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The Feynman Lectures on Physics

The Definitive and Extended Edition

By Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, Richard P. Feynman

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| Hardcover | 9780805390452

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This revised edition of Feynman’s legendary lectures includes extensive corrections Feynman and his colleagues received and Caltech approved. This boxed set provides Volumes 1-3 together with Feynman’s Tips on Physics making this the complete and definitive set of The Feynman Lectures on PhysContinue

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This physics course was delivered at prestigious Caltech during academic years 1961-63 by a passionate Nobel laureate, a genius who felt so uneasy with quantum mechanics that he sort of rewrote his own formulation. The final cleaned & trimmed form is by Leighton and Sands. The course covers all the ... (continue)

This physics course was delivered at prestigious Caltech during academic years 1961-63 by a passionate Nobel laureate, a genius who felt so uneasy with quantum mechanics that he sort of rewrote his own formulation. The final cleaned & trimmed form is by Leighton and Sands. The course covers all the basics: mechanics, thermodynamics (first volume), electromagnetism and some continuum mechanics (vol.2), quantum mechanics (vol.3). The special boxed edition includes also a fourth booklet "Feynman's Tips On Physics - A Problem-solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics".
The Lectures can be useful both for undergraduate students as textbook, and as a bedtime reading for experienced physicists.
I already had the separate volumes.
I bought this luxury box set just to appease a fit of bibliomania and to celebrate an era that will never come back. These books always give me a sense of melancholy: young Prof. Feynman, sunny California, the optimistic 60's, a bright future in front of mankind...
If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?
I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms — little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence you will see an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

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