Feynman Lectures, So great?

codelieb

The FLP lectures were never filmed or videotaped; They were tape-recorded and photographed -- it was from these materials that Feynman's co-authors Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands wrote and illustrated the book. The tape recordings are sold by Basic Books on CD - you can find them on sale at Amazon, for example.

golanor

Thanks, I guess i'll just try and give another chance to the books.

drkersh

¿When do you plan to release the book of exercises? Not the tips, the new one.

codelieb

The soonest it could be published, according to the publisher's schedule, would be July 2013. We are still working on the figures and layout but hope to be ready by then. Beyond that, I can not say; It's not really possible to predict exactly when it will be published, because there are many mitigating circumstances outside our control.

0xDEADBEEF

The Feynman Lectures are great books no doubt. Everything said in them is correct and intuitive, but there lies their greatest weakness. They don't teach you well how to do exercises. Feynman tried to avoid formula symbols, and may have a good explanation when other books might only drop a model and do some calculations on it. With the usual books you have less of a feeling that you understand what is happening, but you get on the problem solving path faster and you learn to fill in the gaps by yourself, which is more important IMHO. I don't know anyone who actually recommends the Feynman lectures as the main book for the first few semesters of physics, but quite a few who said it helped them to get the big picture when they read them later. So I would recommend to read them either before you take physics courses, or sometime after the fifth or sixth semester. But at some point you should read them. They'll make you a better physicist.

Evo

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