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April 17,2025
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This has got to be the easiest nobel Laureat to read in history. It is enjoyable from start to finish and once you've completed a particular subject, it is just like he says it will be: you don't understand anymore about physics than you did when you started, except you understand more about what you don't know.
April 17,2025
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These are my daily Bible passages. One every morning and I feel like a renewed soul.
April 17,2025
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It gets a little hard to follow on audibles when he makes mistakes at the end. But he's awesome. Very enjoyable.
April 17,2025
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I think physicists are geeks. Feynman is far too fascinated with obscure physical phenomena for a normal human. But hey, so am I. These lectures have some math in them, but mostly they are just packed with insight. They are a whirlwind tour through some of the most fascinating things about the world.

Now, I don't like most physics books written for a popular audience. These weren't. These were written for physicists who want to take a break from the drudgery of their usual work and look at things they are probably already very familiar with in a way that will leave them thinking deeply about the world again.
April 17,2025
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Feynman is a giant underscored by bongo drums and a keen sense of reality.
April 17,2025
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Just started, but I've never seen a physics book like this before. The intent is to make things clear and bring across the beauty of science and questioning. I'll follow up when finished, but it's like wine. You might take awhile to finish this one.
April 17,2025
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Thanks to that book, it allowed me to understand magnetostatics and the application of that magnetic field of a solenoid. It also helped me to understand the applications of Gauss’ Law, Ampère’s law and the law of Biot and Savart. I highly recommend it!
April 17,2025
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Good pandemic reading, though his style and approach are unconventional. I especially liked his approach to quantum and made it clearer than other texts of the time.
April 17,2025
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Really excellent, what a gifted teacher. I listened to it on tape, though, which I wouldn't recommend unless you are really familiar with the material (I wasn't). It was neat to hear his actual voice (and strong New York accent) teaching the lessons (++), but you can't see what he's writing on the blackboard (---) and that naturally makes it hard to follow everything he's saying.
Unlike Dr. Hawking's 'brief history' books, this is not for the layperson. These are his CalTech lectures from the 1960s for his physics students. He's assuming you know calculus, basic chemistry, and some other technical and mathematical subjects if you are taking his course.
April 17,2025
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This book Provides some wonderful and accessible explanations. This is not a good standalone physics textbook but a great accompaniment to one.
April 17,2025
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I didn't learn about this wonderful set of lectures until a year or so after starting my graduate work in engineering. As such, I egotistically assumed that I probably already had a firm grasp on practically everything in the three volume set. After all, it's supposed to be a Freshman-level introduction to Physics, right? No. Wrong. Very, very wrong! Feynman's perspective and his intuitive insight to physics was unlike anything I had ever been exposed to. In fact, it is probably unlike anything that has ever occurred because Feynman was one-of-a-kind. As it turned out, I learned far more about physics from Feynman's "introduction" than I had learned in 4-5 years of course work up until that time.

Although the topics discussed in Feynman's "Red Books" are the same as those discussed in the typical three semester series of introductory Physics, each lesson is presented at a much higher conceptual and philosophical level. Remember, this is Feynman we are talking about; one of the greatest physicists of all time. His idea of an introduction to physics presupposes a mastery of at least one year of calculus and a solid semester of differential equations. Thus, any student lacking these prerequisites is encouraged to look elsewhere for an introductory treatment of the subject.

On the other hand, students in possession of these prerequisites won't find a better overview of physics anywhere. Feynman's intuitive understanding and insightful perspective of physics is absolutely incredible. In fact, it may be completely unparalleled. In this three volume set on physics, one is frequently rewarded with a glimpse into the mind of a true genius. What could be better than that?

I will go so far as to say that a serious student of physics can obtain a complete theoretical education of the subject by studying (and understanding) no more than the following: 1. Feynman's Lectures (a 3 volume set), 2. the Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau and Lifshitz (a 10 volume set), and 3. the numerous mathematical concepts that are referenced by each volume of these two works, which are available from a study of Arfken, or even better, Morse and Feshbach. I am certainly not implying that this is easy, since a true mastery of all of these texts would probably require 5-7 years for a very good student.
April 17,2025
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habe mal den ersten band gelesen, hat eine ganze weile gedauert und habe auch nicht komplett alles immer 100% gecheckt aber war sehr interessant
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