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Product Description

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Three Volume Set.

• Feynman's effective classroom style remains intact in these volumes, a valuable work by a remarkable educator.
• The volumes are an edited version of Richard Feynman's lectures, taped and transcribed specifically for the books.
• The three volume commemorative issue is either available hardbound and packaged in a specially designed slipcase, or in a paperbound edition.

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Classic text -- spring for the hardcover if you want yours to last        Rating:

These 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.

For the love of physics ...        Rating:

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.

feynman lectures on physics        Rating:

I 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.

P-rnoPhysics (based mostly on Volume II)        Rating:

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.

It worths        Rating:

The 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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