From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
Subject: Re: Feynman lectures: problems?
Followup-To: misc.books.technical
Reply-To: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV
Organization: Gainfully unemployed
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 11:39:48 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.222456.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>>I have met a number of engineers who used the Feynmann [sic] Lectures
>>for their physics classes - many at Caltech.  They have claimed
>>that there is a collection of problems (and perhaps solutions)
>>that goes with the books.
>
>I have looked in the US BIP, and there SEEMS to be:
>3 vol paperback
>ditto plus 2 vol of problems
>
>3vol hard back
>ditto plus 2 vol problem
>
>3 vol 'commemorative edition'
>
>Plus individual ISBNs for each of the individual volumes.  What I THINK I
>want is the 3 volume Com Ed, plus the 2 volumes of problems and examples.
>
>Let's hope someone can illuminate this one...

Here's some foot-candles for you, then (-:

When I was at Caltech and using (somewhat sparingly) Feynman (this was from
Fall 1976 to Spring 1978), we also had to buy

	exercises in introductory physics
	robert b. leighton
	rochus e. vogt

	ISBN 0-201-04215-0

The "INTRODUCTION" states:

	These exercises were compiled by the authors for use with Volume 1 of
	The Feynman Lectures in Physics in the first-year introductory physics
	course at the Calfornia Institute of Technology, and they are
	accordingly arranged in the same order as to subject as the Feynman
	Lectures. ...

Along with this book was the more traditional

	Feynman Lectures On Physics
	Exercises/1964
	Volume 2

	ISBN 0-201-02017-3
and
	Feynman Lectures On Physics
	Exercises/1965
	Volume 3

	ISBN 0-201-02019-X

All three titles published by:

	Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
	Reading, Mass. - Palo Alto, California - London, England UK (back then)

The "Volume 2" and "Volume 3" booklets both look identical; i.e., slim
booklet-bound volumes with burgundy covers.  The "exercises in introductory
physics" (e.e. cummings style done on purpose) book is about twice as thick
as the other two put together, and has a red cover.  One can only presume
that there was a previously-extant "Volume 1" in this series, but I never saw
it.  This may have been a by-product of the "modernization" of the Physics
curriculum (introductory level) at Caltech that was being done by the mid-70's;
for example, the Freshman Physics course had pretty much converted over to
using the MIT Introductory Physics Books (Newtonian Mechanics, Vibrations and
Waves, and Special Relativity; all by A. P. French) instead of Feynman Vol. 1.

As for me?  You'd have to pry my Feynmans out of my cold, hard fingers ... (-:
I may never open them again, but having had the priviledge to meet the man a
couple of times, all I can say is that there is nothing quite like the
impression one gets when you meet a person who you know is several sigmas away
from your own relatively-ignoramus 18-year-old self, and he still treated you
with both respect and as an adult.  I recall walking away slack-jawed in utter
amazement.  My friend Fred (crimi@slumni.CCO.Caltech.EDU) got even luckier -
he got to play piano one time in a jam while Feynman played his bongos!

Happy hunting.

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