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Summary: The Chief explains it *all* to you.
Review: And you'll even understand how the scientific process works,
to boot. Rocket science books don't get any better.
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Summary: Not as good as the Feynman Lectures
Review: As a physics graduate student, I find this book not as inspiring and enlightening as I expected. The gravitation chapter is the best. The quantumn mechanics chapter is not clear. Feynman gave some interesting examples, but some examples are either too deep or too simple. Maybe this series is good for non-physicists. Or probably the audio version is better. That's all I have to say about this book.
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Summary: Three Thumbs up
Review: Can someone with freshman college physics understand Professor Feynmans theoretical physics? This cassette really combines well everything from Newton's Laws to quantum theory to Einsteinian gravity to the very mathematical (yet not too much) nature of physical law. The answer is with this two tape cassette (which I purchased and prefer) a definite yes. In spite of the fact that many of the readers aren't theoretical phyicists, this book really brings into focus "hard" physics. I bought this set hoping to benefit from Feynman's more humanistic teaching style and I was pleased with the results.I highly recommend this read (listen).
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Summary: I wish I could have met Richard
Review: Even though I am not sure he would want to speak with me. Amazing personality, great brain, talented... The book is amazing just like all the other books. For me as a non-native English speaker, it was a bit demanding to read it, but it was definitely worth the trouble.
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Summary: I read this book maybe once a month
Review: Every time I return to this book I pick up on more of Feynman's explanations. From almost beginning to understand angular momentum, to getting a feel for gravity, and how many laws have been integrated. For a novice at physics but with a keen interest this book gives an excellent background and, for me, is a joy to read each time, I can almost hear Feynman making his lectures and sharing jokes with his students. Each time I come away from reading this book I find myself pondering more about various aspects of physics and get a clearer idea of other books to buy to continue my current hobby of understanding the way the universe works just a little better (hopefully anyway :)
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Summary: Explanations of physics without the complex math.
Review: Feynman has written an excellent book here that I think is most appreciated by people that have a solid understanding of physics before they begin to read this book. I've heard some say that Feynman can explain things with extreme clarity to someone that has no knowledge of physics. I couldn't agree more. But at certain points in this book, Feynman begins to venture off and begin discussing things that are relatively complex and I can't say are really intended for people that don't have a solid background in physics. I personally found myself either thinking his lecture was either too simple (or explained extremely well) or too complex. All in all, I'm not sure who Feynman had in mind for an audience when he gave his lecture, but I would imagine it's for the person that has a solid background in physics and wishes to indulge in some physics "brain-candy" to think about some extremely interesting concepts. Good book. Surprisingly easy read. Very little complex math. ...
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Summary: incomparable overview of physics for general audience
Review: Feynman was a genius (not in the colloquial sense of being pretty smart and very successful, but in the sense of being smarter than almost everyone alive and being able to see the world in a new and interesting way). At least up to some fairly high level, the more you know about physics the more impressed you'll be by these lectures (which I wish they'd put on on DVD -- I'd love to own them). He manages to communicate some essential ideas so clearly that you can easily underestimate the depth of the ideas. I first saw these lectures in high school and was dazzled by them, but I was even more dazzled when I saw them again sitting in the old physics tank at Stanford (as a Ph.D. student).
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Summary: Audio Book - not original recording
Review: Ignore my rating. I have not listened to this tape. There are excellent Book&CD packs available with RPF's lectures. This however is only a spoken version of the book. It is not RPF. Thus, it was not what I was after.
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Summary: Great physics audio edutainment ..
Review: July 8, 1999 I would like to take a minute to thank Audio Scholar for abridging this novel to audio. I much prefered having a professional speaker narrate the book as previous Richard Feyman products I have purchased have really lacked in sound quality (they were not Audio Scholar products). I thoroughly enjoyed the abridged audio novel as did my 18 month old son who gets to listen to them to as his bedtime stories. I would like to encourage Audio Scholar to produce more of these types of edutainment audio programs on tape or CD. In many instances I wouldn't mind seeing the programs extend to 4 tapes or CD's. I love listening to scientific books on my way to work and also love to share them with my 18 month old son as his bedtime stories. Actually I initially started buying them for my son and then got hooked on them myself. Why should my 18 month old son get all the good stuff to listen too! My budget for this type of audio edutainment has sky rocketed from $100 a year to $1,000 a year due to the high level of quality of the Audio Scholar work. The more science and physics books abridged the better. I would love to see the following subjects abrigded to audio for distribution through Amazon.com. Maths, sciences, physics, astrophysics, geology, any and all space related topics, gravity, unified field theory, electromagnetics, electronics, microproccessor design, optics, micro-optics, electro-optics, light and the theory there of, satellites, satellite orbital mechanics and related theory, engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering. I would also like to encourage Audio Scholar to pursue the rights to abridge Michio Kaku's books to audio as well. I do not have time in my busy daily schedule to read very much, but do I have five hours a day to listen and learn. If you make it I will support it. Arnold D Veness
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Summary: A Glimpse into the Mind of a Great Scientist
Review: Not the usual Feynman, but certainly Feynman at his best. We see what he thinks about, how he views the world and its physics.
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