- Hardcover
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 2 edition (29 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0805390456
- ISBN-13: 978-0805390452
- Product Dimensions: 30 x 22.8 x 9.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 294,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The revised edition of Feynman's legendary lectures includes extensive corrections and updates collated by Feynman and his colleagues. A new foreword by Kip Thorne, the current Richard Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, discusses the relevance of the new edition to today’s readers. This boxed set also includes Feynman’s new Tips on Physics — the four previously unpublished lectures that Feynman gave to students preparing for exams at the end of his course. Thus, this 4 — volume set is the complete and definitive edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Packaged in a specially designed slipcase, this 4 — volume set provides the ultimate legacy of Feynman’s extraordinary contribution to students, teachers, researches, and lay readers around the world.
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Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942. Despite his youth, he played an important part in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II. Subsequently, he taught at Cornell and at the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Sin-Itero Tomanaga and Julian Schwinger, for his work in quantum electrodynamics.
Dr. Feynman won his Nobel Prize for successfully resolving problems with the theory of quantum electrodynamics. He also created a mathematical theory that accounts for the phenomenon of superfluidity in liquid helium. Thereafter, with Murray Gell-Mann, he did fundamental work in the area of weak interactions such as beta decay. In later years Feynman played a key role in the development of quark theory by putting forward his parton model of high energy proton collision processes.
Beyond these achievements, Dr. Feynman introduced basic computational techniques and notations into physics, above all, the ubiquitous Feynman diagrams that, perhaps more than any other formalism in recent scientific history, have changed the way in which basic physical processes are conceptualized and calculated.
Feynman was a remarkable effective educator. Of all his numerous awards, he was especially proud of the Oersted Medal for Teaching which he won in 1972. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, originally published in 1963, were described by a reviewer in Scientific American as "tough, but nourishing and full of flavor. After 25 years it is the guide for teachers and for the best of beginning students." In order to increase the understanding of physics among the lay public, Dr. Feynman wrote The Character of Physical Law and Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. He also authored a number of advanced publications that have become classic references and textbooks for researchers and students.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Box Set,
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This review is from: The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Definitive and Extended Edition (Hardcover)
This set of books is ideal for Physics students at University and beyond but it might also help younger students because of the easy conversational style and the many descriptive passages that sum up each topic before the maths comes in. It really does feel like an older brother helping you get up to speed rather than a book written by a stuffy academic trying to impress other academics.Buy this from Amazon US - it costs about £64, a saving of £30! Rip off Britain.
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THE book on physics,
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This review is from: The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Definitive and Extended Edition (Hardcover)
Richard Feynman was once voted "The smartest man in the world" by OMNI magazine and it shows. I have never come across a collection so detailed and yet so excellently explained. When I was doing my degree, this book was constantly by my side and whilst some topics covered in the third volume (mostly dealing with Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics) have been usurped somewhat by time, the core works on electromagnetism and Newtonian mechanics stand firm in the first two volumes.Note however, that this is not a popular science book. If you have never studied physics, it will be a lot of work to understand it all - having said that though, it is much more accessible than any textbook. The book itself is beautiful - good quality hardback with silver leaf text adorning the front of each of the three volumes. Overall I'd say: 1) Buy it if you are a physics undergraduate - It will help your understanding and application of some of your lecture material. I know this from experience. 2) If you have a serious interest in physics you could do a lot worse than buying these books. 3) If you're looking for a popular science book, or merely have a casual interest in physics, you'd probably be better with something like "In search of Schrodinger's cat" by John Gribbin, or "QED" or "Six easy pieces" both by Feynman.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Classic books from a scientific and pedagogical genius,
By A.J. (Washington D.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Definitive and Extended Edition (Hardcover)
The chapters are not very concise and it takes time to read them, but the content is superb and offers brilliant explanations of essentially all aspects of fundamental physics. A volume to slowly enjoy over many years.
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