professional who is reading the texts for intellectual stimulation; e.g., you are a curious engineer 3. You are taking university physics and want to use these books for additional readings to understand important concepts and the big picture If you are planning to use these books as your primary textbook source to learn the basics of physics, I agree with Feynman that these lectures are a failure. Better textbooks such as Alonso and Finn already exist that cover the standard freshman physics faire. However, the Feynman lectures are great to flip through, scan, skip around, read a page here and there. There are amazing deep insights sprinkled throughout. As an aside, the very serious student of physics should try and dig up the 5 volume Berkeley Physics Course to seek a deep and mathematically rigorous introduction to physics. Volume 2 on E&M by Purcell is still in print and still in use but the other volumes on Mechanics, Waves, Quantum, and Statistical Physics are harder to find. The MIT physics series written by French (mechanics, vibration and waves, quantum, special relativity) are also quite good. Rating: - InspiringI am a medical specialist in Australia. That means my knowledge on physics is at high school level only - i.e. faily limited. Yet somehow I manage to understand what he is trying to explain! I am also able to appreciate the way he marvels at the beauty of the universe. The way he repeatedly reminds us that there are lots of things about the world we don't know or understand highlights the mystery of the universe; and yet we can understand those that we can, and he guides you to do so - this highlights another mystery: our intellect! Reading it is a unique EXPERIENCE. I can't help but to give an example: in just two chapters, he explains lucidly how the equation E=mc2 is derived and what it means, and one actually can follow him. Amazing. Rating: - Recommended if you have the calculus - if you don't then some of Feynman's other books are more accessibleThe first part of each lecture is usually fairly descriptive. Feynman will set up some kind of problem or scenario, and talk you through it. He'll often latch onto something you take for granted - for example the phrase '60 miles per hour', then proceed to dissect it right down to its fundamentals, often humorously as in his discussion between a cop and a lady pulled over for speeding. As each chapter proceeds, the level of math required to follow the discussion ramps up. Only four pages from the light-hearted discussion between the cop and the motorist, we suddenly launch in to 'A short table of derivatives' and start to consider distance as an integral. Both this, and the numerical solution of planetary motion that follows later on in he chapter, would be incomprehensible to someone who hadn't already done the math - or who wasn't working through a calculus course alongside the book. For relative beginners, the text descriptions at the start of each chapter are interesting and thought-provoking, but you're bound to get lost part-way through every chapter. I'd recommend some of Feynman's other books for a more 'popular' audience over the lectures. For readers with strong enough math, it's time to tear into a set that approaches physics from a different direction to conventional textbooks. |
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