6.27.2005
Six Easy Pieces
by Richard Feynman, 138pgs, paperback
Amazon site
Official Grade: B-
I suppose this work be a good book if you were scientifically inclined, but not a physicist by trade because it would give you a really nice way to think about basic physical theories. But its not worth your time if you're an actual physicist or even physicist student because this book is totally qualitative and that is annoying as heck. Might as well just go buy yourself the actual Feynman lectures that these 6 chapters were stripped from anyway because then you'll get the meat of the physics (I mean, come on, you can't imagine Feynman going light on Caltech physics undergrads can you?) Basically was this book is about is 6 chapters of Feynman adeptly explaining various elementary physics concepts and also linking physics to other sciences. (What Rutherford said is true, All science is either physics or stamp collecting.)
Amazon site
Official Grade: B-
I suppose this work be a good book if you were scientifically inclined, but not a physicist by trade because it would give you a really nice way to think about basic physical theories. But its not worth your time if you're an actual physicist or even physicist student because this book is totally qualitative and that is annoying as heck. Might as well just go buy yourself the actual Feynman lectures that these 6 chapters were stripped from anyway because then you'll get the meat of the physics (I mean, come on, you can't imagine Feynman going light on Caltech physics undergrads can you?) Basically was this book is about is 6 chapters of Feynman adeptly explaining various elementary physics concepts and also linking physics to other sciences. (What Rutherford said is true, All science is either physics or stamp collecting.)
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