Classical FLP Original Course Handouts at The Feynman Lectures Website

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The discussion highlights the significant contribution of Dennis Oberg, a former student of Richard Feynman, who donated a comprehensive collection of 744 pages of classroom handouts to The Feynman Lectures Website. These materials, which include laboratory guidelines, experiments, and assessments, were scanned by Ralph Leighton in 2006 and were not published online until 2012 due to initial plans for a commercial product. The handouts have remained popular, prompting efforts to improve their presentation using deep-zoom image technology. A new, more accessible version is now available on the Caltech website, while the original version remains accessible to preserve existing links from other sites. Additionally, there is curiosity about how many problems from the "Homework and Tests" section were included in the published exercise books, with confirmation that many were indeed incorporated.
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Hello, everyone.

The first large collection of FLP-related content posted at The Feynman Lectures Website was 744 pages of FLP classroom handouts (including laboratory guidelines, descriptions of experiments, homework, quizzes and exams, lecture summaries and outlines) donated by one of Feynman's former undergraduate students, Dennis Oberg. Dennis loaned his set of handouts to Ralph Leighton for him to copy, back in 2006.

Ralph scanned all 744 pages, one at a time on a flatbed scanner (a big job!). Since at first we had hoped to include the material in a commercial product we did not publish it online at the FL Website until 2012. A year later we published the online edition of FLP, and shortly after that the FL Website moved to Caltech, changing its address from "www.feynmanlectures.info" to "www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu."

The 'FLP Original Course Handouts' was the most popular material posted at the old .info website, and remains very popular today at Caltech. However, the original presentation, which was generated by (now defunct) Microsoft FrontPage leaves a lot to be desired. I wanted to do better justice to the material and make it more accessible. So, for the past few months I've been working on a new presentation based on the deep-zoom image technology we currently use to present the FLP lecture photos and Feynman's FLP notes. The new presentation can be found here:

(A link can also be found on the homepage of the FL Website.)

For the time being I am leaving the original presentation in place as part of the /info section of the FL website (which is a copy of the old .info site, as it was before we published the online edition of FLP) because Google informs me there are several hundred links from other websites to the pages of the original presentation, and I don't want to break them, though in the future I might redirect those links to the new presentation.

Best regard,
Mike Gottlieb
Editor, The Feynman Lectures on Physics New Millennium Edition
www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
 
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I'm curious what proportion of the problems in the "Homework and Tests" section made it into "Exercises for the Feynman lectures on Physics" (which I sadly don't have to hand outside of term time)?
 
I don't know the answer to that question offhand, but for sure, many of the homework and test problems assigned to Feynman's students were incorporated into the exercise books published by Caltech.
 
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