Feynman Lectures

Very nice, thanks!

One of my favorite physics texts. Every couple of years one volume or the other makes it's way to my beside table, and I end up chewing through it again.

George H.

It really is bedtime reading. I 'inherited' the set after the company president retired.

Lots of people are all gaga about Feynman's supposedly wonderful didactic style. IMO, it's overrated.

I've been watching lectures on quantum mechanics given by the Indian Institute of Technology and some of these Indian cats blow him out of the water. A lot less bluster, more humility and detail.

What I find amusing about the IIT circuit design lectures is seeing my early chip designs used as teaching examples ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Well to each his own, I've seen a few of his lectures. Mostly I like reading... that gives me time to think, and scribble equations on the pages. For me, Feynman had this wonderful insight. He'd cut right to the heart of the problem, and make it look simple.

Then some time later I'm trying to reproduce his thinking... and I'd be lost how the "bleep" did he get from here to there.

As an example that may work here, I don't know of any other physics text that does an electro-magnet so clearly. Try section 36-5 here,

George H. (oh Feynman writes Maxwell's equations a little different from other people.)

Well, seems like they must know what they're doing, right? :D

I like the courses on analog electronics that I've seen from IIT, the one with Radakrishna Rao (sp?) Looks like he was giving those kids some challenging exercises.

I'll have to go back and verify, but I believe it's Rao who uses my MC1530 OpAmp design extensively. ...Jim Thompson

I believe so. I think those lectures were from the early to mid 1990s.