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Title: Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Helix Books) by Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, Roger Penrose, Richard Phillips Feynman, Jeffrey Robbins ISBN: 0-201-15025-5 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not-So-Difficult, But Wonderfully Challenging
Comment: "Six Not-So-Easy Pieces" are six selections from the Feynman "Lectures on Physics". They represent not the hardest material to be found in the "Lectures" (and certainly not elsewhere concerning Feymnan's essays or other lectures) but perhaps some of the most thought-provoking and challenging conceptually (although, if you would like a conceptual challenge, check out Feynman's "QED"). Spacetime, Relativity (Special and General), Vectors, Symmetry --- there is no end to the knowledge and unique grasp of physics that Feynman possesses. I recommend this book highly to anyone with the impulse to ask, "Why?"
Rating: 5
Summary: A Challenging Intro to Thinking Physical
Comment: "Six Not-So-Easy Pieces" are six selections from the Feynman "Lectures on Physics". They represent not the hardest material to be found in the "Lectures" (and certainly not elsewhere concerning Feymnan's essays or other lectures) but perhaps some of the most thought-provoking and challenging conceptually (although, if you would like a conceptual challenge, check out Feynman's "QED"). Spacetime, Relativity (Special and General), Vectors, Symmetry --- there is no end to the knowledge and unique grasp of physics that Feynman possesses.
He first introduces the reader to some fundamental that they need in order to begin thinking like a physicist -- specifically, vector algebra, connecting directions with movements in space. This might take a little while for the beginner to work through, but he is careful to show all of the steps geometrically and makes it seem quite clear.
Then he moves on to talk about symmetries physicists know and work with, especially the symmetry where the physics you do is invariant according to your place in space and time. Capping the book off with more abstractly challenging concepts -- special relativity and general relativity, tying ideas of the previous chapters in (vectors and symmetry) he slowly is able to make beginning readers understand aspects of physics difficult even for the amateur physicist.
I recommend this book to any high school student who has had geometry, and to any scientific and non-scientific reader who is curious about the universe.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great lectures, though a bit out of place
Comment: Six not so Easy Pieses is a small anthology of six pieces taken from Feynman's great classic, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which were delivered to Caltech freshman. I would not recommend buying this book unless you have an excellent backround in calculus and how it relates to physics. I have read the first volume of the Lectures, and i will tell you it is nice having this to accompany it, since some of the chapters such as on Relativity merit to be read twice and since the Lectures is so bulky and heavy. There is no way someone can read understand what he's saying without knowing a good amount of math. Its like reading a book in which all the concepts are expressed in Greek. Also, these lectures were given during the middle of course, and he often mentions things which were discussed in previous lectures. The reason it gets a four is because the lectures are great (many great lectures were ommitted though), but it is too short and is out of place. This is NOT a great sequel to Six Easy Lectures, they have practically nothing to do with each other. The perfect sequal to Six Easy Lectures is the whole first volume of the Lectures.
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Title: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Helix Book) by Paul Davies, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0201408252 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: QED by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0691024170 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Edward Hutchings, Ralph Leighton, Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0393316041 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Feynman Lectures On Physics (3 Volume Set) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0201021153 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1970 List Price(USD): $101.10 |
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Title: What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0393320928 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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