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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0201150255
ISBN-13: 9780201150254
Apr 1997
Publisher: Perseus Books
152 pages
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Language: English |
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| Details | | Series: | Helix Books |
| Size | | Length: | 152 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
Here is a further collection of essays by the US's most renowned and celebrated physicist of the second half of the 20th century. . . . Feynman very methodically and lucidly develops the concepts of time dilation, the dependence of an object's mass on its velocity, and the constancy of the speed of light in all reference frames. The book has a very useful introduction by the famous British mathematician Roger Penrose. Excellent drawings, very good index.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Sadanand
While the earlier collection concentrated on what might be considered the stuff of a first-year physics course (with a chapter on quantum mechanics thrown in for spice), this second collection examines the more glamorous side of physics: relativity and space-time. . . . In such a short book, the challenge is not in explaining all the details, but in making the volume readable. And Feynman does this quite effectively. Because the book covers such vast territory, it would be hard to pin it down to a single physics course, but it would make an excellent supplement to a course on modern physics.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Sadanand
The lectures seem somewhat dated. The subject matter--the theory of relativity--is now part of 'classical' physics, having been created at the beginning of the century. But things have happened in the thirty-four years since Feynman gave his lectures. . . . Who should buy and read this book? Alas, I think the answer is no one. The non-scientist will get very little out of these lectures. They were intended for very gifted Caltech undergraduates with some background in mathematics and physics. For a young person with such a background why not get the complete set of lectures? They are difficult, but they can be grown into. Why settle for this poorly edited and incomplete sample? No reason I can think of.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Bernstein
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